Publish a Web Album Using Adobe Photoshop or Macro

Publish a Web Album Using Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Dreamweaver Part 3

by: Robert Kennedy

So now we have you pile of images looken real good, nicely organized in directories with an index.htm file, nice. Are we ready to publish this on the net? Well, yes…but. There always is a but. Here are a couple of suggestions that will help you enhance your online photo album.

1) Make sure your album (folders and all) are in the correct location with the website contents that you publish from, usually it is best to create a new folder in the root of the domain that will display the photo album online.

2) Fire up your favorite web editing program. In my case it is Dreamweaver so I will use this program as an example. If you are using GoLive, Front Page or any other web editing program you have to equate it to Dreamweaver’s examples.

3) Open the index file. Have a look. If there are any cosmetic changes you want to make do it now. Here is an example of an Adobe Photo album; http://www.weprintcolors.com/screens/screen_ps_photo_album_sample.htm . Here is an example of a Dreamweaver Photo album http://www.weprintcolors.com/screens/screen_dw_photo_album_sample.htm .

4) Open one html page from the ‘pages’ directory. Have a look. This time what you are looking for is ‘Global’ changes that you would like to make. By global changes I mean changes that can be implemented using the ‘find and replace’ feature. Remember that each one of the auto generated webpages is still basic html. The great part about this is the code is consistent, so find and replace is easy. The first find and place is for ‘text’ only. What we are looking for is improper grammaticism such as .gif or .jpeg appearing in the body. Often Photoshop and Dreamweaver will create this automatically unless you turn it off. If not, no biggy we’ll do a find and replace. ‘Find’ the word .gif and replace it with nothing (no value).

5) This one is for the advanced webmaster. Look carefully at an html page within your ‘pages’ directory after you have done your facelift. Create a couple of include files. Plan on placement, sizing, content etc within this page. The reason you may wish to do this is for common footers, banner advertising or any other use you may have to update all files from one. Once you have your webpage figured out, use the find and replace feature again to place your include files.

6) In the photo album created in Dreamweaver You will notice a line of code that reads as follows (in tags) meta httpequiv=กContentTypeก content=’text/html; charset=iso88591ก. You can find and replace this with your Meta tag keywords and description. In Photo shop it looks like this (in tags) META name=กgeneratorก content=กAdobe Photoshop(R) 7.0 Web Photo Galleryก

Once you have completed your photo album employing the above noted tips you are ready for the search engines to crawl your website and understand your subject matter. Here are a couple of examples of photo albums I have built:

http://www.cardtemplates.com/business_sets/index.htm

http://www.cardprinting.net/

http://www.printinglogos.com/logos_start.htm

http://www.stockphotowarehouse.com/

http://www.weprintcolor.com/buscard_samples/

http://www.weprintcolor.com/buscard_examples/index.htm

Happy photo album building 😉

About The Author

Robert is regarded as an industry expert is print and design. Online since 1999, Robert was one of the pioneers that brought graphic design tools to the web. For online graphic design solutions visit http://www.weprintcolor.com/.

This article was posted on December 11, 2004

by Robert Kennedy

Clickbank Vendors: Two Simple Ways You Can Help Af

Clickbank Vendors: Two Simple Ways You Can Help Affiliates Protect Their Sales.

by: John Hocking

1) How To Remove Your Affiliates Clickbank Id From The URL.
As a merchant, you can hide the clickbank affiliate id for your affiliates by creating a redirect page and pointing your default hoplink to the redirect.
When some uses your hoplink http://hop.clickbank.net/?affid/yourid, the cookie will be set and they will land on your redirect page.
The redirect will send them to your domain without adding the ?hop= information. The cookie is already set and does not need to be shown.
This will help protect your affiliates commission and give your site a more professional appearance.
In the code examples below, you will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then symbols.
Create a file called hoplink.php
Add the following code

[?php
header(กLocation: http://www.yourdomain.comก);
exit;
?]

Upload hoplink.php to the root of your domain.
Login into your clickbank account.
Click to view or modify your account settings.
Click to modify your account.
Under Business Info, change the url of your website to be http://www.yourdomain.com/hoplink.php
Click on save changes.
Now when a visitor clicks on a hoplink, it appears that they came directly to your site and the affiliateกs id is no longer exposed. For this technique to be completely effective, the affiliate needs to cloak the hoplink as well.
2) How to Cloak Your Clickbank Vendor Id Using PHP
Most clickbank affiliate theft is caused by the fact that is easy to rebuild a hoplink and get credit for your own purchase. All you really need to know is the vendor id.
All you have to do is look at the source code of a typical sales link and you will see the vendor id.
For example: http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Description
To rebuild the hoplink you simply use http://hop.clickbank.net/?AffiliatesId/YourVendorId
Now when you click on the hoplink and the original affiliate has lost a sale.
As you can see, without knowing the vendor id, you can not successfully rebuild the hoplink and the affiliates sale would be protected.
Below is an example of how to do this in PHP.
You will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then symbols.
Create a file called order.php
Add the following code

[?php
header(กLocation: http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Descriptionก);
exit;
?]

Just replace YourVendorID with your Clickbank ID
Replace 1 with your product number
Replace Product_Description with your Product Description
Upload order.php into the same folder as your sales page.
Now link to order.php instead of using the raw order link and your Vendor ID is never exposed
This will make it very hard for affiliates to rob other affiliates of their commissions.
I encourage you to make these simple changes to protect the commissions of your affiliates.
Copyright 2004 John Hocking

About The Author

John Hocking is the creator of http://www.guidetoebookmarketing.com, a resource site on creating and marketing ebooks. You will find hundreds of resources, articles and ebook reviews. Learn how to create viral ebooks at http://www.viralebook.com

This article was posted on May 14, 2004

by John Hocking