How to Add a Link to Your Post

Want to post a link to our book review of, "The 36-Hour Day"? It takes four easy steps:

1. Click the LINK BUTTON.
2. Type "36".
3. You'll get options of titles containing "36". Click "The 36-Hour Day."
4. Click OK.

You get the title set up as a neat link, like this:

The 36-Hour Day

That's all there is to it.

The following is a more detailed explanation of how to add links using the LINK BUTTON.

Words to Know

• EDITOR: The yellow-orangish box in which you write and edit your post.
• BUTTON: Copy, paste boldface and more by clicking the appropriate icons at the top of the editor, called "buttons".
• TOOLBAR: The name of the entire group of buttons at the top of the Editor.
• WORLD WIDE WEB: All the pages on the internet together are referred to as the "World Wide Web". This is what the "www" stands for at the beginning of many websites' names.

The Link Button

In the Editor's Toolbar, there is a button that looks like a globe with a link of a chain in front of it. It is called the "LINK BUTTON" and looks like this:

Click this button to create a link to any page on the "World Wide Web". When you click it, a small window should pop up that looks like this:

Internal Paths - Pages on AlzheimersWeekly.com

The "Internal Path" in the picture above lets you type in any part of a title of an INTERNAL article, video or forum post. Remember seeing a good video about music therapy? Just type in "music" and you will get all titles with the word "music" in it. The title needs to be on AlzheimersWeekly.com or DementiaWeekly.com.

For example, say you want to recommend the book, "The 36 Hour Day". You think there is a review of the book on this site. Type "36" into the right-hand box:

The titles of all articles, videos and posts on this site with the number "36" in them will drop down, like this:

Click on "The 36-Hour Day" and then click "OK". The link will immediately  be inserted neatly into your post, like this:

External Paths - Linking to Other Sites

WORDS TO KNOW:

EXTERNAL PATHS: Links to articles or videos that are on other websites.

URL: The link address that appears in the addressbar of your browser. For example, here is the URL for this site:

www.alzheimersweekly.com

How to link to articles or videos

ARTICLE: The simplest way to post a link is to copy it from your browser's addressbar and paste it into your post.

YOUTUBE VIDEO: If you copy a YouTube link and paste it onto its own line in a post, the readers will actually see the video embedded right in your post. It is that easy.

ARTICLE WITH TITLE:

Pasting a URL may look sloppy and make your post harder to read. To link to a page on another site in a neat, reader-friendly fashion, follow these steps:

1. In your post, type the title to which you want to link the reader. Highlight it.
2. Click the LINK BUTTON
3. Click the little down-arrow next to "Internal Path". Select "URL".
4. Copy/Paste your URL into "LINK" field.
5. OPTIONAL: Click on the tab on top that says, "TARGET". Click the little down-arrow and choose "NEW WINDOW (_blank)". Now, when someone clicks your link, it will open a new window to avoid closing your post.
6. Click OK.

Tada!

Writing posts on forums and blogs is like learning an easy language. After you create a link once or twice, you won't need to refer back to these instructions. In case you do need to refer back to here, you can find it from the top of any page by selecting:

TOOLS >> HELP

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Happy linking.