Manual: How to embed links in your posts

[Dutch Uncle]

Hi all, I thought perhaps this may interest a few folks here.

There are two methods to post links to other sites and/or other threads from this site and/or specific posts even.

1) The easy way: copy the web-address from your browser-bar into your post. It will look like this: http://outofthefog.net/C-PTSD/forum/index.php

2) This is a bit more complicated, but may add to the understanding and relevance of the link to your overall message:
- click the "insert Hyperlink" button (2nd row, 2nd button) in the 'post reply'-screen.
- This will insert this code in the 'box' [*url] [/url]*.
- In between the brackets " ] " and " [ " you can type (copy) the title of the web-article or thread-title or post title, or anything else you want.
- To make this actually link to the source, you need to type an "=" in the first part, like this: [*url= ] and then paste the web-adress directly after the "=" (and thus before the " ] " )  For example: [*url=http://outofthefog.net/C-PTSD/forum/index.php*]OOTS forum, main page[/url]
- The result will look like this: OOTS forum, main page

*) Asterisks are not really there, I used them to prevent the software from reading my text as actual URL/web-addresses.

NB: as you can see, Bolding, Italics and all other 'stuff' works inside the URL-code as well.