Difference between revisions of "Help:Links"
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If you want to create a link to an external website you must type the entire URL on your web page: | If you want to create a link to an external website you must type the entire URL on your web page: | ||
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+ | <nowiki>http://www.actuporalhistory.org/</nowiki> | ||
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+ | Which will show up on your web page like this: | ||
http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ | http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ | ||
− | If you don't want to display the URL on your web page | + | If you don't want to display the URL on your web page, simply write the word you want to serve as the link after the URL and encase both within single brackets like this: |
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+ | <nowiki>[http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ ACT UP]</nowiki> | ||
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+ | Which will appear like this on your web page: | ||
[http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ ACT UP] | [http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ ACT UP] | ||
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[[Category: Help Pages]] | [[Category: Help Pages]] |
Revision as of 17:03, 25 July 2008
This page has been adapted from Wikipedia.
To make a link to another OutHistory.org page in edit mode, write the name of the page you want to link to within double brackets. For example:
[[Lesbians in the Twentieth Century]]
This is how it will appear on your web page:
Lesbians in the Twentieth Century
If you want don't want to write the name of the OutHistory page in your article, simply add your new title preceded by a pipe | after the link but within the brackets like this:
[[Lesbians in the Twentieth Century | Lesbians]]
Which will look like this on your web page:
If you want to create a link to an external website you must type the entire URL on your web page:
http://www.actuporalhistory.org/
Which will show up on your web page like this:
http://www.actuporalhistory.org/
If you don't want to display the URL on your web page, simply write the word you want to serve as the link after the URL and encase both within single brackets like this:
[http://www.actuporalhistory.org/ ACT UP]
Which will appear like this on your web page: