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Joined: Mar 2006

Hi Guys,

My client has asked me to change the way links work on his website, if you go to http://www.4design4style.com/boutique.php?sub1menu=4+Fine+Food+%26+Wine&sub2menu=4+Bread&sub3menu=4+Europe&Submit=Go
you will notice the page is screwed up because one of the urls on the top entry is really long. my question is how can i change the system so that instead of it displaying the whole web adress, i want it to display "View Website"

Can anybody provide any help or advice on this one please? many thanks.

Kind Regards,

Andy MacDonald
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You can configure your .htaccess file to use shorter URLs using modrewrite if you are running on and Apache server.

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yeh i already use mod rewrite on the main url to the site, but i didnt know you could do this on urls to other external websites?

Kind Regards,

Andy MacDonald
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htaccess will not affect links to external websites.

Do you have access to edit the HTML for that entry? Or does it use something like bBcode?