Displaying user website link in view

Question

Is this fine or is there a different way?

 <a href="Http://&lt;%=Html.Encode(Model.Website)%&gt;"&gt;&lt;%=Html.Encode(Model.Website??"")%&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Answer 1

Seems fine to me, although you might want to check that the website doesn't already start with "http://" as well.

Answer 2

You could write a custom HTML Helper to do it for you.