TESSL - Tech's Exciting Simple System for Links

[Tech]

Sometimes people ask: "What on earth were you thinking of, making it so complicated to insert a link into a post?" I usually answer, "I dunno really, I must be a bit thick."

To rectify this sad state of affairs, we've added a new way to insert a simple links to another website (or other bits of mn of course). To do so, just type the full address inside and . So to link to our lovely home page you would type www.mumsnet.com without the spaces, and it would come up as www.mumsnet.com.

The old complicated way still works if you want to display text other than the link itself....

We'll update the Links guide to the right of the message box to reflect this.

Regards,
Tech

ok, got it. cheers

www.google.com
testing

F & Z - if you do a space and then type what you want to say before your last ]]s then it looks just like the old way

ah

ooh Steve you are clever

marvellous well done

I found the old way rather easy, actually

www.itsforallthethickosfrannyandnotclevergirlslikeus.com

www.iexpecttheNEWBIESwilllikeit.org

like this?

Wayhay I can do links!!!!

Is that possibly the longest post Tech has ever done - what with anecdotes etc ???!!!

hoooooommmmmm

I have acheived enlightenment.....

I don't know if I like change

Do we need the ?

www.google.com
www.google.com

Clever

Let me try (although of course I can do them the old way, very easily , hmm.

this dull but useful cleaning site

Hmm, I'm not sure it's quicker, let me try both ways

for tech

for tech

OK, I admit, it's better, I just used to get used to not typing \link etc

Have one of these

myfirsteverlinkhopeitworks

I can't get used to not using shift for the brackets. I keep getting {{ instead of [[

can i practice?

google

ha ha. still get it wrong

www.google.co.uk

I'm an old stick-in-the-mud and can't quite bring myself to use these new-fangled methods ... am sticking stubbornly to the way I know [where's the boring old fart emoticon when you need it?]

I liked the old way, but used to copy and paste the /link bit from the box on the right, then copy and paste the link into it.
Now I can't do the old way or the new way