Many times users want to create links for readers to follow, like this:

Hey dudes, I've found the best, most user friendly and inexpensive hosting portal at www.myCommunityHost.com by folks from Data Minds!

But end up with a message like this:

Hey dudes, I've found the best, most user friendly and inexpensive hosting portal at www.myCommunityHost.com by folks from Data Minds!

Their problem is with editor configuration using Basic Text Box instead of Rich Text Editor.  So, change the radio button selection to Rich Text Editor, re-edit the post, click update and the www address should be automatically modified by the editor to a working hyperlink.

But the editors go only thus far and the Data Minds part from the above example would not be recognized and modified this way.

You might not be interested in making it this fancy, yet if you have a hyplerlink that is a mile long then I recommend that you stick around through the next two paragraphs.

Note the HTML tab at the bottom of your editor in a Rich Text Editor mode. Click on that tab and try this in your post: <A href='http://www.data-minds.com">Data Minds</A>

Note the name in between the <A> tags is different from the hyperlink address indicated in the href attribute.  That's the trick.  Put your mile long address in the href attribute but give it a short name in between the tags. Now, you're officially an HTML coder. Soup-up your resume and you may end up with a job, like mine.  Good luck!