When you find a news story you want to post on a forum, for example something in ‘The Sheffield Star’ newspaper, you right click on the web address on your browser,click on copy, and use the URL tags box on the reply page of the forum, pasting a link to the newspapers homepage. ie; http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/
But each individual page of a website has its own unique web address. So when you find a story you want to link to, right click on the web address on your browser, copy and paste, in the same way you would do for that sites homepage. ie;http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=25270 This links you directly to the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet info page. To access this page from the homepage, I normally would have to click on ‘Days Out’ then click on ‘Museums’ then click on ‘Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet’. Somebody who doesn’t know about the Hamlet would have to scour the home page, plus sub pages, looking for the Hamlet page.
To post a link, but substituting text for the actual link, means typing in instructions rather than just clicking the URL tags box on the forum reply page. If you place your cursor over the URL button in the reply box of this forum, you get two options. To insert text as a link, we have to use what comes after the ‘or’ in the options.
Type ‘[url=’ (without the quotes) then copy and paste your sub page address after the = sign. Enclose your sub page address with ‘]’ (no quotes) Then type the desired text, in this case, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. Your reply, when posted, will show your text acting as the link. ie; Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
