Say 'Bye-Bye' To Giant URLs

How many times have you received an e-mail that includes something like this?

http://www.blahblah.com/blahblahblah-blah/blah2/nonsense/blah-blah/gobbledygook/yaddayaddayadda/blahblahblah/blah.html

And when you click on it, it doesn't work, right?

Or, maybe you've sent a few links that are more than one line long and the recipient can't access it because the browser is reading only the first line.

In the case of my job, I often send the URLs of Web pages that I have built to my customers so they can preview them. I can't count the number of times I have received a frantic e-mail or phone call back saying, "Ack! I get a 'Page Not Found' error message! What's wrong?"

No amount of training over the phone or via e-mail can help them correctly copy and paste the full URL into their browser window.

It's frustrating, to say the least. But not anymore, with TinyURL.com to the rescue!

This Web site allows you to copy and paste the offending long URL into their system, and a new, very small, one-lined URL is "automagically" generated.

That new URL directs the person that clicks on it to the site you wanted them to see in the first place.

And the URL is so small, it will fit in an e-mail without wrapping to another line.

So, something like this:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?map.x=302&map.y=156&map data=afbX8DbyAoesP8oMVXE9yH15Yqfri%252f0FnbmKKpfMbrjLn0o8BLJ 1%252bTQRc5bB8ZoqtlOeDdZwlJtHLgfMIVHUWlmPWw8uDAvn6M%252bkyj2 OhU7lZS%252fzgR6gc6Gc6UR0nFUKiKZ%252fUA1FA7i4GoxVbNUmI3sVoXm LsVCjdi1tcAxjLEEXFdAvuJU%252bwjYfFeWO15n%252fiFsgXNxKDxWULBF tyxoa65AuWb0a5SU%252ftWdT4P7e8CtC9acf37axZa%252fI2MWC7g54TPL 6YB%252bwcKdZuh60N%252fb83BrfUSLSD%252ffK1nJ16Ma8D%252fc%253 d&click=center

Becomes this:

http://tinyurl.com/6

And you can say "bye-bye" to all that "blah-blah-blah."