CLICKABLE EMAIL LINKS
Last Updated on Tuesday, June 16, 2009
When sending webpage LINKS via email, compare this one
Example 1
arkady.com
to this one
Example 2
(it will open in a separate Window or Tab in your browser. Just Close it to come back here)
See the difference?! That's what happens in email most of the time, on Macs and Windows, regardless of which email program you use.
In the Example 1, nothing happens when you click on it, but when you put the URL/WEBPAGENAME inside BRACKETS, like these <> , with http:// in front of website name, like in the Example 2, it will become "LIVE" - CLICKABLE LINK, which is what we all want -- have people CLICK on a LINK and arrive to the webpage which that LINK represents, particularly if it's something you want people to see! Example:) -- like this soon to be legendary:)
Arkady "The
Flight Of The Bumblebee" Clarinet
Video 
!!!
This LINKS IN EMAIL topic becomes even more of an issue when a LINK is LONG and gets broken, truncated, wrapped, to the next line, as if it was a new paragraph. Then the LINK doesn't work, and most people don't know that it could be reassembled together, and Copied and Pasted into Browser (Location Box)...
A perfect example of that could be one of those Free Photo Albums online.
You upload your photos, and send an Invitation for people to come see those photos. You Pasted that Album's Link perfectly into YOUR EMAIL, and CC'd that email to yourself, or IDEALLY, you sent it to yourself, with everyone else in BCC (PRIVACY!!!) When you received that email, the LINK works, but you don't know if it works for everyone else, UNLESESS you used THE <> BRACKETS!!! And so, your friends start replying to you, saying that the LINK didn't work, and it gets very time consuming from there on!!! So, don't let that happen USE THE <> BRACKETS!!! as I've described here!
Here is a GREAT ARTICLE on this topic...
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2007/01/sendlongurl/index.php>
This simple http:// inside <> brackets fix works ON ANY COMPUTER! BUT...
On the RARE OCCASIONS when it doesn't, the TinyURL, mentioned in the above article, is a FANTASTIC TIP for resolving this problem, when on the rare occasions <> brackets don't protect theLONG LINKS. BUT thus far, with http:// in front of the website name inside THE <> BRACKETS, I haven't had problems...
You can also use http://bit.ly & http://tinyurl.com to shorten the long links! See more about that here!
Hope this helps. Thanks for stopping by...
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