A comment about creating links

[Aussie_Don]

Maybe it's just my "inner geek" showing, but I've noticed that most links in people's posts are of the form:

http://www.google.com.au/

Are the rabble aware that it is actually easy to create a more descriptive link?
As in:

Google

Both of the above are links to Google Australia, but I'd suggest that the second looks better.
So, how did I do the second one?

1. Find the link that you want in a different window or tab in your web browser
   
2. Type the text that you want to have visible for the link
   
3. Highlight the link text by dragging the mouse over it
   
4. Click on the link Icon in the compose message tools
   
5. Insert the URL into the box provided -- what I actually do is to use copy and paste
   
   1. Go to the tab or window where the page you want to link is displayed
   2. Highlight the the URL in the navigation window of your browser (Most browsers will
      display the URL by default, if it isn't there, you should be able to add this to the
      toolbar by using the browser's options menu.)
      
   3. Copy ( Ctrl/C or butterfly/C on a Mac)
   4. Paste in the URL box ( Ctrl/V or butterfly/V)
      
   
   

Voila!!



Note that this does not actually conceal the URL, as the browsers that I'm familiar with will show the
destination URL when you put your mouse on the link. Just makes things look a bit neater and potentially
gives a clearer statement of what you are trying to show. The improved link that I provided at the start
of this post is still clearly a link since it is in the "link style". (Underlined -- might be better if links were a
different colour, but it still looks like a link)

I hope that this is useful to others.

And to you, Jock, a big thank you for asking for more detail -- I hope that this is useful to you.


-Don

And a couple of definitions -- Ctrl/C is a way of showing the key on the keyboard with the letters
Ctrl (for control) printed on the keycap and the letter C key -- so that means press the two keys together
(like shift - c to get C)

URL - means a Uniform Resource Locator -- AKA web address

butterfly key -- I'm not really sure what to call this, but on an Apple computer the key that I'd call a Control key
has a funny symbol on it This is a link to a picture and description of the key - it is used like the Ctrl key on a PC

Note that I'd normally use Greater-than/Less-than around the key cap names, but I'll admit that I'm stumped--
there is no way to get the display system to just display the characters represented by HTML codes and the
characters just disappear when I tried to use them