Okay … so Xavier has implemented an awesome random banner generator (which shows three works from our portfolios) which can be used as an email signature. Read about it in the Forum
If you wanna use the code for placing a clickable link in your Email Sig file (Or on a web page somewhere that uses HTML code) use your own Promote page to get the code for your banner. If you have any problems getting the Email Sig to work … please post your questions in the Forum topic about that.
Now, for the profile bit you don’t need all this code you only need one part and you don’t even need to use the Widgetinator to get it …. I am going to make it easy for you ;) First you need your Username. That is the text you type to LOG ON to RedBubble, not nessecarily your Name as shown in RedBubble to others. My Username is crackers1967. My name in here is Craig Shillington. So we can’t get those confused.
The easiest way to see what your username is, is to open up RedBubble and click on View your public Profile. Look in the address bar of your browser and it will show you your username at the end of the address:
http://redbubble.com/people/username
To get the link to the three thumbnails randomly pulled out of you portfolio, you use the following link {just put your username in place of where I have typed username
http://redbubble.com/people/username/recipe:banner/username_banner.jpg
If you want to test the link, simply type (or copy and paste it) in your browser address bar and if all is working you should open up a small jpg of three of your own works. If that doesn’t work, try making the second username with Caps. Try again. Hopefully then it works. When it works, THAT is the code to put in your Profile.
Okay …. now that you have the address, edit your profile and where you want to show the three random photos (in the About You box) type an exclamation mark ! , then right after that (without a space) copy that address, then put another ! again without any spaces. Save your profile then view it and see if it works :) :) To turn the banner into a clickthru link … simply add a colon {:} and the link you want it to click to; after the colon (no spaces) Then if anyone clicks the banner, they will be taken to the url you put in there. :) Good luck :)
ian walton, about 1 year ago
magic!!!
Thanks Crackers! now for Gmail attempts!
Craig Shillington, about 1 year ago
VBS No Probs FF(fringefoto) :) :) You were quick off the mark mate :) And you have it up and running in your profile already too :) :) VBS Wooohoooo :)
Charles McKean, about 1 year ago
Fab
dawlishblue, 8 months ago
Craig, thank you. When I get some free time I’ll try it.
Kerry McFarland, 8 months ago
Wow – thanks! This is so helpful. I was wondering how people did that.
Debbie Black, 6 months ago
Thanks for this! :) I’ve already put the banner in my email signature but having it on my profile will be great too! :)
Photomojo, 3 months ago
This is super! Thanks so much!!!!!!!!
Teresa Zieba, 2 months ago
Hi Craig, I can see you have a very useful page here. Too bad I didn’t find it before I started adding things to my profile. It would be a lot easier for me. I would love for you to look at my profile and see if you can find something else to add to this site. It was so hard for me to get it going and it might be of some use for other people. I’m not good at explaining stuff and you are very good so pop in and let me know if there is anything you could use here to help others. Thanks.
Craig Shillington in reply to Teresa Zieba’s comment, 2 months ago
Ohhhhhh That looks really good Teresa :) :) Very nice :)