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Can I make a polite request to everyone to keep in mind that pasting a very long URL into a post can cause much tedium in reading an entire page of a thread?
If you are using the Quick Reply at the bottom of the page, please remember that there is the normal Reply, which allows you to shorten the link with a simple phrase or name, etc, by clicking on the URL button above the text box. Just paste in the long URL, then type something in, and that's it.
Even with a large monitor for graphics, I sometimes find myself having to scroll left and right to read each line in the posts.
Thanks for reading.
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The URL buttons are even available in Quick Reply. To make a pretty link, type:
Code: [url=http://www.thelinktowhateveryouwantedlinked.com]A nice pretty link[/url]
e.g.
[url=http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/option,com_imagebase/task,view/cid,4/Itemid,94/]Marcus Caelius' tombstone[/url]
The latter example gives this result: Marcus Caelius' tombstone
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Hear hear! And the same goes for very large pictures!
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For pictures, please consider using the attachment function, which automatically resizes your image.
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Quote:The URL buttons are even available in Quick Reply. To make a pretty link, type:
Code: [url=http://www.thelinktowhateveryouwantedlinked.com]A nice pretty link[/url]
e.g.
[url=http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/option,com_imagebase/task,view/cid,4/Itemid,94/]Marcus Caelius' tombstone[/url]
Easier to click the URL button in the normal Reply :wink:
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Quote:For pictures, please consider using the attachment function, which automatically resizes your image.
The function that disallows pictures over a certain size seem to be off these days?
And using the attachment function too often also has its draw-backs.. 
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Quote:The function that disallows pictures over a certain size seem to be off these days?
No, it's not. The size crept up, that's what happened. I've downsized the maximum again.
Quote:And using the attachment function too often also has its draw-backs..
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Quote:Quote:And using the attachment function too often also has its draw-backs..
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Our accounts have an upper limit, no? I've reached it once before..
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Yes, but you are able to ask for more, aren't you? :wink: I've yet to be a jerk about that. At least, I believe so... 
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Thank you all for good tips.  guilty as charged at times)
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Even using the url= tag can cause problems, as I discovered with those local.live.com links I posted (they are ridiculously long because all the information is rather clumsily conveyed in the URL) - some it just plain refused to format properly so I went off and used tinyurl for the links and then everything was hunkydory.
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BUMP.
Some very long URL's posted lately that make reading a thread an exercise in scrolling left to right :?
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Quote:For pictures, please consider using the attachment function, which automatically resizes your image.
Thats news to me....  hock:
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Quote:Thats news to me.... hock:
Yes, I had to ask for help on this one, too!
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This has been happening a lot lately, so
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