How to post links on the new forum set up.

[sailorgirl]

I have cut and pasted this from Alberts current thread. I'm posting it here because several folks have asked me how to do this. This way it will be up front and easy to find. Again, thank you myadia for figuring out a way to post links cleanly on the new forum set up.

Myadia when you get a chance explain to me how to post the links so clean. I found how to do the whole link but it's so long and messy.

I always just manually type my links in (I never understood how to do them using the system button).

For example, the green color characters are the code and you just copy your hyperlink and type a name label for the link: [url=yourhyperlink]YourName[/url]

Also to post links to a complete Belga gallery of pictures(not a blank page), if you are looking at a picture and you want to post a link to all the pictures in that series, just click on the hyperlink next to the word COVERAGES (see the blue highlight portion in this pic1). That link (ALBERT II MONACO) is the set of 9 pics I posted earlier from Albert’s trip today. Sometimes there are different sets from different photographers. This picture has a link that states: VISIT DU PRINCE DE MONACO. If you click on it, you’ll get a gallery of 22 pictures. Also, after you do a search, there may be a list of gallery for that search a the bottom of the left side on the screen under "Related coverages" as in this picture, then you just click on it and then copy the hyperlink for posting here.

Then you just copy the hyperlinks of the gallery into your code I explained above. So, for the gallery of 22 pictures, you would type in the code below. No spaces though, I added the beginning space in front of url so you can see the code. Of course, you can copy and paste in the hyperlink:
[ url=http://picture.belga.be/belgapicture/editorial/all/coverage/1349276.html]BelgaGallery22[/url]

This is what it looks like once you type it in correctly without the beginning space: BelgaGallery22

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i don't know how it works on other computers, but i link by going to the address at the top (http part) of page or story you want to post, right clicking my mouse, this brings up a box that has..... cut..copy...paste....delete. i right click COPY. (it should highlight to show what's copied)

next step go to reply box where i want to post and ......right click PASTE. i haven't figured out the new buttons either, so i'm just using my old ways. it's taking getting used too and i really miss the karma button but so far so good.