Creating a tinyurl link

[Jen Reese]

Moving this thread over from the Movie Group:

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie/message/15019

Heather:
> Carol, it isn't in a toolbar. You go to the website 
> www.tinyurl.com. Once you get to that site, you copy and paste the
> original websites address (i.e. www.yahoo.com or whatever, etc) and
> press the get tiny url button. It will then give you a smaller url
> to post to groups and such.


Carol:
> Thanks. I found that out by Googling. But I think Jen must have
> downloaded something so that she can create the tinyurls from 
> whatever page she's on.


Jen: OK, now I understand what the problem is.  Heather is right 
about the tinyurl.com site.  The page I was describing previously on 
the Movie list was the tinyurl site and not the Moviefone site.

The only thing you need from the original website, in this case the 
Moviefone site, is the address.  So I went to the Moviefone site 
where the trailer is located, copied the address from the address bar 
on my toolbar, then went to the tinyurl site.  I pasted the original 
Moviefone address into the small box above which are the 
words: "Enter a long URL to make tiny."  Once you paste it in, then 
you click on the button right next to the box on the right that 
says: "Make TinyURL"

Now at that point, a dialog box popped up saying something like "do 
you want to allow this webpage access to your clipboard?"  I clicked 
on 'allow access'.

Next, a screen on the tinyurl site appeared saying that my tinyurl 
was created, then gave me the original longer link followed by the 
tinyurl link.  I then copied the tinyurl link & pasted it into my 
post.

Jen