How can I make links to other deviants, deviations, or websites?

There are a few formats you can use, either a link of the users name, displaying the members avatar, or by linking with a personal description.

Avatar linking.

:iconusername: will display the members avatar as a link to their page. Remember, however, that the limit for posting blocks of avatars is sixty four, and this will not work in signatures.

Username linking.

:devusername: will give you the members name as a link.

Text linking.

There are HTML tags which can be used to add a link to something everywhere on deviantART. The standard link will just be in the form of [link]. This is achieved by simply pasting a URL to the page, For example, view one of your images, copy the address down and then just paste it wherever. The second method is to use HREF tags (which will NOT work in the shout box) to give your link a name, for example, copy the address to the image down, and then use this format: <a href="Image URL address">Name of Image</a>

Image linking.

To link images in your journal please follow the code here, and replace the URL Address and Image URL Address with the proper information: <a href="URL address"><img src="Image URL address" alt="Name of Image" /></a>

Pop up descriptions (tooltips)

You can also add popup descriptions with a dotted underline to your links by using the <acronym> tag, and close using the </acronym> tag, the format for this is the following. <acronym title="popup text"><a href="link Url">link description</a></acronym>

So the following command;

<acronym title="Read it, learn it, love it."><a href="http://faq.deviantart.com">deviantART FAQ</a></acronym> would result in the link, deviantART FAQ

If however you wish to use this code without a dotted underline then you need to use the following code below.

<a title="Read it, learn it, love it." href="http://faq.deviantart.com">deviantART FAQ</a> which would create the link, deviantART FAQ