Renaming a URL

[El Grifo]

I am desperately trying to rename this:-

Flickr: Ronn Ballantyne's Photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27182229@N07/)

To this :-

Recent Photostreams

I have followed instructions and ended up with a stream of code which I have no clue what to do with.

Can anybody help ???

[Saab Dastard]

Do you mean on PPRUNE?

Like this:

Recent Photostreams (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27182229@N07/)

SD

[El Grifo]

Well, yeah. I mean on Pprune.

Anyway, I have spent hrs followin googled instructions and failed at every turn.

However.

When I copy and paste your replacement link it still comes out as a string.

My intention is to add the shortened title to my outgoing emails in the same way that I have a link to my main website.

Can you help with this ?

Cheers
El .

[Saab Dastard]

Well, yeah. I mean on Pprune.

My intention is to add the shortened title to my outgoing emails

So which are you trying to achieve? Or both?

On PPRuNe, the easiest way to do it is to copy the URL you want to put in the post, then just write the text you want to appear in the post instead of the URL, then highlight that text, click the "Insert Link" icon, and paste the URL in the dialog box.

No idea about your email, although mentioning what email client you are using might help someone else give you some advice.

SD

[bnt]

This stream of code that you get - does it look something like this?
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27182229@N07">Recent Photostreams</a>If so, that is the HTML code behind a link. You usually don't need to work with the HTML code directly. Assuming your email client is able to create HTML mails, it should just be a case of saying "insert link", so without more details about your client, I don't know what more to tell you.

[El Grifo]

Yep bnt, that is exactly what I have.

Problem is I have no idea how to use it as a visible link to my Flckr photostream.

Currently, all of my outgoing emails in outlook express have a link to my normal everyday website.

Much more valuable to me would be a link to my photostream in a shortened form.

Although tying me in knots, SD's apprent conversion looks fine. the problem is when I try to cut and paste that into my outgoing emails the long, complicated, string returns.

I simply want it to read "Recent Photostreams"

Cheers
El G.

[El Grifo]

Flickr: Ronn Ballantyne's Photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27182229@N07/)


Recent Photostreams (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27182229@N07/)

[El Grifo]

Well I finally got that far, but can anyone help me to insert this into my outgoing outlook express emails in the same way that I can insert my website address ??

[bnt]

A-ha - your email client is Microsoft Outlook Express - now we know what we're dealing with. I don't have access to Outlook Express here at university, but will have later tonight, so I'll try it for myself then.

[Saab Dastard]

Are you sure you are sending emails as HTML, rather than plain text?

SD

[Mike-Bracknell]

http://snipurl.com (http://snipurl.com/) ??

[El Grifo]

We are getting warmer guys :ok:

bnt, let me know how you get on.
SD, Deffo not html, for sure plain text.
MB, nice but just short of the mark re my requirement.

Keep em coming guys. I think we are getting there :ok:

[Saab Dastard]

I'm pretty sure you have to send as HTML if you want to parse HTML in the URL.

SD

[El Grifo]

It just ain't my language SD, though I am grateful for your attempts.

Currently all of my outgoing emails in outlook express go out with a signature containing my name, address and live link to my website.

I simply pasted all of that into the signature box.

Anyone who receives an email can simply click the link and connect.

I now want to include a link to my flckr photostream, but not a long string.

I am simply looking to put " Recent Photostreams" and make it clickable.

Maybe this is possible, maybe it is not.

Problem is I am a photog, not a techy.

Any pointers ?

Just found this.
http://www.tvaaj.*************/

Sheeeit, what's with the stars ????

OK try this :-



<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jW4wlXW7qBQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jW4wlXW7qBQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[bnt]

OK - sorry about the delay. I have Outlook Express 6 going under XP SP3, and I see what you mean. You set this up by going to Tools -> Options -> Signatures, and hitting "New". If you select "Text", that's what it expects, so the HTML code is not interpreted.

So you'll need to use the "File" method:
- take the HTML code you got, paste in to Notepad with anything else you want, and save it to a file called "sig.html" or something ending in ".html"
- on the Signatures tab (under Tools -> Options) select "File" and "Browse".
- In the "open file" dialog, select "HTML Files" in the "Files of Type" box, then the HTML sig as above file, and say OK.
- You can say "Add signature to all outgoing messages" if you like, or else you'll have to "insert signature" manually. Say OK.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/85261/OEsig.gif

I don't use OE at all, but this seems to work - it creates HTML mail by default, and puts the signature at the bottom if you have that enabled.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

creates HTML mail by default
... thus won't be read at all by people who have set either their servers or their mail clients to silently delete HTML mail (on the reasonable assumption that 99.9% of it is spam), and won't be read properly by those of the remainder who've set their mail clients to only display plain text emails (in order to avoid various nasties that use email as a transmission medium).

[Keef]

True, Gertrude, but then isn't 99.9% of ALL e-mail Spam?

I allow HTML mail if it passes Spamcop and Gmail. It then has to run the gauntlet of Avast before it gets to my inbox.

[El Grifo]

bnt, I am grateful for your dilgent effort and will give that a test on my secondary machine today.

Using the slightly goofy website I mentioned earlier I have managed to get the link down to this:-

photostreams.tk (http://www.photostreams.tk/)

Which seems to tick most of the boxes.

I will let you know how I get on with your prescribed method.

Cheers
El G.

[El Grifo]

Just to wrap this up in a happy sort of way, I stuck with the

photostreams.tk (http://www.photostreams.tk/)

And it works a treat, Good feedback from my albiet, dwindling list of travel clients.

Thanxs All :ok: