Creating a link to a layout

[andyapc]

Hi - I was able to post my very first layout to the members gallery. I thought I might post a message on the yahoo group and include a link to the layout (don't know why I feel so brave - must be all the caffeine I've had today). Of course, I have absolutely no idea how to do that. Is there a tutorial for that somewhere? Thank you!!

Andrea

[Margie]

caffeine will do that!! congrats!! just go to your page, then click in the address bar at the top. (starts with http://www.digital...) and click control and C (to copy) then go to your email and click control and P (to paste). that'll paste it into your text. hth. Ü

[andyapc]

Hi Margie,

I tried to do what you said, but it didn't work. I opened my layout page under "my gallery" and clicked on the address bar, which was then highlighted. Then I hit CTRL+C (there was nothing to click on, I just did it manually on my keyboard). Then I switched over to the yahoo group, hit "post", wrote my message and hit CTRL+P to paste in the link but nothing happened - instead, I just got the print command popup that asks me how many pages I want to print. Does it matter that I usually post directly from the yahoo group - never from my own personal email? I also never see any attachments, only links if people include them in their posts. What should I be doing differntly in order to include a link to my layout in my post?

Andrea

[Margie]

mac or pc?? and i did mean use your keyboard. make sure when you click in the address bar the entire link is highlighted in blue. if not, highlight it first...

[Margie]

your link is below (without the spaces, that's just so it'll all show up...)
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/ showphoto.php?photo=2058 &password=&sort=2&cat=last1&page=2

also, you only need the link up to and including the photo=2058. so you can delete the rest, so your link is shorter and less likely to break apart. so it's

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2058

[andyapc]

I feel like an idiot but I still cannot get this to work. I'm working on a PC and I have Windows XP. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong - I'm following everything you have said. However, when I highlight the address bar (and this happens automatically when I click on it), it is highlighted in a brownish/orangish color - definitely not blue. Does this mean anything?

Andrea

[Margie]

no problem, we'll get it yet! :) you could have different colors, no idea. check this screen shot to be sure we're looking at the same address bar please...

[andyapc]

Yes - my highlighted address matches that one.

Andrea

[andyapc]

WAIT!! Sorry, I just noticed something - I don't know if it matters or not. My address looks like this:
...php?photo=2058...

The address in your image has a slash in it and looks like this: php/?photo=2058

Does this matter?

Andrea

[webmaster]

not sure, but you just need to be able to copy and paste it. instead of control C and control P, click on edit copy, then edit paste in your broswer...

[andyapc]

I am SO sorry to keep bugging you, but: I did the above and it did paste the link into my post. However, when I read my post and clicked on the link, it brought me to the gallery, but it said "no photo specified". Now what????

Andrea

[Margie]

what was the link you were clicking on? it probably broke apart because it's long? did it have the entire link up till the photo=####?

[Amanda]

I just reposted your link for you to the yahoo group. It was just too long and yahoo broke it apart.

[Margie]

yep, you've got it! just delete everything after photo=#### because it's not needed! Ü

[andyapc]

Margie & Amanda: You guys are AWESOME - thank you so much.

Andrea

[Margie]

oh, too funny! sorry yes, control V is paste. control P is print, sorry about that one!!! how helpful was that??!! :D