You may laugh...

I'm very un-techy, so I feel your pain. First thing you need is the address of the thing you want to link to. I snag this by going to the site and opening the page I want to link to, then copying and pasting the stuff in the address bar. You know where the address bar is? It's at the top of your browser, with the http://www.jargon.com stuff in it. Just point your mouse at it, left click, then hit CTRL+C (hold them both down together).

Now you have the address.

Now open your blog and start a post. You can either hit CTRL+V to paste the address as-is in your post, or you can type in some nifty stuff with a link embedded, like when people just put "Click Here" (and imagine the 'Here' in blue) and when you click Here, you go to the linked site. Here's the code to do that:

<a href="Here is where you paste the address of the site you're linking to">Here is where you type Click here or This sucks or This is why the world is ending, or whatever you want to say to describe the linked site</a>

So the basics are <a href="SITE ADDY">Cute words</a>

Does that help?

Straightforwardly illustrated:


It's really a very nasty, demanding form of punctuation. Typos are hell

But that is if you are NOT using a WYSIWYG blog editor, with word-processor-like buttons and doo-dads and color as you type. If you have all the buttons and doodads, it is possible that you have a link-making button.

First you need an address to link from. It's the part that starts with http://www...

Copy the location of the site you wish to link from by highlighting the address. You can do this by left-clicking the mouse once in the address bar, which will be colored blue. Then right click the mouse and select, "copy."

Now that the URL is copied, you can right click the mouse again and select "paste" to duplicate the address in the body of your message.

For example, the link to this post looks like this: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=3405298

I can also disguise the address within words, like this.

Not sure how your Blog preferences are set, but if you follow the "Copy and Paste" outline mentioned above, I believe linking to other sites will work for you.

Good luck.

ETA: Cross-posted with others who share the same view.