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pedstersplanet
07-03-2004, 05:33 AM
Why oh why do they insist on putting hyperlinks in their descriptions? As if you look at them when they are processed on a site, like mine, the actual link is displayed - hence mucking my table widths up, and looks ugly... Anyone else have this problem?

Heres an snippet to show you:

Toolbar PageRank: Over-hyped?
Last week, as Brittany tells us (http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20040625GoogleUpdateCausesPageRankMania.html)here ...

pedstersplanet
07-03-2004, 01:10 PM
I must appologise, my post above seems too strong...

It could be that the RSS.php file is to blame... It maybe should parse the descriptions and remove the URL's it finds.....

Brittany
07-06-2004, 09:47 AM
Thanks for your post! We always try to avoid putting links in the first paragraph of our articles... but since it's causing a problem with the RSS feed I'll talk to our designer and see if something can't be done about that.