There are several ways to link to a web site or another journal in an entry.
You can insert URLs (Internet addresses) directly into your entries, and they will automatically become links. For this to work, the URL must begin with "
http://" or "
https://". (You can turn off this behavior in individual entries as described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=26.)
Another way to insert a link is to use HTML tags. For example:
<a href="
http://www.example.com/">My Homepage</a>
This will create a link with the text "My Homepage" which, upon being clicked, will lead to
http://www.example.com/. In order to use this tag, you must replace the link and text with your own link and text.
This technique can be used to link to the journal of another user:
<a href="
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/">This is an account specifically reserved for FAQ and Support examples!</a>
This will create a link to the journal of the user "exampleusername", and the link will have the text shown between the opening tag (<a>) and the closing tag (</a>).
You can also use these tags to make an image into a link, by putting the code for the image between the opening and closing tags. For example:
<a href="
http://www.example.com"><img src="
http://www.example.com/image.jpg" alt="title or description" border="0" /></a>
For an explanation of the code for an image, see
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=6. If you would like a border the color of a link to appear around the image you are using as a link, you may change "0" to a positive number.
Note that any images you would like to use as links must be uploaded to a webspace provider that allows remote loading. See
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=130 for information on image loading requirements.
There are also special LiveJournal-specific tags and URL forms you can use to make links to different LiveJournal pages, including user and community journals. These are described in
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75.
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