Banner
Codes Tutorial
(or how to display a banner on your
page or signature)
by DreamMint
Sept. 12, 2007
A
few people have asked me how to put a banner on their IMVU homepage,
how to put a banner in their signature in the IMVU forums...and also
how to put the html code on thier homepage so that visitors can copy
the code and put the banner on their own homepages. So this
tutorial attempts to cover those three things.
This tutorial assumes that you've already designed a banner.
Step
1 - Upload Your Banner to an Image Host
The
first thing you're going to need is an image host. There are
many places out there to host your images. One of the
most well known is www.photobucket.com.
But you can also search the
internet for others if you like.
Choose
your image host and follow the instructions there for uploading it and
finding out what the url address for your image is. Step
2 - Linking your banner to your products page
To
post your banner on your homepage or other webpage you'll need to use a
bit of html code. Down below I've provided an example of what
your html code should look like.
Replace
the parts in red with your information. Where it says
"http://yourwebsitehere.com" put in the website address you
want people
to go to when they click on the banner. Where it says "http://yourimagehost.com/youralbum/yourbanner.jpg"
replace it with the url address of where your image is at.
And where
it says "Click to View My Products" you can either
leave that as is or change it to whatever else you want it to say.
<a href="http://yourwebsitehere.com"
target="_blank"><img
src="http://yourimagehost.com/youralbum/yourbanner.jpg"
border="0" alt="Click
to View My Products"></a>
Step
3 - Posting your banner on your HomePage (html code) To put the html code shown above on your
homepage simply choose where
you want to put it such as your "About Me" area and click on "Edit" and
then on "Edit Custom HTML/CSS" then enter the html code there. (Optional)
Making a Textbox for Copy and Paste You
may have seen on some developers/content creators pages where they
have a little box with code to their banner that people can copy and
paste in order to put the banner on their homepage too.
There are a
few ways of doing this. (Note: the method I used to have posted
here for doing this apparently was likely to break IMVU
homepsages so that way is no longer shown here.)
The real easy way to do this is to use a banner code generator to do it
for you such as this one found here http://www.myetag.com. Below is an example of one I made with it.
Here's a simplified version of the code used on http://www.myetag.comif you'd rather use it.
Step
4 - Posting your banner as a signature (aka sig or siggy) on the forum
using bb code If you want to put your banner in your
signature when you post on the forums you'll need to use what is known
as bbcode.
Scroll down to the bottom of the forums and find where it says
"Profile" and click on that (do not try to edit your signature in the
"Account" area at the top of the screen or it won't work).
Enter in the BBcode below into the
Signature area.
