The specific lesson and the more general one When I wrote I pasted in a URL and was much later surprised to see the box and picture and all that distraction in it. I was just expecting to have a clickable link. article name What I wanted can be achieved by putting in text and adding a link to it. I didn’t understand the difference. That is a useful small lesson. I’ve learned it. Had I looked at the article after it published I wouldn’t have been surprised a week had passed and various readers had already seen it ugliness. So the bigger lesson is that I should have looked at the actual publication form right after its was published. There is a bigger lesson about checking my work. It’s an important lesson. I don’t think that I have learned it but I trust I will keep getting opportunities to do. This tips is part of a sequence. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 You might find others or them them useful or interesting or at least amusing.

Tip #3: URLS vs linked text

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