Showing off your Calendars - Part I
So you might have created a new calendar, and even ordered one, but how can you easily show someone else what your calendar look likes. You may have seen James post where he is peddling his wares, but you might have also wondered how he did it. For those with a bit of a technical bent, and know how to wield the text formatting used here, here are some pointers that will help get you going to create something like this, which is my ‘Snow’ calendar :
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We are also looking at being able to provide custom pdf previews of your individual calendars that look like this one for my Snow Gum calendar which you could them email around, or just linked directly to.
- To start, this assumes you have a calendar already created, and in mybubble.
- Go to your calendar via mybubble > calendars > edit > buy/preview.
- You will see a preview of the cover page there. You need to view that image on it’s own, and copy it’s url. Different browsers have different ways of doing it, firefox it is right click view image or via ‘copy image location’, safari it is right click view in new window/tab, an IE is via properties I think. Anyway, assuming you can find that, then you can add that cover image to a journal entry, or in the description of other works.
- An example of the url is :
http://images-0.redbubble.com/img/calendars/page:0/product:calendar/view:preview/389217-1-snow.jpg
- This is can then be shown as an image by putting the url between exclaimation marks like this :
!http://images-0.redbubble.com/img/calendars/page:0/product:calendar/view:preview/389217-1-snow.jpg!
- From here you can reference all of your other pages by just changing the bit of the URL that says ‘page:0’, this can be ‘page:1’, ‘page:2’ etc up to ‘page:12’. A total of 13 different pages including 0 for the cover page.
- If you want to arrange these side by side you can use the vertical bars to create a table on your page. Code like :
| !http://YOUR_IMAGE_URL! | !http://YOUR_IMAGE_URL! |
| !http://YOUR_IMAGE_URL! | !http://YOUR_IMAGE_URL! |
- For a journal entry I wouldn’t recommend more than two wide.
In a nutshell, that’s about it! One thing to note is that if you edit your calendar, then you will need to update the image url, as one part of it (the last number) will change after each edit.
James Pierce
Got anything more summery ?
John Barratt
Yeah, I have the odd non-snow picture, I suppose I could nearly make a whole calendar that didn’t have snow in it!
aphoto4you
COOL keep its SNOW….love it…wow…GREAT LOOKING CALENDAR
Faizan Qureshi
That’s a great calendar John and great to have these instructions ready for people who are asking about this almost everyday. :-)
Linda Syms
Its just to complicating for me i am not a computer wiz,i just wanted my friend to see it on the Bubble.
Kind Regards Linda.
brummieboy
Thanks John … that works fine on the journal .. but how do people buy it? :-)))) Many thanks. Phil
Mundy Hackett
Phil unfortunately only we can buy them. You can change the ship to address though at checkout and accept payment from them separately, however you decide. But you would have to pay for it initially and have customer reimburse you. Thanks for posting this John!
MiMiDesigns
Thanks, John! i couldn’t line them up next to each other, but they look fine in a long line – just like my website.
helene ruiz
now can u explain that to a technologically impaired person (lol…that would be me) I have been painting all my life and am just learning this “computer” stuff….dont even look at tv…but i do listen to music 24/7…i created a few calendars but dont know where they are shown to the public nor do i know where the options are for “shopping for calendars” alot of this “computer talk” is a language i dont understand …. yet…. :-(
krafty
Oh my goodness…lol.I am not to clever on this subject but I’m gonna try..have I got my work cut out or what..lol.!!
Charl045
John, where am I adding this information? edit profile? I tried the Journal and put the info in as you said and what shows up is a little blue box with a question mark in it. Also, when I look at my calendar, each page has the exact same url as the cover page..what the heck is that about?..LOL
Betty Mackey
John, your suggestions worked for me. I use a Firefox browser. So now my journal shows my new calendar! Your snow scene calendar is great, will be a hoot on a hot summer day.
Incognita
John, thanks very much for the instructions > it’s a real public service. Oh and Miss September is a stunner!
jegustavsen
Thank you for the information to make calenders more public! Will try.
John Barratt
Thanks everyone for the comments. For those having problems with the individual images, I have just added some info on instead linking in/using a pdf. See this Journal post.
Charlotte : You need to view the image on it’s own without the web page to get it’s URL. The url of the page doesn’t change as you see different images, but the url of the image does.
Cathleen Taraw...
Thanks very much John.
billyboy
Cheers for the info John, it worked a treat… and thanks Cathleen for taking me here!
Shane Walker
How do you sell it to the public though?
John Barratt
Shane : Have a read of James’ journal entry linked from the start of this one. Currently there is no easy way to do it, but this is a ‘work around’ which some people have been using. We will be enabling ‘direct’ public purchase for next years calendar.
Darren Robertson
what about links so i can get people straight to the sales page for it
BlaizerB
is red bubble making these calendars? sounds good…