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[edit] What is a hotlink?

• It is a link to another web page that is embedded in a word or a string of words.

• Usually it is indicated by a different font colour (often blue) and by underlining.

• For example, if a hotlink was created for the words "Multiple Listing Service," the hotlink would look like this Multiple Listing Service.

• When the reader clicks on the hotlink, he/she will be taken to the website of the Multiple Listing Service.

[edit] Instructions

• Let's suppose you're typing a post on the BE forum, and in that post you want to provide a hotlink to Multiple Listing Service.

• When you're composing a post on the forum, you're typing in a box that's called a sandbox. The reason it's given that name is that, until you submit your post, you can make changes, just as you can when you're handling physical sand.

• So in your sandbox, you type Multiple Listing Service.

• Then you use your mouse's cursor to highlight the words "Multiple Listing Serivce."

• Then you click on the icon of the globe (earth) above the sandbox in which you're typing. It's in the same row as the font formatting commands (B for bold, I for italics, U for underlining, and so on).

• When you click on the globe icon, a box will appear on your screen. The box will say, "Please enter the URL of your link."

• Below those words, there will be an empty box (a box within a box, so to speak). This box is a long, horizontal one.

• Into the long, horizontal box, you type the URL for the Multiple Listing Service's website, namely, http://mls.ca.

• Then you click the OK button.

• You will not see the formatting while you're still in the sandbox. That is, you will not see the underlining and the blue font in the sandbox.

• However, if you click on the Preview Post button below your sandbox, you'll see what the formatting will look like once you've submitted your post.