Thursday 25 February 2010

Sharing Web Page Links in Discussion Forums

Quite often in discussion forums an answer will refer you to some link(s) that provides the solution to, or sheds some light on, the original question. However, there is nothing more frustrating than finding that a link is broken. So now I've been trying to get into the habit of supplying the page or article title together with the link so that at least the visitor can search on it and stand a chance of finding the relocated link. It's also just nice to see what the title of the article is in any case.

The Firefox browser has a handy add-on, called Multiple Tab Handler, that has a feature that allows you to copy the page title plus uri to the clipboard. This is available on the right-click menu.

Here's a typical result of a right-click:

New Recommendations for Using Strings in .NET 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973919.aspx

This saves me from going to the page, then copying and pasting the link; then returning to the page and copying and pasting the title.