[Betty Jo]

<a herf ="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/690278/posts?page=65></a=test>

[Betty Jo]

well so much for my test!

[Lion's Cub]

You're almost there with the linking, Betty Jo. You need a quotation mark at the end of the URL just before the greater than sign, then insert the title, and leave out the equal test. The ending of link should look like this.

page=65">insert title or the word here< /a>

Don't put a space between the less than sign and the slash mark . I had to do that to get the end anchor sign to show up.

Think of your link having 4 parts with no spaces, except one between the a and the h in a href=:

1. Begin anchor < a href=>
2. URL in quotation marks followed by > "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/690278/posts?page=65">
3. Title (or word/words that will appear underlined, such as here)
4. End anchor < /a>

Note that "begin anchor" is < a href=> not, < a herf>. It tells the computer to anchor the hypertext reference in the text.

Happy linking :)