djinni's Guide to Hotlinking (D2jsp.org Links only)

How to change: Godly Trade list here! http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=imaginarytradelist=169
Into...
Godly For Trade!

Lets go over it

When you click button on your bar there, you get this:

Step one:
Lets get us an example link, were gonna use the link for the general help forum: http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showforum=34
Now in order to make it a text only hotlink, you take the first URL Tag ([URL]), and change it to [URL=http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showforum=34]

Step two:
Now that we have that done, lets go over putting in the designated text
[URL=http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showforum=34] General Help Forum!

Step three:
Then when youre finished, just add the [/URL] at the end of it, and it will be complete and form this General Help Forum!

Part 1.5: Quick Tips

Adding Color
To add color to this, simply add the colors on the inside the image tags, with the text.

General Help Forum!

Hotlinking to a specific post

1. In a large thread it may be more practical to link to a specific post, rather than send someone the link to the thread, and have them fend for themselves with an immense amount of scrolling.
2. Luckily, hotlinking to a specific post is easy. To receive a link to a thread simply click the post # [This is found above a users avatar, right under their Username within the post e.g: #5 May 23 2010 08:00am]
3. A box will appear with a link, Copy and paste the link. Example link: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=44061822&f=34&p=293367669
4. Clicking it will take you right to post #5 in that thread.
5. To hotlink it, simply treat it as any other link
6. Mod team and trusted list post 5!

Part 2: How to Hotlink a picture!

In this example, we'll use my image of all 4 djinn



Now, Follow the first three steps above, but then instead of having only text, modify to this:

To...


Simply replace any words you would have used, and add in your image with the tags.
Of course you can also mix words in like:
click my djinnfor general help!

Then the words + picture will be clickable. In the same sense, to have words that would not also be clickable, simply place them outside of the tags, rather than inside.