Article on weird text and bizarre links

Two Solutions to Weird Text and Bizarre Links in Web Site Building

As the creator of several web sites, I can say that I learned (and still do) a lot through my trial-and-error experiences. However, a tech-savvy I am not. I often have to rely on others who are technological experts.

But I like to share what I do come across in my web site building treks that can help others. It might save many of you some frustrations. There are two problems I recently experienced that I want to share today.

The first one is the importing of articles I wrote in Notepad into my web site. It took me ages to clean up the line spacing and extra carriers mid-sentences. I talked to many folks about it and nobody could tell me what the problem was. I asked on a popular Forum I use and there too, no one knew. Many told me about other writing pads that I should use and gave some links to them etc... Well I tried them but the learning curve was so great that I just threw my hands up in the air in frustration. That was quite a while ago.

The good news is that just recently, by accident I found the solution. And it is very simple - isn't that the way it usually is! For some reason, I thought of clicking off the "word wrap" in the "format" menu feature of NotePad. Then when I highlighted my article, pasted it in my web site -- presto, the whole thing was perfect with all it's proper paragraphs. I did not have to go through it line after line deleting spacing and false paragraphs any more!

The other tip I want to share with you all is a very important one.

I recently had a problem with a link to a product I just set-up on ClickBank. I followed everything CB instructed me to do, set my link up on my web site, but it didn't work. I checked and re-checked until I was sure I had done everything right. Then I wrote to CB and told them the problem. I got an e-mail back that everything was correctly entered on my link but that there was a coding problem and I had to find an expert to fix it.

Well, off I went again to the Forum, but no takers. I tried a variety of other possibilities but no luck there either. Then I remembered a book I had purchased a while ago to do with computer IT security and I got in touch with the author. From what I had seen in his book, I figured if anyone would know about this, it would be him.

To make a long story short, after a bit of email exchange, I did receive the solution. And here's the tip for you from all this. If you have some weird problems with links that you've copied from someone else, like an affiliate tool box for example, and correctly pasted it into your web site but it doesn't work and you can't see where the problem is... just paste the link into your notepad first, re-type any characters that are not ordinary letters (such as quotation marks for example), type your own IDs that need to be changed, and then highlight and paste it into your web site. Then you'll have a clean link.

Actually, if you want to be even more technical about this, you can check your page "view selection source" in your web site on that link and you will see the "unseen" codes that were added to your link. Now, don't ask me anything beyond that because I don't know. If you're an expert, you'll probably find this to be child play, but if you are someone who is struggling with these issues on your way up to success in web site building, you'll appreciate my herein contribution. To your success!

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