Shrinking long links

[rik_uk3]

If this has been posted already, I apologise.

I'm one of the worst offenders for posting long internet links which means those reading the message have to side scroll the screen. You can shorten the links

Assuming that you wish to make a post which includes the following long link :

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html

and you would like this to show up as the short link ‘BCUK Forums’, then after copying it into your post you should edit it to read :

{url=http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html}BCUK Forums{/url}

The ‘BCUK Forums’ part then shows up in the post as a clickable link, and the rest doesn’t, resulting in a more readable post !

Important : You must use the square [ ] brackets, in place of the curly { } brackets which I had to use in the example above and you get this

BCUK Forums (http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html)

[scanker]

I think very long links are truncated by the forum software anyway. Or you could try tinyurl.com (http://tinyurl.com)

[Ogri the trog]

Thanks for the "How-to" Rik,
I can't promise to remember that its here but I'll give it a bash at some point - I'm not the best at driving these infernal devices.

ATB

Ogri the trog

[rik_uk3]

Thanks for the "How-to" Rik,
I can't promise to remember that its here but I'll give it a bash at some point - I'm not the best at driving these infernal devices.

ATB

Ogri the trog

No problem chap, this site does cut them down, some don't, but you can use the same technique on most other forums.

[decorum]

Thanks rik.

Anyone else think this should be stickied?

[Shewie]

Just testing

did it work (http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29387)


yes it did