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    Posted: 20 Jul 2017 at 4:27pm

How to Fix Your Signature Easy! NOW with VIDEO TUTORIAL Shocked
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Hello, fellow writers!
I have noticed that some newbies have had trouble hyperlinking their
signature or their signatures go to their stories rather than their
forum posts which makes it hard to make comments.  The instructions are below and also
I have included a Star VIDEO TUTORIAL Star with recorded screen capture.

1.  Create your forum post following the subject rules.  Add your description and
hyperlink to the location of your story (wordpress, blogger, google
docs, etc.) using the globe and paperclip icon as usual.

2.  Copy the link to that forum post. *

3.  Go to your Member Control Panel, to Edit Profile, scroll down the page to edit your signature

     You need to use BBcode brackets to make hyperlinks in your signature  [ ]
     You put the address like this: [URL= webaddresshere ] Text/Title Here [/URL]

      Here is mine as an example:

      [URL=http://forums.nycmidnight.com/rd1-heat10-mindful-things-spy_topic11946_post134726.html]Mindful Things R1 HEAT10 [/URL]




*Bonus: 
 
Save space by shortening long web addresses.
 
go to tinyurl.com
 
paste in your link and it will shorten it for you

  Turn:  
http://forums.nycmidnight.com/rd1-heat10-mindful-things-spy_topic11946_post134726.html
  Into: 
http://tinyurl.com/j2tl3ud


There is a character count limit for all signatures.   If you want to create
two clickable links, you must use "short links" to save on extraneous
characters.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BarrieLake Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Feb 2018 at 5:39am
Thank you Smile I'd been trying to add HTML tags to my signature, with no luck.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Squirrely Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Feb 2018 at 10:30am
One of my first experiences with social media was on this kind of firum, but OMG it seems so backwards now!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote lisafox10800 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Feb 2018 at 11:09am
Originally posted by LaissezFaire LaissezFaire wrote:

Bumping for the newbies (and forget-sies) to help with their signatures. Hug

This forget-sie thanks you. Embarrassed
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote justmel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Feb 2018 at 9:23pm
Originally posted by lisafox10800 lisafox10800 wrote:

Originally posted by LaissezFaire LaissezFaire wrote:

Bumping for the newbies (and forget-sies) to help with their signatures. Hug

This forget-sie thanks you. Embarrassed
 
This one too.  This is my fourth year in NYCM (and I-don't-know-how-manyth comp), and I still have to look up the instructions every time.  Embarrassed
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dekay Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Feb 2018 at 10:32pm
Originally posted by LaissezFaire LaissezFaire wrote:


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Thank you! You could not have made this any easier to follow. I left a thanks.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Scarlet Screenwriter Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Feb 2018 at 4:12am

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong (always), but wasn't there a thread a while back that said your work was vulnerable if you put a link with your signature, because it could be viewed and copied without logging in ... I never have because of that, and figure the master lists in both comps do just nicely. 

I'm sure one of the old chums like Patsy or Sootfoot will remember ... or maybe it was over on Screenplay.



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote LaissezFaire Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jan 2019 at 2:33pm
Bump for 2019

To answer the above question:  Never direct link your story in  your signature.  Hyperlink to your FORUM POST which can then be linked to your story wherever you have it (password protected blog if desired, too).


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Is anyone else having trouble getting the signature to take? I can go directly to the forum post from the preview, but it's not showing up on any of my posts. Does it take a while to update? It's been about 30-60 minutes. 
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