[nabs-l] Questions About How To Post Links To A Webpage

[Anjelina]

Hi Matthew,
From your message it appears you use Wordpress. Can you explain how to tag links while in a post using Wordpress?
Thanks


-Anjelina
Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 19, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Matthew Dierckens via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I personally find it easier to first shut off the visual editor for wordpress, and then use HTML for my links, headings, lists, etc.
> You can turn off the visual editor for your posts in the profile section of your admin page.
> The HTML code for a link is as follows
> Open tag
> website name (in quotations)
>> Text that you want the user to see
> End the tag </a>
> An example would be
> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/username <http://www.twitter.com/username>">Enter text here.</a>
> You need to make sure that the URL is in quotations.
> Also, Enter text here, would be what the user would see, such as, follow me on twitter, click here to do XYZ.
> I put /username at the end of that website as I do not know your user name on twitter, so you would have to do this manually. Same with Facebook.
> Hope this was helpful.
> 
> God bless. :)
> Matthew Dierckens
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> 
>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 14:07, Kerri Kosten via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone!!
>> I have a question I can't figure out! I write sports for a website
>> which is www.wajr.com. It's a radio station's website. In order to
>> edit the site, I write my story in word, select it, and copy it to the
>> clipboard. Then, I go to wajr.com/admin, log in, select my page, and
>> hit edit page. It's your typical web editor.
>> Here is the problem. Usually, I just copy and paste my text to the
>> website and I'm fine.
>> However, I'd like to put links to my twitter and facebook at the end
>> of my stories so people can click on the link and follow me or friend
>> me on Facebook. This is where I'm running into trouble.
>> At the top of the web editor, there is this huge toolbar with 60
>> different buttons. Then, there is another area where the text is.
>> Apparently, you are supposed to select the text you want to make a
>> link, and hit the "link" button on the toolbar and then enter the URL
>> you want to link to. However, I can't figure out how to do this with a
>> screenreader. If I enter the text area and select something, I have to
>> go out of this area to get back to the toolbar to hit the link button
>> and the text gets unselected. I tried pasting my hyperlink the
>> old-fashioned way by going into the editor, going to the top of the
>> text area and just hitting paste. The problem was the formatting
>> didn't carry over from word and the hyperlink didn't go over.
>> So then, I tried putting a hyperlink in my word document to my Twitter
>> and going into the web editor and hitting the paste from word button
>> on the toolbar. Well, it pasted my link fine, except it posted it on
>> the very very bottom of my page.
>> How do I go about putting it at the top?
>> Basically, if you want to do more than simply paste text, if you would
>> like to say post links or something with a web editor like this with a
>> toolbar with the buttons and then the separate text area how do you do
>> this?
>> I love the "copy from word" button but the stupid editor puts my story
>> and my link at the very end of my page and I need the most recent
>> story and my link at the top not the bottom!!
>> The editor is called Flex CMS. Does anyone have any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> Kerri
>> 
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