Hyperlink Help

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  r1zzo23 · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 9:19 pm

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  Hi guys, I’ve had a blog here at WordPress.com for three or four days now and I’m picking up on this HTML stuff. My blog is biggreenmachine.wordpress.com. I’m trying to make a Text widget in my right sidebar that goes under my Blogroll. This is the code that I’m using right now to make this Text widget:

  < a href=”www.celticsblog.com”>Celtics Blog< /a ><br >
  < a href=”www.bostonceltics.com”>Celtics’ Homepage< /a ><br >
  < a href=”www.newenglandpatriots.com”>Patriots’ Homepage< /a ><br >
  < a href=”www.patriotsblog.net”>Patriots Blog< /a ><br>
  < a href=”redsarmy.wordpress.com”>Red’s Army< /a ><br>
  < a href=”www.weei.com”>WEEI< /a ><br >

  I obviously put them in without the unnecessary spaces between the <>s. Now the the hyperlinks show up in my sidebars, but when I click on them, it tries to bring up the page within my blog and comes up with “Error 404: Not Found”. Any help would be appreciated.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 9:24 pm

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  You need to put the links FULL web address in, ie http://www.celticsblog.com.

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  devblog · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 9:57 pm

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  I’d strongly recommend you to not list your links like that. Do it like this instead:

  <ul>
  	<li><a href="http://www.celticsblog.com">Celtics Blog</a></li>
  	<li><a href="http://www.bostonceltics.com">Celtics' Homepage</a></li>
  	<li><a href="http://www.newenglandpatriots.com">Patriots' Homepage</a></li>
  	<li><a href="http://www.patriotsblog.net">Patriots Blog</a></li>
  	<li><a href="http://redsarmy.wordpress.com">Red's Army</a></li>
  	<li><a href="http://www.weei.com">WEEI</a></li>
  </ul>

  Keep in mind that because you can type the URL without the http:// part in your address bar (which personally I think is a bad habit), like raincoster said, you have to type the full URL when creating a link.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 10:38 pm

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  *cough* picky *cough*

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  r1zzo23 · Member · Jun 23, 2007 at 11:51 pm

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  Thanks guys, looks like it’s working fine now. I’m learning by the day…