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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: TheFifty9Sound on November 06, 2012, 09:33:39 PM

Title: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: TheFifty9Sound on November 06, 2012, 09:33:39 PM
Hello,

My name is Dean. I feel a little dirty posting an "advertisement" as my first post, but I just wanted to let you guys know about a little URL shortener I've thrown together at fulh.am
I thought you guys might get a kick out of it when sharing Fulham related stuff on twitter/facebook etc.
It's free to use and very basic, but it is what it is!

I'm actually not a Fulham fan, but I'm Australian, so Fulham has a special place in my heart because it's been Schwarzer's home for the past 4 years :)  oztralian

I also donated a few pounds to the FriendsOfFulham site as a sign of good faith, and to prove I'm not just a random.  082.gif

Enjoy!
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: Scrumpy on November 07, 2012, 08:15:48 AM
What in God's name is 'a little URL shortener' ?  092.gif Sounds like something I would find with my screwdrivers in the tool box.

...but thanks for the donation. Good man.
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: The King on November 07, 2012, 08:54:03 AM
URL shorteners are always suspicious. >:(
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: HatterDon on November 07, 2012, 01:25:32 PM
Mammy's little baby loves URL shorteners
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: Vinnieffc on November 07, 2012, 01:33:31 PM
If my URL gets any shorter I'll become a lady  :001:
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: FC Silver Fox on November 07, 2012, 05:51:57 PM
Welcome. We've already got a Dean (Mr Ska) but you seem far more useful. Our one is only good at fishing.  :hook:
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: mr-ska on November 07, 2012, 06:09:24 PM
ha ha ha   and banning people  mr FC!!!!!
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: Burt on November 07, 2012, 10:43:54 PM
Me not understand this thread...
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: sipwell on November 07, 2012, 10:55:06 PM
Quote from: Burt on November 07, 2012, 10:43:54 PM
Me not understand this thread...

And the mystery as to why you were made 'global moderator' has been solved  :Get Coat gif:
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: TheFifty9Sound on November 08, 2012, 07:02:31 AM
My apologies! Let me explain what it actually does..

Lets say you wanted to share this link on Twitter.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/11/02/3495978/fulham-ready-to-reward-martin-jol-with-offer-of-contract (http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/11/02/3495978/fulham-ready-to-reward-martin-jol-with-offer-of-contract)

Now, you only get 140 characters per tweet, so the link takes up nearly all your allotted chars. A URL shortener makes that address shorter. You may have seen people using links with bit.ly or tinyurl.com. Fulh.am does the same thing.

So you enter a long address such as..

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/11/02/3495978/fulham-ready-to-reward-martin-jol-with-offer-of-contract (http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/11/02/3495978/fulham-ready-to-reward-martin-jol-with-offer-of-contract)

And fulh.am spits out this link..

fulh.am/6 (http://fulh.am/6)

and it leads to the same place. Nice and short!

I just thought it'd be nice for people who tweet about Fulham news and such, and I thought some of those people might live here  :dft009:
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: LRCN on November 08, 2012, 11:24:02 AM
haha this is awesome mate! i know exactly what this. appreciate it man, as with the donation! will use this for fulham links from now
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: Count Berbatov on November 08, 2012, 05:15:02 PM
Nice! Thanks. Will make use of it
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: mr-ska on November 08, 2012, 05:18:02 PM
Thanks for the donation..  no need to feel dirty...anymore..
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: Burt on November 08, 2012, 10:28:51 PM
Quote from: sipwell on November 07, 2012, 10:55:06 PM
Quote from: Burt on November 07, 2012, 10:43:54 PM
Me not understand this thread...

And the mystery as to why you were made 'global moderator' has been solved  :Get Coat gif:

Intelligence wasn't on the job spec  :dft011:
Title: Re: URL Shortener for Fulham fans - fulh.am
Post by: Burt on November 08, 2012, 10:29:44 PM
And I get this thread now... Good stuff!