We didn't have any Christmas lights to switch on, so instead,
we've just made it a whole lot easier to post clickable links on the
OUTDOORSmagic forum.
Until now you had to use html hyperlinks if you wanted to post a
clickable link to an external site, but that's all changed and it's
become a lot simpler, so simple that even we can do it.
How To Make A Simple Clickable URL
It's easy, just type [url] before the name of the
link and [/url] after it. So....
[url]www.outdoorsmagic.com[/url]
or
[url]http://www.outdoorsmagic.com[/url]
will both produce a clickable link www.outdoorsmagic.com
How To Make Linked Text
If you want to be really clever, you can even produce linked text,
which is a particularly good idea with, say, multimap links which
otherwise expand the page sideways and annoy everyone.
The good news is that it's almost as simple as a straightforward
link.
[url=www.outdoorsmagic.com]that flippin
outdoors site[/url]
will create a text link like this: that
flippin outdoors site
Formatted Text
Finally you can also now make words bold, italicised
or underlined by adding simple tabs:
[b]bold[/b]
[i]italic[/i]
[u]underlined[/u]
Note
Old links in existing posts will remain clickable, but if you want
to add new links, you have to use the new mark-up codes, html will no
longer work.
So there you go. Big thanks to the Magicalia tech team for making everyone's life easier in time for Christmas :-)
Jon Doran
