thank you all! Greg's answer was just what I needed. Thank you so much, Greg.
:-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Greg Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > Just click this at the bottom of your email screen (you may have to hover > over the + sign next to the paper clip): > > [image: Inline image 1] > > It will open up a dialog and the rest is history! > > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:07 PM, jill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think what you mean is how to make a link in an HTML document (website or >> email) be labelled something other than the URL, right? So on a webpage the >> link might say "click here" instead of >> "http://example.com/some/stuff/tothe/page.html"; but when you click on "click >> here" it takes you to that page. >> >> That can be done with HTML. So <a >> href="http://example.com/some/stuff/tothe/page.html";>click here</a> would >> accomplish the above example. >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html >> >> - Jill >> >> >> O >> n 2014-05-08 06:23, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> > >> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bryan O'Neal < >> > [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Most services have an API. Even x.co has one. >> > > On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > >> ​What is the context of the use case, website you are creating, or save >> > >> typing (CLI)? If it is a website, is it static (html only) or dynamic >> > >> (PHP, Python, ASP.NET)? Where is the site hosted, locally (you), ISP >> > >> (Cox, CentruryLink, etc), hosting company (Hostmonster, GoDaddy, etc). >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> > >>> welll, that's not quite what I meant. >> > >>> >> > >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> >> > >>> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham >> > >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >> > >>>> >> > >>>>> On 2014-05-07 12:44, Michael Havens wrote: >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>>> How do I I condense long urls ? You know, the 'click here' where the >> > >>>>>> 'here' is a link to your address. >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> If you meant "I want to link to http://www.giantitp.com/ >> >> > >>>>> forums/showthread.php?t=59834 (silly post about the Beige Dragon) but >> > >>>>> the giantitp link is a whole lot to type. I'd rather use something >> > >>>>> like >> > >>>>> http://crow202.org/22 ," then you would use a URL shortener. There >> > >>>>> are a bunch of them. bit.ly and goo.gl are popular IIRC. These >> > >>>>> things usually end up giving you " http://goo.gl/654321 ", and if you >> > >>>>> go there, the server there looks up 654321 in a huge table and gives >> > >>>>> you a >> > >>>>> 301 redirect to http://example.com/a/really/huge/long/location/ >> . >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> I wrote my own because it was a fairly easy thing to do, and all the >> > >>>>> extant publicly-usable URL shorteners almost certainly use tracking >> > >>>>> cookies >> > >>>>> and/or piles of JS garbage. You probably don't have a webhost to >> > >>>>> put a URL >> > >>>>> shortener on though. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> -- >> > >>>>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> >> > >>>>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> > >>>>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >> > >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> > >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >>>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>> >> > >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> James >> > >> >> > >> *Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-h-dugger/15/64b/74a/>* >> > >> >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- >> > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------- >> > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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