dougj wrote:I try to make it simple for me with my bird galleries. I use a Word document as a template and edit as needed.
You can keep it even simpler by skipping Word and just typing directly into PBase's description box in the browser...
but that still doesn't provide the kind of automated link insertion that was being asked about. If that's what's wanted, at least a little complication is required.
One thing that might minimise it, and which requires no external software at all, is an extension which allows you to insert boilerplate text into the description box itself; in this case, the boilerplate would be the anchor tags, with the web link being just a variable that will pop up a dialog box for input.
This is an example for Firefox but I'm sure there's something similar available for pretty much any browser.
I'll admit that even before I had my Word VBA template I wrote the descriptions up in a vanilla Word document (complete with copying and pasting to create the links, much as I expect you're doing) but that was only because I didn't want the images sitting up there without descriptions for any length of time while I wrote up the descriptions directly on PBase.
That was before I realised that if you write the descriptions and paste them into the IPTC Core's Description field in Bridge, PBase will automatically read them. It also has the advantage of embedding the description in the image itself, making it more self-descriptive and easier to load to any other photo sites which also read that field.
dougj wrote:<A href=" https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_sparrow " >Click for more information on this species at Wikipedia </A>
Press the back button on the browser to return to this page"
The last text in green is the HTML code, I added a space after the https so this post would display it as text.
Just for reference, you can use the Code tag in phpBB forums (5th button from the left above the main textbox when you're in message editing mode) to show exact code without needing to alter it. For example:
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<A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_sparrow ">Click for more information on this species at Wikipedia</A>