Hi Ana

I missed an earilier question I think. You did not say which blogging 
service you are using. Here are a couple examples from my blogspot 
stuff.

When I start to edit, everything is in Compose mode and I can just 
paste links in as is copied out of the address bar, alt d in Explorer. 
Here are a couple examples

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1

The provenance of this link:

http://robstickablog.blogspot.com/

If I decide I want to get fancy and for instance put in something more 
descriptive to be seen by blog readers, I can go to the EDIT HTML link.

This is what first of the two links above look like with Blogger 
handling the HTML production

<a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1">
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1</a>

<a href="http://robstickablog.blogspot.com/">Rob Sticka Blog/</a>



Here is the link for the entry where I put in the items above which 
should now reflect the example for the second one.

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2010/09/from-bowels-of-high-school.html


I usually deal in Compose mode but your mileage may vary.

Hoep this helps

DoreneC

-----Original Message-----
From: Ana G <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 9:10 am
Subject: [VICUG-L] Hyperlink Help

Hi All,
 
I'm still working on inserting hyperlinks into my blog posts, and while 
I seem to have the code syntax right, I'm obviously missing some 
important minor thing because most of my links are broken, so I'm 
posting here for ideas about what I may be doing wrong.
 
The code I'm using is
 
&lt;a href="URL"&gt;text&lt;/a&gt;
 
I get the URL's by visiting the sites and copying to the clipboard. 
sometimes I paste between the quotes directly into the post. sometimes 
I copy to a Word doc first. I don't notice one method being more likely 
to succeed or fail than the other. I make sure there are no spaces or 
hard returns between the URL and the quotes. the URL's are long, so I 
don't know if that makes a difference.
 
I don't know what else to try. In all cases, I was able to enter on the 
link, but I got an error message saying the page was not found. In many 
cases, The link worked just fine after I erased the URL between the 
quotes and pasted it in again.
 
any tips or caveats that may help. I'm using Blogger if that matters.
 
thanks.
 
Ciao

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