Posting a link..what am I doing wrong?

I click on the url button then enter the web address as requested , then click ok e.g : but when I send the post the link doesn’t appear live………why?
we used to get away with surrounding the address with <….> but that doesn’t seem to work either.
I’m obviously thick

just paste the link, no button presses or tags needed needed – it’ll work ok

singletrackworld.com

in that format you need some text between the ] and the [ to be visible

e.g :[ url=http://singletrackworld.com]some text here[ /url]

or use: e.g :[ url]http://singletrackworld.com[ /url] to just have a link (without the spaces)

http://www.singletrackworld.com
http://singletrackworld.com

great ..thanks
the url button seems to make things complicated rather than easy !

It was being rubbish earlier and not working with the URL thing