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#1

Bruce posted a few good tips in the General Forum last Sunday, but they are starting to get lost in the thread drift. I thought I’d start a thread here that hopeful will stay on topic.

Tip #1

Would you like to make your an image you post also be a clickable link? Here’s how to do it

[url=www.ectma.org]http://www.ectma.org/logo2.gif[/url]

Will produce this…

Through experimenting I found two things that differ from the old site.

1 - In the URL tag you no longer use quotes. Be sure to put the link URL inside the first URL tag after the equal sign.

2 - DO NOT use IMG tags in the forum. Pictures will not display if you use the tags.

#2

I know I am thick with this stuff but that escapes me.

How do I make my upside down logo (http://www.rcs-rc.com/pics/Logos/chatlogo.gif)
into a clickable link to http://rcs-rc.com/ please?

#3

Tony Walsham said:

I know I am thick with this stuff but that escapes me.

How do I make my upside down logo (http://www.rcs-rc.com/pics/Logos/chatlogo.gif)
into a clickable link to http://rcs-rc.com/ please?

Huummm…

#4

Tony Walsham said: I know I am thick with this stuff but that escapes me.

Tony - This will work in a message, but not in your profile as the tags are treated just a bit differently. In a forum message body it would be…

[url=www.rcs-rc.com] http://www.rcs-rc.com/pics/Logos/chatlogo.gif [/url]

Will give you this…

(http://www.rcs-rc.com/pics/Logos/chatlogo.gif)

Tip #2 (copied from Bruce’s post)

If you want a clickable link in your profile signature it’s just a little different. You need the IMG tags like this…

[URL=www.[rcs-rc.com](http://rcs-rc.com/)] [img]http://www.rcs-rc.com/pics/Logos/chatlogo.gif [/img] [/url]

Thanks to Bruce Chandler for working out how to do this in your profile and how to make the code display show what he did.

#5

Nope.
Thanks for trying.
It shows as being linked but when I click on it the website does not open.

I get

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

I tried it with and without spaces. No difference.

#6

Tony,

The colon is missing in your url after the http. It should look like this…http://rcs-rc.com

#7

Fixed it thanks. I had to put www.rcs-rc.com instead of http://rcs-rc.com and no spaces between brackets.

#8

Right - the http:// screws up the interpreter and I mistakenly erased the www. The spaces I just copied from Bruce’s post. Not sure if they matter or not.

#9

OK. Just tried it sans spaces. The spaces do NOT matter.

#10

Good Deal. Thanks for asking me to do this 'cause I figured out some more stuff in the process.

#11

My brain hurts even thinking about how to work out this stuff. :wink: