Help!!! Screwy link in blog post (a dumb newbie question)

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  vdovault · Member · Feb 2, 2006 at 3:06 pm

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  I am going nuts trying to fix the link in this post:

  Hard To Get VDO Movies and How To Get Them: #3 ‘The Investigator’

  I am trying to include the link to a previous entry, specifically this link

  http://vdovault.wordpress.com/2006/01/01/hard-to-get-vdo-movies-and-how-to-get-them-1-%e2%80%98hotel-paradise/

  and I get funky formatting (colors & underlining) plus a ‘link not found’ message when I click it

  What the heck am I doing wrong???

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  drmike · Member · Feb 2, 2006 at 3:08 pm

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  It looks like you’ve got the </a> in the wrong place on that link. Should be right before that bit about “Today’s Music…”

  -drmike

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  vdovault · Member · Feb 2, 2006 at 3:14 pm

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  Thanks drmike

  Why does the WYSIWIG editor do this…it makes me absolutely frustrated when this happens — I spend forever trying to find a tiny thing like a misplaced ““

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  vdovault · Member · Feb 2, 2006 at 3:17 pm

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  I can’t figure out how to make the a in sideways carats show up in the posts here either GRRRR!

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  drmike · Member · Feb 2, 2006 at 3:26 pm

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  Um, you may want to try using the standard text editor. That way you can see the html code.

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