Often we would like to paste a link to a site of interest that has an extremely long URL.

This sometimes causes the Fodor's computer to increase the width of the page.

This site for shortening links was made known to me by a Pooka named Harvey.

http://makeashorterlink.com/index.php

Copy the long link, click the button and it creates a short link.

hmm...that lightbulb suits you well...

Excellent reference point, ira. Thank you. This has been something I could have used in past situations.

Great tip Ira....

Thank you!
- Sharon

I thought this was going to be about par 3 golf courses in Italy or something ...

Another similar resource is:

http://tinyurl.com/

"I thought this was going to be about par 3 golf courses in Italy or something ..."

or sausages.