Game Guides Archive
Thread: How do you make a link?
Reaktor_Ultima wrote:
link came and i wrote www.google.com but page doesnt exist
It needs to be an absolute link such as "http://www.google.com"
Keep working on it you're almost there.
Reaktor_Ultima wrote:
Look at that, you can code webpages in HTML. I bet you never thought you'd be learning how to program on the SWG forums. 
Like the other guy said, you need the http:// before any web address. Otherwise it tries to add the address you type to the page you're on. If you hover your mouse over the link you made and check on the bottom of the screen, you'll see that the URL (web address) is http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/www.google.com . Without the http:// it figures you're talking about a page forward from where you are now.
Also, the webpage address is in quotes"" and the word between the <>here<> is what the link wil say on the screen.
So, just try again with something more like <a href="http://www.fightinghellfish.org">The home page of the mighty Fighting Hell Fish</a>
It's like this... each HTML command is within these <a> and ends with the same command with a forward slash, showing that command is done </a> So in this case you're telling the web browser that you want to put a link in (a) and you define what the address is (href="") and between the commands you type what will actually show up on the screen and then tell it that it has reached the end of the command (/a)
As another example: The HTML code for bold is simply B, so you'd just type <B> Some bold text here </B> See? Of course it doesn't do anything unless you type it in the "Edit As HTML" part of the message editor.
Eh, I'm rambling now.