Hi Ladies!!

I'm trying to put the link to my planning bio in my signature but I'm not having any luck!
This is what I'm doing:
1) putting my website address in the tiny url website to get the tiny url
2) using this: <
*a href="tinyurl">Click here for my bio!</a*> I am putting my tiny url in the quotations
3) when I hit update, I get an error!
Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for the help!!!