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Help with making a text link PLEASE boo hoo

by michaelpotter
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Help, I have been sitting here for hours trying to work out how to make a word in an article a link to an affiliate site i want to promote. Basically I want a word to be in blue with a line underneath that when clicks goes to the affiliate site. Now that may be obvious 2 u but I am a noob without any tech knowledge whatsoever. So once again in need the Warriors help. Thankyou for reading .
Warmest regards,
Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
    Hi Michael,

    Try this...

    blah blah blah <a href="http://www.yourlinkhere.com/">the word(s) you want hyperlinked</a> blah blah blah.

    KJ
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  • Profile picture of the author Talltom1
    Michael,

    Have you done a google search on how to use an <a href > html tag? There are many websites out there that are reference sources for html coding that give specific examples of how to do this.

    If you're still stuck, send me a PM and I will get you the exact code you need.

    Talltom
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    • Profile picture of the author Talltom1
      Looks like everybody jumped all over this one at the same time.
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    • Profile picture of the author michaelpotter
      Hello Tall Tom,

      OK i know I am a bit thick but to make this work do i do the article in HTML? I did the article as text on openoffice.org
      Thanks for your time
      Michael
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      • Profile picture of the author Talltom1
        Ok - In OpenOffice - click on 'Insert' - 'Hyperlink'

        in the 'Target' field - put the destination of your link - 'www.somewhere.com/this_place.html

        in the 'Text' field - place 'Buy Now'

        What shows up in your openoffice document is a blue underlined link that says, 'Buy Now' that - when clicked - goes to www.somewhere.com/this_place.html

        Let me know if this solves your question.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mantero Cantrow
    pretty easy..

    like this:

    HTML Code:
    <a href="http://www.youraffiliatelink.com">Your word</a>
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  • Profile picture of the author legacymaker
    Originally Posted by michaelpotter View Post

    Help, I have been sitting here for hours trying to work out how to make a word in an article a link to an affiliate site i want to promote. Basically I want a word to be in blue with a line underneath that when clicks goes to the affiliate site. Now that may be obvious 2 u but I am a noob without any tech knowledge whatsoever. So once again in need the Warriors help. Thankyou for reading .
    Warmest regards,
    Michael
    As the others have said, what you want is a hyperlink.

    Depending on the editor you are using, there are a number of ways to that.

    the most universal i think is to edit the source code with a simple text editor like notepad and enclose the word or words that you'd like to be a hyperlink like

    <a href="pagefilename.html">This is a link</a>

    the anchor tag <a> needs to be closed with </a>

    if you'd want to make the links have a little custumazation, you can a little CSS. Like if you want you link to be red, 16 point size and in bold you do the following

    <a href="somelink.html" style="color:red; font-weight:bold; font-size:16pt;">This is a red link</a>

    If you want you link to open in a new window you add the target attribute like so

    <a href="somelink.html" style="color:red; font-weight:bold; font-size:16pt;" target="_blank">This is a red link that opens in a new window</a>.

    I recommend that you get an HTML reference guide or read up on some web resources. the W3C have a very nice site for tutorials



    Hope this helps
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