halfadot web design presents: just a few FAQs

How do I link the new image to my guestbook?

The code you got from Bravenet for the link to the guestbook produces this:

and the code you got from Bravenet for the link to the guestbook looks like this:

<A href="http://pub43.bravenet.com/guestbook/show.asp?usernum=3678068255&cpv=1">
<IMG src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/viewbook.gif" border="0" width="100" height="35"></A>
makes the image named 'viewbook.gif' a clickable link to the guestbook with your usernum. In the example above, it's my usernum :)

<A href="http://www.bravenet.com/">
<IMG src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/gbook.gif" border="0" width="100" height="35"></A>
makes the image called 'gbook.gif' a clickable link to Bravenet. And both those images are presently stored on the Bravenet site.

So, to change the image that is the clickable link you need to change this code

to something like this

http://my_domain_name/my_space/my_image.gif - is the complete address for the image you saved on your web space, and the width and height you already know from the 'properties' of the image.

And to help you understand that my_domain_name, etc. stuff, here's a real life example image address for the image below. On the left is how this part of my web space is organised; on the right is the URL for this image.

Typical domain names are:

www.myserver.com

www.myserver.net

www.myserver.org

www.myserver.edu, etc.

If your new image is in the same web folder as the page with the image, you don't need to include the full 'http:// ....' address, just the image name. So, the final image link (using that red and green thing) might look like this:

And it will look and act like this

But do remember that ...

... while you can completely remove those Bravenet buttons, wouldn't it be nice to give some credit where it's due? You could add a little note to any of your site's Thank You pages to say something like 'this service was brought to you by Bravenet Web Services .....'

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