I see some people put cool links in the messages they post. How can I do the same ?
It is actually is nt as difficult as black magic. Again you need to know a very little HTML to accomplish this task.
Let's say that you want to place a link to http://www.yahoo.com in your posting. All you need to do is to slap the following HTML code into, wher you want this link to show up. Here is the code :
<a href=http://www.yahoo.com>http://www.yahoo.com</a>
which will generate the link as follows:
http://www.yahoo.com
couple of notes we need to make here
1. If you click on the link above, you will see that it will pop itself open on the same window. Here it is not a big deal, but think about freeride, you are traversing thru few screens before you find that posting, and click, your screen is gone. You may enrage your fellow freeriders. So, what is the best way to do it ? Easy ! Open it up in a new window. How ? here is how:
<a href=http://www.yahoo.com target=_new >http://www.yahoo.com</a>
will generate the link looking exactly the same as above:
http://www.yahoo.com
but when you click it (go ahead click it now), you will see that yahoo.com will pop open in a new window. Black magic ! Right ? Answer is "wrong !". See the little phrase "target=_new" different from the first code we introduced, it provides this new window open functionality.
2. Second note has nothing to do with the functionality but just for the cosmetics. Let's say you do not want the readers to see the ugly, computer goobledy-gook looking http://www.yahoo.com but instead you want them to see My Favorite Site phrase and when clicked you want them to see www.yahoo.com Okay ? how are we going to do this ? That is simple too. here is the code for it:
<a href=http://www.yahoo.com target=_new>My Favorite Site</a>
which will generate
My Favorite Site
Easy. Isn't it ?
you can close this window and any others popped up in the process as well and go back to your normal activity