html links - please help!

youtin

youtin

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I feel stupid for asking this but my html knowledge is next to nothing so...
here's the question:

How do I hotlink? (umm...is that how you call it) Like for example I have the link

http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/zenvisionm.html

but instead of this long, cumbersome link, I'd like to it to be check me out, for example and when you click "check me out" it'll take you to the webpage.

Sorry for such a n00bsy question:o
 
**<a href="http://www.BLAHBLAH.com/">TEXT HERE !!!</a>**

Take out the "**" !!! and your sorted :P
 
<a href="http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/zenvisionm.html/">clickme</a>

umm...it doesn't seem to work(>_<) What am I doing wrong?
 
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This here, COMPUTERFORUM doesn't use HTML. Instead, you would write:

Code: 
[URL="http://www.google.com"]Google[/URL]

EDIT: Ok, so it's not letting me do it in the code either.

{url=www.google.com}Google{/url}

Just change the { and } to [ and ]
 
FYI what you are doing is not "hotlinking". What you have is just a link to another site's web page. Hotlinking normally bypasses all the html and directly links to files such as zips, mp3 etc. The person hotlinking appears to be offering the file but it is the hotlinked site who is (or may be) paying for the bandwidth for the download, and their web page content is being bypassed and ignored.

You don't need the / after the html
www.radioandtelly.co.uk/zenvisionm.html/ should be
www.radioandtelly.co.uk/zenvisionm.html

Starman*
 
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