Help with linking

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

My question is why won't #1 and #3 work? I thought that when you put the html in the build page text then published it that the link activated itself. Is this true or is there something else that I need to do? How exactly is this supposed to work? Like I said I'm missing something in all the info I've read on html and all the things you folks have told me.

[Andy128]

Re: Help with linking

#2 and #4 work because you build the code into the page. # 1 and #3 dont because they are added to the page as text.

For example- when you click on the image icon and place an image onto the page- the BV web builder does the "coding" for you as to where and how that image will be displayed. You did not have to code it like;
<img src="my_picture.jpg">

The same with the text icon. This merely places text on the page. The coding for placement, font, color etc. is done by the BV program and If you were to include html context in the text area it will show as text only and will not activate. But- when you opened a html box- it told the BV web builder that you were placing specific html code here and treated it accordingly.

I hope that makes sense and explains it a little better.

Andy

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

Yes I understand all that. This started out as a question of how to link back to my BV website from a classified ad. There is no link button or html box to work with.
I was given code as in message #7 and told if I put that in the text in my notepad and cut & pasted that into the ad it would be a link when it published. It didn't work so that is when I decided to try it with my BV website. Of course I still couldn't make it work.
Is what I described what I'm supposed to do to make a link or is it something else? It's like I'm trying to get someone to tell me a highly guarded secret. All I want to know is how to put the html (I guess) into text and when it's published it acts like the link button and turns into a link.
Please let me in on the secret of how a link is supposed to work from html on a text page to when its published.
I know I kind of rambling here but I'm trying to ask what I want to know in every way possible so maybe someone can help me.
I've been asking the same basic question for a week now and everyone seems to have a different idea of what I'm trying to do.
Don

[Andy128]

Re: Help with linking

Don-
Unless the website hosting the ad provides for an avenue for you to create a hyper-link- YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT. If this forum did not have an avenue (such as the hyperlink button above) to make a hyper link- you would not be able to create one on this forum.

If you open note pad and type in; <a href="http://www.mywebsite.com>CLICK HERE</a> and saved the document as a text document-THE LINK WOULD NOT WORK.

If however you saved it as an HTML Document- IT WOULD WORK.

No secrets. Thats how it works.

Sorry- but I don't know how to explain it any better.

Andy

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

That seems simple. Here's another question, how do I save it as a html document. The only choices it gives me is .txt and all.
Don

[Andy128]

Re: Help with linking

Put a .html after the name you have chosen for the file/page


Andy

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

I thought I had it made when you said put .html after the file. Every time I try to save it I get the choice of either .txt or all files. I know there must be another way of saving the file, but I can't find it.
On another note the code works fine in the file I'm trying to cut and paste but doesn't transfer to the webpage. Is that because it wasn't saved as a .html file or what?
Don

[Andy128]

Re: Help with linking

I thought I had it made when you said put .html after the file. Every time I try to save it I get the choice of either .txt or all files. I know there must be another way of saving the file, but I can't find it.

Choose all files. Then type what ever name you wish the page/file to have and add .html - For instance. If your page is named page1, you would put page1.html

On another note the code works fine in the file I'm trying to cut and paste but doesn't transfer to the webpage. Is that because it wasn't saved as a .html file or what?
Don

I suspect that you are using Microsoft Word/Office to write this. It is working because the link function is turned on in MS Word/Office. If you were to use notepad - it would not work. Remember- it is a function that must be enabled or used in its proper enviroment to work.

Andy

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

I have done what you said over and over again (as far as I can tell) but when I publish it has the html that I typed into the text and not the link. Somehow, even though I save it as html and I can go back and it verifies it as html, it must be changing back to .txt.
The html of the page has the link in it.
I'm doing something wrong but what? I've literally spent all day on this and am no further along than when I started.
I've even typed the link and published it and that doesn't work either.
Don

[Andy128]

Re: Help with linking

Don-
Lets say you were able to get the link to work after you saved the page as .html.................What would you then do with that page with a link on it?

Copy and paste into the ad web site? That won't work.

You have been successfull in making links above in two instances.

If you are trying to create a link - in an ad on another web site - to link back to yours........It won't work. The only way it will work is if you talk with the host of the web site and ask them to put it on their site -IN YOUR AD.

You are missing a large concept here -in that, html code works in specific instances and in certain formats. It will not work simply because you type it somewhere.

Andy

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

I've given up on trying to put it in an ad. I'm just trying to get it to work here in my BV website. I just tried to make it work by copying the code that worked with the link button. Nothing.
I can't figure what I'm doing wrong. I've made some text in notepad and saved it as .html. I then cut & pasted that into the test page, saved it and published it. All I got was exactly what I had on my test page, no link.
I'm missing something here.
Can you walk (baby steps) me through it just to put it on my website test page? If I can see that maybe I can get it into my head.
Thanks,
Don

[Andy128]

Re: Help with linking

Don-
Have a look at the link below. That is as "baby-steps" as it can get.

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/hyperlinking-making-all-come-together/9315-linking-your-pages-together-creating-hyperlinks-text-images-etc.html

Andy

[donprofit]

Re: Help with linking

I feel like I'm going around in a circle. The link button works great and I know how to work it and the html box. What I'm trying to do is see how the html code works. I figured if I could get it to work in my BV website I might be able to understand it a little bit. If I can't even get it to work here then I guess I'll never get it to work in an outside medium such as an ad or an email.
Thanks for trying.
Don

[Bethers]

Re: Help with linking

Don, I have answered your email again.

You are not understanding that if you want to use html in your text, you HAVE TO PUT THAT TEXT IN AN HTML BOX on your website.

If you want to use the text box - then you HAVE TO USE THE TOOLS PROVIDED BY BV to add the linking. The html CANNOT be used in a text box.

[Garren]

Re: Help with linking

Hey Don,
What is the page of the add that you are trying to place this add onto.