Topic: Tips & Tricks
Creating shorter URLS for posting links on lists
Creating shorter URLS for posting links on lists
Ever post a link to a great website, article or something and have it break all to pieces because it wrapped or got obscured behind a Yahoogroups ad? Then you'll love this website:
Just paste in the long url that you want to post and it'll give you a short one to post instead. I do recommend also posting the longer link, like this:
The short of it:
(tiny url generated link here)
The long of it:
(original long link here)
because while the TinyURL people say that the shorter links will be good for a long time, it is a free service and as with anything like that, subject to change at any time.
There's also Make a Shorter Link which does the same thing but people clicking on the shorter link will be taken to the Make a Shorter Link website first, then redirected to the website you want them to see. There's no ads or anything but the TinyURL site is better (IMHO) since there's no in-between stop.