Url in Widget not connecting

Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be able to offer much in the way of assistance.

sorry, like i said i’m new at this.
here is the site

https://www.harvestvineyard.org

And here is the problem child

https://harvestvineyard.org/%E2%80%9Dhttp//www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard?feature=mhee%E2%80%9D

The quotes around the URL are smart-quotes (or whatever they’re called). Word processors sometimes automatically switch out normal quotes with these to try and make them look better. If you retype (or copy/paste from my example below) the quotation marks and it should work. I don’t know if smart-quotes will look any different here, but I’ll try to show an example.

Currently (with smart quotes):
href=”http//www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard?feature=mhee”

What it should be (with dumb quotes):
href="http//www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard?feature=mhee"

well not quite, but it did change though. this is the new problem child that i got

https://harvestvineyard.org/http//www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard

it no longer has the funky symbols but now it seems like it’s not accepting the real sight or something maybe its in the html I’m using?

‘<CENTER><img src=”https://harvestvineyard.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/youtube.jpg&#8221; border=”0″ width=”180px” alt=”Become a FAN Today!”>‘

well not quite, but it did change though. this is the new problem child that i got

https://harvestvineyard.org/http//www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard

it no longer has the funky symbols but now it seems like it’s not accepting the real sight or something maybe its in the html I’m using?

<CENTER><a href="http//www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard" target="_blank"><img src="https://harvestvineyard.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/youtube.jpg" border="0" width="180px" alt="Become a FAN Today!"></a>

sorry for the double post. lol

Whoops, I didn’t even notice till just now. The colon after the “http” is missing. Should be:

href="https://www.youtube.com/user/HarvestVineyard"

This is unrelated, but make sure those <center> tags are eventually closed: </center>

IT works!! Thanks very much Big Bagel, may you be blessed greatly! And yes the center is closed just later on. I have several points in the widget that are centered.

P.S. Just as a pointer. How do I avoid using smart quotes in the future because I typed the ones I had.

Smart quotes are a real pain sometimes, especially when you don’t know what put them in. As long as you type any code directly in the widget/textbox/text input, in a simple text editor, or an editor made for programming, smart quotes shouldn’t be a problem. Usually, smart quotes are only used in Word Processors and publishing software.

Double check the center tags within your text widgets, there seem to be three instances that are currently unclosed.

thank you very much yet again Big Bagel, and again I wish many blessings upon you.