You know those long urls?
Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it
break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back
together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in
the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
You are lucky with Blackpool4Me, as your channel will have a short url associated with it, but what happens if you want to send someone a link from another page. Those urls get very long when buried into a site.
CLICK TO GO TO TINYURL
An example
Turn this URL:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP
into this tinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/6
Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? That's the power of TinyURL!
Can't drag and drop? For some users,
such as some recent IE 6 installations, the clicking and dragging of
links that contain javascript is no longer supported. To add this to
your IE links toolbar, click the link with your right mouse button and select "Add to Favorites..." from the
menu. Click OK if a security warning alert pops-up (this shows up since
the link contains javscript). If a list of folders is not shown, click
the "Create in >>>" button (see image at right). Now select
the folder called "Links" and then click OK. You should now see the
TinyURL on your links toolbar, if not, see the last paragraph above.
Redirection to any page in your site!
With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any
page on your site. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage
that is at:
http://www.my-internet-isp.com/~myusername
Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like
http://tinyurl.com/3
With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by
appending a slash and the pages filename to it. So if you have a page
at http://www.my-internet-isp.com/~myusername/my-links-page.html, you
can use the URL http://tinyurl.com/3/my-links-page.html and going to
this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website.