It's a rare case of win-win. THEY have sponsors, and you see their ads when you go to the site and click the "donation" button. THE CAUSES get the proceeds because it's cheaper for the sponsors to advertise this way, so it's in their interest to pay up.

These are the two I have marked for my everyday clicking:

The animal rescue site:
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa

The Rainforest site:
http://www.therainforestsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa/82/wa/gotoSite?destSite=RainforestSite&origin=arsTY&wosid=7u6000Nu300ZK300H3&revisionCode=ARSthankyoupg_TRSlogo

Here are shorter links for both of them. The Make A Shorter Link service expires after a while, so these short links may be dead. That's why I'm leaving the long URLs there to cut-and-paste. I will also post the URL for the animal rescue one at the link-spot on the end of this note. Too bad you can't create more than one link per message.

Animal rescue:
http://enigo.com/shortlink?em

Rainforest:
http://enigo.com/shortlink?en

So far, both are working and actively contributing.

Thank you.

To make a clickable link you need to do this (sort of):

[a href="http://www.cbc.ca/"]cbc web site [/a]

In order for you to see what you have to type in, I changed one thing: I used [ and ] instead of < and >. If I had used < and > it would have made a link, like this:

cbc web site

You can't see the code there, just the link, because I used the proper symbols.

The URL for the site you want to link to should go inside the quotation marks. You can write whatever you want where I wrote 'cbc web site' - this is the text that will appear highlighted and will be the 'link' you click on. I could have written 'Coke is better than Pepsi' there, but it will still take you to the cbc site, because that is what URL you used.

See:

Coke is better than Pepsi

Do not forget to close the statement! That is where the [/a] comes in. If you forget to do that the computer thinks that everything you have typed since you opened the statement [a href="URL here"] is part of the command, and it'll be buggered up :-)

And remember to switch all the [] with <>.

When you preview the post, the link should be there as you want it to be - if it isn't (if it's still looking like HTML), then you have made a mistake, and you should find it before you submit the message.

Hope that helps!

BP

I WRITE HTML. I've taken the Maricopa course, and I had to put together pages in a post-grad program where we couldn't use graphic programs like Frontpage. It all had to be written up in Java, HTML and DHTML. I KNOW this stuff....

...and I never even stopped to think "is HTML enabled on these boards?"

DUH.

Bonnie, here's a large trout. You may whack me with it when ready.