Daily Archives: December 16, 2020


Links, URLs, and embeds

It surprises me how many writers don’t understand how links work. Here’s a brief guide on some technical (but not too technical) points.

The structure of a URL

Understanding HTML isn’t essential to writing an article. Usually you work in an editor that takes care of those details. But you can’t get around understanding links. A link uses a uniform resource locator or URL. Here’s what it looks like:

https://www.example.com/path/file

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