Link title

I put a code so my title act like link, but now I have problem 🙂 If title is “Hello” it display Hello Hello. First Hello is link, another is not.

this is my code

<?php
$columns = new WP_Query(array(

		'category_name'=>'Multimedija'

	));

	$count = 0;

?>

	<div class="slides">

		<div class="slides_container">

<?php

	if ($columns->have_posts()) :

		$count = 0;

			while ($columns->have_posts()) : $columns->the_post();

			$count++;

?>

			<div class="slide">

				<div class="slides_thumbnail">

					<a>">

						<div style="width:190px;height:190px;background:url('<?php 

						 $img = get_the_post_thumbnail();

						eregi("src=\"([^\"]+)\"", $img, $arr);

						echo $arr[1]; ?>');"> </div>

						<span class="image overlay"></span>

						<span class="description"></span>

					</a>

				</div><!-- .slides_thumbnail -->

				<h3 class='slide_title'>

<a>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
					<?php

						$long_title = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars(get_the_title($post->ID)));

						$short_title = substr($long_title,0,40);

						if (strlen($long_title) !== strlen($short_title)) {

							echo $short_title . "... ";

						} else {

							echo $short_title;

						}

						?>

				</h3><!-- .slide_title -->

				<div class='slide_stats'>

					<?php $more_comments = get_comments_number() . '  Komentar(a)'; ?>

					<?php comments_number( "0 Komentar(a)", "1  Komentar(a)", $more_comments ); ?> 

				</div><!-- .slide_stats -->

				<div class="slides_text">

					<p>

						<?php 

							if(function_exists('the_excerpt_max_charlength')) {

								the_excerpt_max_charlength(300); 

							} else {

								the_excerpt(); 

							}

						?>

					</p>

				</div><!-- .slides_text -->

			</div><!-- .slide -->

<?php

		endwhile;

	endif;

?>

		</div><!-- .slides_container -->

<?php

	if($count > 1) :

?>

			<button class="slide_prev">Previous</button>

			<button class="slide_next">Next</button>

<?php

	endif;

?>

</div><!-- .slides -->

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