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| Many people do this: 1. Go to the site you want to link to and highlight it in the Browser's Address Box up above. Right-click and Copy the URL. 2. Go to New Post or your saved post in your blog and highlight the word or title that will serve as the link. 3. Click on the icon that looks like a chain and globe above the Post Editor. 4. Paste your copied URL into the box that appears in the far top left corner. 5. Click Okay in that box. 6. You'll see the URL in an "anchor" formula like this: <a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com"></a> 7. If you haven't already done so, add the blog title or the text you want between the start and end tags: <a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com">The Rat Squeaks</a> This way, you'll have entered the entire link formula almost entirely by Blogger mechanism, thereby preventing any risk of misspelling the link. |
Below is a combined screenshot of both the Html and the Compose screen, showing location of the chain symbol, etc.
Making Links The Manual Way, With Code
Every site you visit or create has a link name. you can find mine at http://rodentia.blogspot.com/
However, in a template, the link would read:
<a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com/">The Rat Squeaks</a>
and the code would be unseen except for
"The Rat Squeaks".
If you're in a site and want to link back to it from your own site, put the cursor up in the Address window, right-click the mouse and then click Copy in the menu that appears close by. When you get to your template or to your temporary file (wherever), you can Paste what you copied before. Then you'll have to work it out like the formula shown above.
Permalinks
If you want to be able to point to a specific post, rather than just to the front page of the blog, find the bottom of the post and hover your cursor over things until the time indicator or some other item shows the term "permanent link". Then you can keep the cursor on that and right-click. The menu will show, among other things, Copy Shortcut. Click on that. Now you have the link you want in this case. Again, you have to insert it into the formula. like so:
<a> href="url">Title</a>
See also Links List and Clickable Button Link
In addition to the above, one can locate and copy the Permalink for a post by resting one's cursor over the post title. Just right-click your mouse and click "Copy Shortcut" in the Menu that opens. Then you can right-click it when ready to "Paste" it into the location of your choice.
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For the permanent link, some are working and some are not, don't know why?
ReplyDeleteYou mean, on your site? Leave a link so I can see.
ReplyDeleteCOOOL Ron! I never knew this! NEATO!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I've been trying to figure this out for awhile. You made it so easy,
ReplyDeletethanks!
I've been trying to do that for the 3 months I've started my blog.
ReplyDeleteBut it only worked once !!
Every other times when I click on the little chain icon I just get a white window...useless...
It is sooo irritating!!!
I would so much love to be able to have those highlighted words in my posts that direct people where I want when they click on them.
Can you help ?
Thank you,
Gaelle
Before doing such things it should be wise to open the source code of target site and see - may be there are "#anchors" already. I find them relatively often. Guess they are produced automatically by some web design software. In this case anyone can make a link directly to the place, where anchor resides - by appending it's name to the link.
ReplyDeletePossibly, though I have never found any "pre-existing" ones as you describe. Nor would someone new to the concept be all that likely to just stumble across them. But it's a thought.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to follow your instruction, and have hovered over many "things" at the bottom of my posting, but am starting to think that maybe these directions don't work with a Mac? And an older version of OSX, to boot? .... I'll try it on the PC at work, at some point, but would love any advice...
ReplyDeleteI don't use a Mac, so I'm not positive, but the hover-over ought to work in any browser, I would have thought. It might still be a problem with other things. Email me and I'll send more info. Or maybe after you check your work pc, you'll get some idea! I'll be waiting.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I tried to follow instructions from a blogging book and from a couple of other "help" sites. Nothing worked. Your easy-to-follow guidance was just great. Thanks! MM
ReplyDeleteAlways glad when it works for someone!
ReplyDeleteSo having leaped one hurdle, I am heading toward the next. How do I link to a specific part of an article, so that the reader doesn't have to scroll through the whole? Can you tell me or guide me to a source? (I saw this somewhere--can't find it again. Maybe it used the symbol # in the link.) MM
ReplyDeletemarymartha: look at this post: http://20stickyposts.blogspot.com/2006/07/anchor-used-to-jump-within-post.html
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