Originally Posted by
AnnaBee
Please can you help me to get a clickable link for peeps to join to buy on ebid or to get to the home page to register.....something with a logo preferably. I did have a "join ebid here" when I first joined but I cant remember where it is or how to use it now....duh!
I am in no way computer literate...........maybe you guessed that already!
To make a clickable logo or image link to your Buddy sign-up page thingamejig, get your Buddy Link as Bykimbo says, copy it (Ctrl+c on Windows, Command+c on Mac) then I find the easiest way is to switch to html editor mode and insert it into a line of html thus:
HTML Code:
<a href='http://uk.nine.ebid.net/perl/normal.cgi?ref=heatemyfather&mo=register-main'>
<img src="http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/adverts/images/ebid_logo_vector_flat_small.png">
</a>
In this example, the ref=heatemyfather is a reference to my username, you could simply substitute heatemyfather for your own eBid username (AnnaBee presumably), the image tag references one of the eBid logos on my own website (in reality if anyone actually tries linking to an image on my website they will just get redirected to a picture of a sheep, this is to prevent people from linking to my stuff and using up my server bandwidth, but that has nothing to do with this really), substitute the url address for your own (the location of a picture on the internet, preferably that you own).
This would be if you wanted to include a buddy link in your own web page, if you just want one in the eBid forums then there are much easier (and better) ways of doing it, and should be the same or similar for most other forums too. Forums use something called BBCode, it uses it's own set of tags so normal html doesn't always work as expected. Use the Advanced formatting controls to insert an image and wrap that image around a link tag; on here these are the little picture of mountains and the world with a chain link.. highlight your image tag (once inserted) and then click the link button and insert your buddy link in the box.
Sorry if that all sounds a bit complicated, it's really not that complicated at all, honest!