FREE Blinkie for ‘Never Seen Sets’ Offer!

By Amy • August 11th, 2008

WebsByAmy.com has a new look… and some new partnerships!

In celebration of this (and because most of your bookmarks won’t work anymore and you need to come and fix them), the public can have a FREE Blinkie advertising the Stampin’ Up!’s 15% off Never Seen Sets! As usual, members, log in for alternate sizes and codes ‘ready to drop in’.

Okay, so, how to ‘grab’ the blinkie…. shown (left) at 200 pixels wide:

>’right click’ on the photo and choose save (and save it to your desktop). The image name is "neverseensidebar.gif"
>Upload via FTP to a folder on the server (example /images folder)
>Once it is uploaded, you need to place an HTML image tag in your sidebar
>Use the image tag below. And if you actually DO place it in your /images folder on your domain, the actual code would be as below with yourdomain.com being the only variable:

AMERICAN FLYER:
<a href="http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/Never_Before_Seen_US.pdf" target="_blank">
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/neverseensidebar.gif" border="0" /></a>

CANADIAN FLYER:
<a href="http://www.stampinup.com/ca/documents/Never_Before_Seen_CA.pdf" target="_blank">
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/neverseensidebar.gif" border="0"/></a>

Clear as mud? Remember, this will only work if you have the domain and folder (in my sample is yourdomain.com/images) is the actual folder to upload to! Let me know what you think!

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By Marie on August 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Thanks so much! I havn’t had a moment to update my blog with the Never before seen savings! This saved so much time! – Marie

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By Terri Walker on August 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Thanks for the free “blinkie”! It’s a real eyecatcher and my customers will LOVE it! What a neat addition to my blog.

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By Julie on August 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

I tried following your directions for my blog (set up at blogger.com) and your instructions unfortunately didn’t work. I had to save the image and use only this link http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/Never_Before_Seen_US.pdf

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By Julie on August 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

hit send too soon, also the blinkie part didn’t work.

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By Amy on August 13th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Yes, I wrote this assuming that you could upload a photo directly to a server. However you need to link it with Blogger (or Typepad) will do the trick!

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By Amy on August 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

@Julie: I right clicked and looked at the properties of the image you uploaded and it looks like when you downloaded it and it asked you how to save it, it was saved as a .png image, not a .gif (a .png won’t blink).

Try and download it again and take care not to change the file type. Good luck!

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By Nancy on August 13th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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By mandysu on August 14th, 2008 at 9:27 am

Thank you so much for the blinkie! but I must have done something wrong. I have tried to fix it but no luck. It won’t blink and it has additional stuff on it. If you have thime to help that would be great! BTW I would love to have your members only help just have to earn the $150 first!!!

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By Amy on August 16th, 2008 at 9:01 am

The most common error is in downloading it. Your browser is going to want to save it as a .png. Notice that when you right click, what it has as a default file type. You need to change it to .gif

Send me a screenshot of your error and I might be able to help you.

And sorry about the ‘member’ thing, the code is easier to work with but it hotlinks to my server and drives up my bandwidth usage. I can’t afford to do that publicly!

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