Good advice redhotpenguin. Moreover, you might want to take a look at this node which shows how to make a hyperlink to another node on perlmonks.

If you use style1, it causes minor hassles if someone clicks on it while logged into perlmonks.

### style1
<a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/">foo link</a>
[download]

### style2
[id://17441|foo link]
[download]

The perlmonks FAQ chock full of useful tidbits ... it's useful to glance at it every so often, in addition to regular visits to search and super-search.