How should we put a website address into a sentence?

Question

Is the following a right way to put a website address in a sentence?

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Answer 1

The Chicago Manual of Style would indicate that this is perfectly acceptable usage of a URL in a sentence.

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Answer 2

That is a perfectly valid way, but the sentence as a whole is unnecessarily unwieldy. It doesn't read well at all.

First off, you don't need to specify it is a website, that is perfectly clear already. Likewise, the "you can" is worthless ballast. And nobody uses http:// anymore. Waste of space.

Next, I do not visit that URL for problems. You're saying I will get problems if I go there. No, thanks. What you want to say instead is that I should visit to make the problems I already have go away.

Also, it's not problems. That's too generic. An overused and overloaded word. As the URL itself indicates, I go there to ask questions. So say just that. Be clear and specific.

Lastly, it's not only questions about grammar. I can also ask about punctuation, orthography, pronunciation, etymology, morphology, formality, politeness, dialects, idiolects, slang, and whatnot. Grammar is not a catch-all term for "something and anything with language". Grammar is only one very specific aspect of language.

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