How the hell do I.............

[bull996]

Make a link shorter?

I am trying to paste a link to Google maps, but the link is about 4 lines long?

I want to make it nice and short?

[DocJock]

www.tinyurl.com

[bull996]

Thank you

[CurvaParabolica]

Or format it like:

[url]any text you like|http://......

And it'll come out like

any text you like