How to hyperlink?

I want to have a link that doesn't show the actual address, just text or a pic that you can click.
How do you do that?

I google searched but I just found things like

" <a href="address">link text-To/a>"

And I tried to put that in my signature with the address and what text I wanted but it didn't work.

+rep for first to help me.

 

get the link you want, highlight the words you want to link and press the globe with the paper clip looking thingy in the reply bar

 

Thank you!

 

Been a while, but let's try.

<a href="http://google.com">http://google.com</a

This is a good example, but to finish it off, just place another ">" at the end of it, and instead of the google link, place the link you want and were the quotes are put in the text you want.

Edit, his way works well too, lol.

 

no problem. I was here for almost 5 months before I figured it out

 

<a> tags don't work in the forum because it doesn't allow html tags to be parsed. For the forum, you use url tags:

[url]http://www.google.com[/url]
Looks like this:
http://www.google.com

You can add text by entering the url in the open tag after an "=" and then put text you want to show between the tags. Like this:

[url=http://www.google.com]Google[/url]

It looks like this:
Google

You can also surround an image (img tags) with the syntax above. That will make your picture clickable.
[url=www.google.com][img]http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images22/OldeEnglishPocketBeagleUSAPuppies2.jpg[/img][/url]

Looks like this: