# URLs – the long and the short of it

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/05/urls-long-and-short-it/
- Published: 2007-07-05T09:56:34+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Institute of Fundraising has just launched its redeveloped website to its members,
prior to its formal launch at the Institute’s national convention next week.

One teething problem has already been encountered. The website can generate some
very long URLs. These are fine as a clickable link within a webpage, but not very
easy to reproduce in full in, for example, an email or printed newsletter.

Voluntary sector legal and governance trainer [Sandy Adirondack](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/www.sandy-a.co.uk)
experienced just this problem when trying to link to the Institute of Fundraising’s
face-to-face fundraising code in her regular legal update email. She got round it
by using the [tinyurl.com](http://www.tinyurl.com) redirect service, but pointed
out that “the full URL is an amazing ONE HUNDRED AND THREE characters. You can see
why I changed it to a tinyurl.”

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At the risk of distorting our page layout here is the URL for the Face to Face Fundraising
code in all its glory:

`www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/bestpractice/thecodes/codesoffundraisingpractice/
fundraisingcollections/facetofacefundraising.htm`

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