If this has been posted already, I apologise.
I'm one of the worst offenders for posting long internet links which means those reading the message have to side scroll the screen. You can shorten the links
Assuming that you wish to make a post which includes the following long link :
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html
and you would like this to show up as the short link BCUK Forums, then after copying it into your post you should edit it to read :
{url=http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html}BCUK Forums{/url}
The BCUK Forums part then shows up in the post as a clickable link, and the rest doesnt, resulting in a more readable post !
Important : You must use the square [ ] brackets, in place of the curly { } brackets which I had to use in the example above and you get this
BCUK Forums
I'm one of the worst offenders for posting long internet links which means those reading the message have to side scroll the screen. You can shorten the links
Assuming that you wish to make a post which includes the following long link :
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html
and you would like this to show up as the short link BCUK Forums, then after copying it into your post you should edit it to read :
{url=http://www.bushcraftuk.com/index.php/Forums.html}BCUK Forums{/url}
The BCUK Forums part then shows up in the post as a clickable link, and the rest doesnt, resulting in a more readable post !
Important : You must use the square [ ] brackets, in place of the curly { } brackets which I had to use in the example above and you get this
BCUK Forums