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Disguising Hyperlinks - help needed
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I wonder if anyone here can help me. As part of my job I sometimes have to post links on mesage boards/forums such as this one, so that people can link to my site easily. I know how to create the link fine,but I am noticing that many people now have a way to 'disguise' the link so it looks as though it will take you somewhere else, and I would love to know how they do this - does anyone know?
Example: instead of this link - http://buythisproduct.com/Store/product/size/26732
I want it to look nicer such as - http://buythisproduct.com
but still direct the browser to the same place.
Can this be done easily?
Any help much appreciated,
Thanks
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You're seriously asking us to help you becoming sneakier at spamming forums?
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The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing
- Edmund Burke
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Its not for spamming, just for posting my links when ask for them and making them look a little neater. Thats all.
If you dont want to help thats fine. I would happily pay to buy an application or similar - maybe someone else will take my rerquest seriously.
Thanks
Originally Posted by madmacgames
You're seriously asking us to help you becoming sneakier at spamming forums?
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If you know HTML, you realize that the linked text can be anything you want, as long as the URL is specified in the code. Or maybe I'm missing something? 
Edit:
If you're asking how to shorten URLs, that depends on the message board system in use. Or you can use a service like TinyURL
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Last edited by Macola; May 17, 2005 at 09:52 PM.
Reason: Added info)
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Is he asking about vB code?
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Um... As everyone seems to have noticed, this is just learning how to use vbcode, yeah?
[ url=http://buythisproduct.com/Store/product/size/26732 ]http://buythisproduct.com/[ /url ]
without the spaces to be:
http://buythisproduct.com
The first post did sound like you're a spammer wanting to be sneakier...
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or in plain html (for a website ((not forums)) it will be:
< a href="http://buythisproduct.com/Store/product/size/26732" >http://buythisproduct.com< /a>
without the spaces to be:
http://buythisproduct.com
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