What is wrong with my signature?

[youspeakmylanguage]

The "a href="..."]
Am I doing something else wrong?

Thanks!

[shoelace414]

perhaps if they were instead less than and greater than of []

(they showed up in the preview)

[youspeakmylanguage]

2. Nope...

...that doesn't work. But thanks for the suggestion!

[billyskank]

1. You've got an extra slash at the end of your opening [a] tag.

That might be it.

[youspeakmylanguage]

3. You mean the "/" at the end of "webstandards.org/"?

If that's true, you've got to be kidding me - that would be some bunk HTML code. That "extra slash" tells the site's server to search for the default "index.html" file of the domain. If that slash isn't added, then the server will try to retrieve webstandards.org as a file rather than a directory.

[billyskank]

4. Told me, didn't it!

:D

[billyskank]

7. Oh wait,

in that case, it looked like you had a space between the rest of the URL and the slash. That can't be right, can it? I see it's different now anyway.

[youspeakmylanguage]

12. For some reason DU puts that space there sometimes...

Ironically, it seems as though the website to which I'm trying to link is exactly the site that some of DU's coders need to read. This mishmash of HTML is ridiculous.

[Wheezy]

5. you need

the word link and a colon after the first bracket.

<link:youraddy.com/|Your Addy> (use brackets instead of chickenlips)

[youspeakmylanguage]

6. That's almost working!

So it would be...

<link:http://www.webstandards.org/|> ?

That isn't quite working...

[Wheezy]

8. take off the ' http://www. '

<link:webstandards.org/|Web Standards>

Web Standards

[youspeakmylanguage]

9. It's still not working for the image...

Is that for text links only?

[Wheezy]

10. What is your image address?

:D

[youspeakmylanguage]

11. Here you go...

.ttp://photos11.flickr.com/14483047_7a8675ed81.jpg

[Wheezy]

13. Sorry--got interrupted for a bit...

And my apologies for not understanding what you were attempting to do earlier.
This should do it for you.


put brackets around this, and replace the '.' with the letter 'h' at the beginning of the photo address:
link:webstandards.org|.ttp://photos11.flickr.com/14483047_7a8675ed81.jpg

[youspeakmylanguage]

14. :-)

IT WORKED!!! Thank you so, so much! You rock!

[Wheezy]

16. Aww, go on.

No, really. Go on. :D

(you are most welcome)

[Ediacara]

15. DU uses a different (and way easier) syntax

use:

[link:www.site.com | The Name You Want to Appear In Blue]

In the URL, leave out the http://