The specific lesson and the more general one
When I wrote article name I pasted in a URL and was much later surprised to see the box and picture and all that distraction in it. I was just expecting to have a clickable link.
What I wanted can be achieved by putting in text and adding a link to it. I didn’t understand the difference.
That is a useful small lesson. I’ve learned it.
Had I looked at the article after it published I wouldn’t have been surprised a week had passed and various readers had already seen it ugliness.
So the bigger lesson is that I should have looked at the actual publication form right after its was published. There is a bigger lesson about checking my work. It’s an important lesson. I don’t think that I have learned it but I trust I will keep getting opportunities to do.
This tips is part of a sequence.
You might find others or them them useful or interesting or at least amusing.