It’s been so long since I’ve done this that I’ve completely forgotten how:
When I want to post a link to something but not show the entire link in the post, how do I name it something else?
For instance, if I wanted to post a very long link to a magazine article, how do I hide the link with “click here”?
Susan
[url=http://myvery-long-url/]Click here[/url]
Which gives: Click here
Thanks so much - no wonder they put you in charge occasionally!
Susan
Next question, MTGuru, when you’re showing the code like that without it actually performing the code, is it as simple as surrounding it all with a
...
?
Haha, I think I answered my own question when the post ended up looking like that!
Hmmph. His link is bad. Guru, indeed. 
Actually, the site I needed it for uses another code–didn’t matter anyway. I was trying to link to a photo album and it won’t let me because the album is “private.” Going to have to think about this…do I really want every photo I take floating around on PhotoBucket (even though I don’t name or tag them in any way, so I don’t think anybody could find one of my photos unless by chance)?
Susan
Well ye don’t have to put all of 'em on a file sharing site; just the ones you want to share.
I would think you would be able to create Public folders and Private folders so you could share what you want with whom.
djm
What that site may want is the HTML version, which looks like this:
<a href="http://myvery-long-url">Click here</a>
I forget what the A means. Href is Hypertext Reference. Then you have the stuff that you want to link to, connected to the href. Outside the angle brackets is the stuff you want to be clickable, then you end the whole command with a backslash and the original a that opened it.
You can use other commands similarly. Inside those angled brackets, a B makes things bold, I makes them italic, and U makes them underlined. In those cases you don’t need the href part. Just
<b>bold text</b>
Yes, good point. The square bracket stuff like [url] and [img] is BBCode, not HTML, and is specific to phpBB boards like the Chiffboard. General HTML is actually banned in version 3 of phpBB for security reasons.
For the built-in Guide to BBCode, see: http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/faq.php?mode=bbcode
Or from the Posting screen (new topic or reply), click the BBCode link under Options.
In HTML, the is the Anchor tag. It’s usually used with the href=target modifier to create a hyperlink, but not always.
Weren’t you just talking about creating a website?
You could upload your picture files to that space
and link to them from anywhere without any
photobucket rules.
I set up a blog which is working very well and I’m pleased with it; however, I quickly realized the photos I was posting of artwork were going to be archived each month. I could create a “gadget” where I could say: Click here to see more of my colored pencil artwork, with “here” being the link. Beth is correct about what the site required for it to work. My photos are currently uploaded into PhotoBucket because it’s the easiest place to use them for an art website I use a LOT. I discovered after about two hours of frustration that they wouldn’t become my “here” link because my albums were private, not public. PhotoBucket gives me two options: public, private. They’re either all public or all private. They have a “nobody can right click and copy your photos” option which I took, but it doesn’t keep more knowledgeable people from getting copies in PhotoBucket and for all I know you can get them from the blog. I guess nothing I’ve done is that sacred.
I decided to let them be public for one reason: I don’t tag or name my photos. Someone would really only come across them very accidentally–not by searching (I did tag a couple for a specific reason, but wrote the tags in such a way that it would be unlikely anybody searching those terms would find them). … sudden paranoia … can you search PhotoBucket by user name??? Going off to check …
Here’s what it’s looking like thus far (keep in mind it’s really intended for family/friends):
And now the real me is found out!
Anyway, it appears to be working right now and so far is no problem. It’s fine for what I want. Thanks for the help everybody!
Susan
Susan, I believe there is a way to set a blog so only certain people can access it. A friend of mine did it after her divorce. If you want me to ask her how she set it up, let me know!
Thanks, Beth, but I’m not that concerned about it. A tiny little blog like mine in the midst of the billions of pages on the internet isn’t going to amount to anything–can’t imagine anyone with evil designs would give a second thought to mine. I’m just going to see how it goes for a bit. Blogger gives me the info on how to make it private. Thanks, though!
Susan
I don’t know. You’ve now posted a full name as well as your city. Surely the terrorists and international crime syndicates will be able to track you down, now.
I really really like the snail shells. 
djm