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Special thanks to Firestarter 5 for showing me how to hyperlink.
Labels: Writing habits
posted by Writeprocrastinator at 4:44 PM
"Cormac Brown" is my pen name. I'm an up-and-slumming writer in the city of Saint Francis, and I'm following in the footsteps of Hammett...minus the TB and working for the Pinkerton Agency. I've had stories posted on Flashing In the Gutters, Powder Burn Flash, Six Sentences, Astonishing Adventures Magazine, Crooked Magazine, Needle Magazine, Dark Valentine Magazine, and Beat To A Pulp.
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When you're writing up your post in Blogger, instead of trying to add the actual address itself, use a hyperlink instead. It's insanely simple. Here's how:
When you're typing in the Blogger template, at the top of the box should be half a dozen little symbols, such as a small b for bold, an i for italics, a capital T with a small coloured box beside it for using different colours for the letters you type, and so on.
Now if you want add a link to some other page, (first, it helps if you have your blogger page open and the page that you want people to go to when they click this link) type in anything you want such as "Click Here" or "See This Page", or basically, anything you want. Go to the page that you want people to link to and right click on the address and select COPY. Go back to your Blogger template and HIGHLITE the word or words or entire sentence you want to use as the hyperlink. Once you've done that, look to the top of the Blogger box for what looks like a small planet with a chain link overtop of it. It should be to the right of the capital T with the small coloured box at its base.
Click the small icon with the planet and the chain link. A box should pop up that says Enter a URL. In that box is a white line with http:// already highlighted in blue.
If you right click on that white line, and select PASTE, the address of that other site should appear on that white line.
Click OK
The pop-up box will go away, and the word/words/sentence you highlighted on the Blogger template should be highlighted in blue. Click anywhere within the Blogger screen where you're typing and the blue highlight will go away, but the word/words/sentence you highlighted to begin with should now be blue in colour.
You've just created a hyperlink!
I generally back up ... but it's when I haven't done a backup in a while that my hard drive fries. Talk to the loot fairy about finding our lost files, OK?
Firestarter5,
Thank you very, very, much. I don't like to make people cut n' paste, but I don't like how the blog goes lopsided if you have a link that takes up more than a full line.
Beth,
"but it's when I haven't done a backup in a while that my hard drive fries."
I don't know what it is about Windows that makes it proportionally vulnerable to how far you've gotten in a project. It's almost as if there's something that tells the computer to crash when you write too many pages.
"Talk to the loot fairy about finding our lost files, OK?"
The Loot Fairy won't talk to me, she says I haven't submitted enough queries to even hold a conversation with her.
wp, that is so heartbreaking. oy vey, the agida. this is why I've become ocd about my usb drive. everyone must have one, period, period, period.
I like the way wp posts links. they are most original and very him :)
I'm impressed that he reset the link! The WP learned something yesterday!
"wp, that is so heartbreaking. oy vey, the agida. this is why I've become ocd about my usb drive. everyone must have one, period, period, period."
Katie,
Come to think of it, you know what? This has become my number one nightmare, usurping the ever popular "yes, the homework is due today and we have a suprise test."
Thank you for your other post, but it was Firestarter5.
Beth,
"I'm impressed that he reset the link! The WP learned something yesterday!"
I learn something new everyday ; )
Wait 'til I make it to the John Carpenter stage, then I can stop learning and rest on my as...er, laurels.
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