How do you make a link so that the whole URL isnt written out, but merely a highlighted word behind which, apparently, the URL is hidden?
And how do you do the same thing when writing an email? Is it different with most web-based email providers, or does it work the same way?
Thanks in advance!!
RK
Not sure what you’re asking for, whether you mean this message board or in html (web-pages), so I’ll answer both:
For this message board you want:
[ URL=www.somesite.com]Link text (without the space in front of the first URL)
In html you want this code
<a href=“http://www.somesite.com/”>Link text</a>
The only way to get this when writing an e-mail is to use html, and since you really shouldn’t use html in email (it’s a text-only format), I recommend that you don’t. 
Thanks! But…
I tried the HTML code on both hotmail and angelfire mail and it worked on neither.
Why do you recommend I not use it in an email, by the way?
RK
E-mail, as a standard, is a plain-text medium, which means that there shouldn’t be any formatting of the text, hyperlinks included.
If you use html in a mail, your recipients may not be able to read it properly, their client shows the source of the html in the e-mail instead. (In a web browser, use “View Source” somewhere in the menus to view what the source of a webpage looks like.)
Since I don’t use Hotmail or Angelfire mail, I’m afraid I can’t help you there.