Back when I was new to Mudcat, I had trouble, briefly, getting the "blue clicky" thing to work. My links would lead to some other place within the Mudcat site, not to my intended destination.

I eventually learned what the problem was: I was not including the entire web address to which I intended to link. If you copy an entire URL, including the "http://" part, the "Make a link ("blue clicky")" shortcut works like a charm, every time. But the way the "blickifier" formula works, your link won't get outside of Mudcat if you omit the opening code...

And, as long as all you want to do with HTML is to post working links and maybe make italics and boldface, etc., you do NOT have to learn Joe's color-coded link instructions. Just click the blue-clicky link, copy-and-paste your destination URL in the appropriate place, and paste it into your message. To see the link exactly as it will appear in the message, and to test it is you wish, preview your message before posting.