[dba-Tech] How to make a complex URL look simple

And if you are talking about for use in an Outlook email (probably other
clients also) or Word document, paste the URL into the document, right-click
on the URL, and select edit hyperlink.  The Link Text (I think that is what
it is called) is what you would set to Sarasota Herald-Tribune - May 21,
1978.

Bobby

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Hi Arthur,

I'm not quite sure if you mean that he simply wants to have a simple url or
if he wants to implement some code in some pre-existing codebase to do
this, but tinyurl.com lets you customise your urls. Here is an example I
made for you.

http://tinyurl.com/Sarasota-HeraldTribune-21May78

There is one caveat, which is that there is a limit to how long your custom
url is (with tinyurl anyways), so this was the best I could do.


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On 1 November 2011 07:26, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a friend who set a world record in the frisbee department. He has
> asked me how to transform a long and ugly URL into something much
> friendlier. Here is the ugly link, followed by his preferred URL name. Can
> this be done, and if so how so?
>
> "Can I get this link
>
>
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aEk0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=c2cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4766,
2115121&dq=ken-westerfield&hl=en
>
> to look like this
>
> *Sarasota Herald-Tribune - May 21, 1978*
>
> and still link to the same article?  If so, could you show me the code?"
>
> Hoping that it can be done.