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Be sure to credit your sources.

It’s important.

Copyright issues aside, I thought I’d share a nifty way to do it.

I often just write “Source” and make it into a hyperlink. If I’ve used an extract and I feel the it would benefit my audience to click through and read the entire article I’ll write “Read more…”.

The new Squidwho template uses the Wikipedia Module and it says “read the rest of the Wikipedia article”.

A clear invitation.

Don’t be afraid to give links to authoritative sites. You’re not going to lose your reader. I believe it’s quite the opposite. They’ll trust you more.

But that’s not the focus of this blog post, I may share more on that later.

In the HTML code Squidoo is using CSS to format that link. Which makes it a real nice shade of blue. But also a wee bit smaller than the rest of the text, and also it’s on the right hand side.

I like all that formatting and you can use it too in other modules. Lets say you want the same effect on a “Source” or “Read more…” or “Read the rest of the [insert website name here] article” you can get it quite easily and quickly by sneaking in
class=”poweredby” in your normal hyperlinks.

Where you’d use say <a href=”http://www.lensroll.com”>Source</a>> make it <a href=”http://www.lensroll.com” class=”poweredby”>Source</a>.

And there you have it, a wee bit smaller, a nice blue colour and ALSO aligned to the right.