I notice a lot of people in blog comments still paste whole URLs rather than trying to create a text hyperlink. Is it laziness? Against their religion? Lack of knowledge?
In case it's the last, here's the format for a hyperlink:
[a href="http://www.yourlinkhere.com"]Your text here.[/a]
Except use angle brackets <> instead of the square brackets [] . It's very simple.
When I've tried to put a hyperlink in your particular blog in the past, the comment interface has stripped the HTML and not permitted it. After a couple of tries, I would just give up and paste a big gnarly URL. It may be that you have turned on a feature that disallows linking by commenters other than yourself. (Or it could be that I haven't followed your instructions.)
Posted by: Michele | August 14, 2007 at 09:26 AM
Hmm. Really? Works for me.
One thing people forget is the "http://". Or they put the ending slash as a backslash.
Posted by: Mithras | August 14, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Well, of course it would work for you, since you're the blog's author. As for me and other posters, we wouldn't have the same permissions or privileges settings.
Posted by: Michele | August 15, 2007 at 09:25 AM
Go figure. I guess I wasn't doing it correctly before. For someone who's had a vanity website since 1996, you'd think I'd be a little more savvy.
Posted by: Michele | August 15, 2007 at 09:26 AM
Yay! Anyway, there are no "author permissions" in typepad (although I can edit comments after the fact from the control panel.)
Posted by: Mithras | August 15, 2007 at 10:43 AM