Shortening URLS on the forum

[guest7]

Can someone remind me how to use a short piece of text in place of a lengthy URL when posting links to this forum?

Cheers
GC

[themoudie]

Aye GC,

If your Ebay mail is what you refer too, why not copy and paste the Item No. only?

Have a whizzo 2007, Bill

[guest7]

I'm sure soemone posted a workaround so that I could hide the full URL and display some highlighted text in its place

GC

[themoudie]

Await the 'Moderator'!

[Simon#83]

Graham,

Do you mean creating a tiny URL that then points to a much larger one? :

http://tinyurl.com/

[guest7]

I didn't mean tinyURL, but that will do.

I thought someone had listed a way of doing the href thing, i.e. pointing to a URL but only displaying whatever text you want to assign to that link.

GC