Help w Banner ad

[polarcat]

I am New to all of this (I am an electrical contractor)

I designed a banner ad for myself (photshop), looks good functions well.

here is my issue/question?

How can I send it to someone to post on there site (code?)
how do I make it so it is clickable and directs them to my HomePage.

the only hting i have so far is the banner and the HTML code that photoshop spits out.

Explain in laymens terms please, if possible. I appreciate the help.

Joe

[Ascendancy]

I am guessing all you want is for the image to just link to your websites homepage. If that's the case, here is the code, and I'll explain afterwards what it all means. It's pretty simple, everything in bold is something that you must input yourself


<a href="your websites URL"><img src="source of the image" border="0" /></a>

The first part, a href, is just saying that whatever is wrapped inside of the "a" tags will be a link to something. the img src says that you are defining an image, and the source leads to the directory of where the image is located, such as:

images/ad.jpg

If you want people to be able to copy this code so that way they can put it on their website, just take all that code and put it inside of a text area:


<textarea rows="4" cols="30">
<a href="your websites URL"><img src="source of the image" border="0" /></a>
</textarea>


Hope this helps, post back with any questions.

[polarcat]

yes I have another question

"Source of the Image"?

like I said I made the image in photshop but where do I put it or download it? right now it is only on my hard drive. I have the HTML code that photshop shows when you preview it.

I tryed to copy it and put it on my site for a test run and the image does not show just a image box with an "X"

[Ascendancy]

Well that depends on where you put the image on your site. Did you put it in the root folder? If so, just make the source the images name.

If not, where is the image on your site? Most people have an images folder, and inside that is where all the images go. In that case, the source would be something like this:

"images/your image.jpg"

Post back if you aren't sure how to tell where your image is located, or any other questions.

[polarcat]

Well that depends on where you put the image on your site. Did you put it in the root folder? If so, just make the source the images name.

If not, where is the image on your site? Most people have an images folder, and inside that is where all the images go. In that case, the source would be something like this:

"images/your image.jpg"

Post back if you aren't sure how to tell where your image is located, or any other questions.

Thats just it I have not put it anywhere. I have it saved in my photshop file. I do not know where or How for that matter to put it on my site. to make it available for marketing to others.

Please Help.

Thank You
Joe

[Ascendancy]

Well first, Do you mean that you have it saved as a .psd file? To fix that, don't do anything with exporting it as HTML code, because that will just turn out horrible. Instead, go up to the top menu and choose File>Save For Web...

Then choose a .jpg and call it "banner.jpg", and save it anywhere that you can find it easily. Then go to your website's host and make a new folder called "images" and upload the banner to that folder. Then add the code I posted before to the page you want the banner on, and it should show up.

Hopefully this is what you meant by having it saved in a Photoshop file and not as a regular image, but post back if I missed something.

[louannepovie]

Yes, that helped. I am trying to find out where are the references posted for a website? Sometimes, I can't find it unless it specifically say reference. Are there other words I should be looking for i. e. "sources"?


:confused:
Thank you