Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Linking To Words Within A Post

Here is your text relating to the dolphin article:

"as the ones who rescued the swimmers in New Zealand".

Here is your link:


http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1349802004

This is perfectly acceptable, but with the tools in Blogger it is easy to make it look nicer and easier to check out.

Method 1:
"as the ones who rescued the swimmers in New Zealand".

Read the full story.

(a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1349802004")Read the full story.(/a) The () will be <> of course.

Method 2:

"as the ones who rescued the swimmers in New Zealand".

"as the ones who (a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1349802004")rescued the swimmers(/a) in New Zealand".

Here you use key words to link to the story without interupting the flow of your writing. Many bloggers prefer this method and use the former when this one seems awkward for some reason.

Links are made the same way as sidebar links:

1. Write your post.
2. Paste the link you want to use. Put it at the end of the post.
3. Decide what method you wish to use when linking.
4. Copy the link.
5. Highlight the words you want to associate the link with.
6. Click on the green insert link button in the toolbar.
7. Paste in the link.
8. Click ok
9. Save the post 'as draft'.
10. Re open the post to edit.
11. Click on preview in the upper right toolbar.
12. Click on the link and see if it works.
13. Click the back button to return to your work.
14. If the link works delete the link you posted in #2.
15. Publish Post.


Gale - you posted essentially the same material to Whale Tales2 and Our Photoblog. This is called 'cross posting'. I will cross post this tutorial to The Demo Blog.

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