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Making Those nifty little Promotional Banners

Submitted by sxilverdragonclaws on April 17, 2007 - 15:37

How do we go about making those little promotional banners that you can have on your website for others to take and put on their sites as a link to yours?

I'm caught in a catch 22. I have the little bugger, and I want to put it on my "links" page, but the HTML demands that I pull the image code from an already established page (img scr:"http://www....). Problem is, I don't have that, cause that's what I'm trying to do!!
Does any one have a suggestion on how to go about doing this?
Thanks a bunch!
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It's called "hotlinking" and

by Compugasm - 04/17/2007 - 18:10

It's called "hotlinking" and I have a good example for you. Goto Slither And Friends links page, and the first banner is coded exactly like what you're trying to do. The image is on my website, Super Unit 5000, but the code to display that image is on his website. He's "hotlinked" to the image on my server. Here is another example:

  1. Goto my photo album, and notice each image has text boxes with code underneath it.
  2. Click one the text boxes, and "copied" pops up for just a second. That code, is now ready to be pasted.
  3. Now, goto any page in my comic archive, and click a comic.
  4. Hover your mouse over a comic, and right click.
  5. Choose "View properties" from the popup menu. The popup window will have the name of the file. Notice, it's coming from the photobucket site.

That's the process, now paste the image code you copied somewhere, and see what happens.

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It is SUCCESSFULL!

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by sxilverdragonclaws - 04/17/2007 - 21:52

Thank you very much for your help! I tried doing it as you described, and it worked perfectly. I appreciate your help very much.

See, it worked!

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Thank you
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