I'm old, it ain't that hard. Like this:
{url}http://amarillo.com/stories/070509/new_news3.shtml{/url}
Except use brackets [ ] instead of { } and it looks like this:
http://amarillo.com/stories/070509/new_news3.shtmlBut if you want to get fancy, use a code like this to put a link name instead of the URL. Works well when the URL is 100 characters long.
{url=http://amarillo.com/stories/070509/new_news3.shtml}Lighthouse{/url}
and when you use [ ] instead of { } it ends up looking like this
Lighthouse