Branddialectic need help with links and different colored font

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    branddialectic · Member ·

    Dear Fellow Bloggers,

    I am just starting my blog and have a couple of questions. First I did a link and the link did not work for some reason. Not sure why. Does anyone have any insight as to why my link did not work? The second thing that happened is that for some reason the font is a different color than the rest of the font after I have inserted a link. Does anyone know why this happened? Please advise me. Here is the URL to the blog comment.

    http://branddialectic.wordpress.com/category/brand-community/

    thanks in advance for your assistance.

    John Schneider
    Blogger
    Brand Dialectic

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    You only have the opening part of the link code, so all the rest of the text works as the link. Go to your post editor and switch to html. You’ve got:
    Brand community is a relatively new term here is some relevant information on brand community from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_community <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_community"> You can see [etc]
    The link should be:
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_community">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_community</a>
    (And you need some punctuation before “here is”.)

    Two suggestions re links:
    – You don’t need to display the actual URL: you could use a word or a phrase in your text as your link to it, for instance:
    `Here is
    – It’s better to make the links open in a new browser window (so that your visitors won’t leave your blog when clicking on a link). If you use the link button of the visual editor, select “Open in a new window” from the Target scrolldown before inserting. If you use the html editor, the code model is this:
    <a href="URL_HERE" target="_blank">DISPLAYED_TEXT_HERE</a>

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    Oops – forgot to close the “Here is” box. Should be
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_community">Here is</a>

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    branddialectic · Member ·

    Dear Panaghiotisadam,

    thanks for the information. Changed the links as you suggested and they now work they way they should. Still learning so I still dont know how to set up a word to a link but will learn. Once again thank you.

    Regards,

    John G Schneider
    Blogger
    Brand Dialectic

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    You’re welcome. Re word(s)-as-link:

    If you use the visual editor, you write the text the normal way, then highlight the word or phrase that will act as the link, click the link button, paste the URL.

    If you use the html editor, you paste the code model at the appropriate point in the text, then write the word or phrase where I’ve put “DISPLAYED_TEXT_HERE”.

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