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My most recent client is looking to upgrade the blog portion of their site by adding features to increase readership and create an online community. It’s something that’s fairly easily done via the web, but it’s the kind of task that requires a few simple tips to make sure your site makes the right connections with your readers. Continue Reading…
I thought a chart might be a good tool to organize a social networking project I’ve been working on. So I put all the services that I wanted to connect up in a group and started drawing lines connecting them. And, lo and behold:
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.
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!
