Sig line help

[kayleybeth]

How do you make a hot link in a sig line? I'm not sure whether to use <> brackets or [] brackets. Just making sure before I add a sig line. Thanks.

[SoCalDem]

1. easy...

[link:www.whateverthelinkis|http://www.motherjones.com/frontpagegifs/jebbush.jpg]

or just

type the link with the www.linkie.com

[SoCalDem]

3. turn into this in a sig line

click the pic.. (it goes nowhere, actually, but if you used a real website as the first part, it would take you there




or just

type the link with the www.linkie.com

[Kenneth ken]

2. I believe for sig lines

you use "real" HTML tags - < >
for everything else, you use DU html tags < >
- edit: Du is making both sets of tags look the same - not me


but it doesn't matter, sig lines kind of get stored, so if it's wrong at one point, and you change it, it will show as correct where it was previously wrong.

when you eventually do add a sig line, it will show up in the post you did asking about sig lines.

[kayleybeth]

4. So like this...

[kayleybeth]

5. Or like this

[Kenneth ken]

6. see how whatever

you do - it shows up that way in your original post?

[kayleybeth]

7. Thanks y'all

I think I've got it. I'm a slave to traditional html, this UBB code is all new to me. Thanks again :)

[kayleybeth]

8. Or maybe not

LOL! I'll work on it.

[Kenneth ken]

9. you had it for a while

I clicked on one of your links - it didn't take me to a real page, but it did "go" somewhere.

[kayleybeth]

10. Here's what I'm trying to do...

I'm trying to make a text link (for example "Page Name") encased in tags to make the text "Page Name" a hot link, rather than making the actual url address the hot link. Am I making any sense?

[Kenneth ken]

11. yes

I used to know how to do that.

I don't now.

OK !

Now I have it again.

use brackets rather than lt gt symbols
then it's open bracket A HREF="http:\\website.com.html" close bracket
name you want to show (I used "link")
open bracket /A close bracket

[kayleybeth]

12. Thanks Kennethken

I'll figure it out eventually. Thanks for your help :) I really do appreciate it.

[SoCalDem]

13. kayleybeth and kennethken

what a cute couple :)

[Kenneth ken]

14. thanks -

we like easy, clear names!

[kayleybeth]

15. Okay

how did you do that with the link in your sig?

[Kenneth ken]

16. err just like

SoCalDem said in her first response.

only I did it the hard way - dug out my book, and trials-and-erred it

[kayleybeth]

18. That's it!

Thanks SoCalDem and Kennethken. Got it. Thanks for your help!

[kayleybeth]

17. double names are

a Southern thing :)