Jenn Mears Web Design

How To Put A Link In A Facebook Note

Here’s an example of a link embedded in a Facebook Note

1. Create your note on your Facebook profile. Then, in another window on your browser, find the page you want to link to. Select that page’s url and copy it.

2. Go back to your note and find the text you want to transform into a link. Place your cursor in front of the first letter and type in these characters:

3. Now, after the first set of quote marks, paste in the url you just copied and then put another set of quotation marks followed by a bracket after it like so:

4. Next, go to the last character in the string of text you want to link to and after it type:

There’s actually a pretty good range of html markup you can add to a note. Facebook has a good guide to using HTML tags here.

Google Hack! Copying a webmail signature into a gmail message

To be honest, there’s a real workaround out there that you can install with the Greasemonkey Firefox extension, but this is a quick trick if you are on the go, or don’t have the time to deal with the install just yet. I found this down and dirty method when I wanted to reply to a client’s email with some links to show them some examples of social networking in action.

Step 1: In your Webmail account, go to your Settings folder and select Compose. Then,create your webmail signature with interactive links in the compose window and save the changes.

Tip: Make those links as user-friendly as possible. Luckily my Doteasy webmail GUI lets me include tooltips in a link. That way people will have some idea of what they are going to see when they click the link.
Step 2: Go to your webmail mailbox and send a message to your Gmail account with that new signature.
Step 3: Go to your Gmail account and open up the message you just sent and give it a test drive.
Step 4: Now you can keep that message handy and copy and paste your signature from there when you want to include it in a Gmail message. When you want to include that signature, simply view that message with your signature, highlight the signature and then copy and paste it into the new message.
Please Note: This only works if you launch Gmail in its own window. (top left corner of inbox window;”Launch Full Gmail”)
Easy!

How To Custom Color Your Links in Wordpress and Blogger

So you want to include a link in your Wordpress or Blogger site, but the usual link color won’t do? There’s an easy way to color your links with inline styling! Since this takes advantage of the cascade function in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), it’s a great way to add extra spice to a link you want your readers to really notice.

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A (Fluid) Facebook Field Guide

One thing I’ve noticed about a lot of free stuff on the web is that the administrators like to just throw you in there with a shrug as if to say: “Go figure it out for yourself, it’s free isn’t it?”. I respect that. It takes tons of BS&T to start any sort of web service and since every tweener on the block seems to be trying to do it, I have that much more respect for services that actually succeed. So, as I’ve been adding friends, checking out walls and sending messages back and forth, some things are making me wonder. What is a “poke” and why would I want to use it? What’s the deal with “Boxes“?

Originally I wanted to do a Glossary, but A: That takes a lot of time, time I could spending on Facebook! B: It’s a fairly fastmoving service, so I’d run the risk of dating myself (and I don’t mean in a fun way) and C: Why tread where others have obviously tread before?

So…here are some links to fairly good guides to Facebook. Enjoy, and let me know if you’ve found some good guides you’d like to share!

CNET: Newbie’s Guide to Facebook

Techsoup’s Beginner’s Guide (with bonus screenshots!)

AllFacebook’s Guide to Page Tabs: Find out what Boxes and Notes are all about

Web Worker Daily’s 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally: Good no-fluff, no hype tips for using Facebook to its fullest.

And, for fun, check out Sugarrae’s Unofficial Guide