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Adding Link Exchange banners to a web page

How do I add Link Exchange banners to my WebExpress page?

Link Exchange and other banner sharing programs typically provide HTML source code to help you set them up.

They are really simply images stored on an external web site, with a link to another site.

Such banners are made up of two components. One is an image stored somewhere else on the Web (the actual banner). The second is a link that dictates the action when a user clicks on the banner. There will also usually be instructions for setting it up.

Here is an example of one implementation. They give you this to type into your page:

<A HREF="http://www.banner.com/X039084/banner.map">

<IMG SRC="http://www.banner.com/X039084/logoshowbanner?default" ALT="BANNER" ISMAP></A>

First create the image using normal WebExpress tools. It is specified in this part:

<IMG SRC="http://ad.linkexchange.com/X039084/logoshowad?free" ALT="Internet Link Exchange" ISMAP>

1) For the URL use: http: http://ad.linkexchange.com/X039084/logoshowad?free

2) For Alternate Text use: Internet Link Exchange

3) If there is the text ISMAP (as above), go to the maps page and click on the Server Side Image map checkbox.

4) Click OK. The image will appear in WebExpress as a gray box.

Then link it to their site using the Insert Link dialog. It is specified in this part:

<A HREF="http://ad.linkexchange.com/X039084/gotoad.map">

1) Click on the image you just created to select it.

2) Open the Create/Edit Hyperlink box.

3) Click on the WWW tab of the dialog.

4) Add the URL: In the example it is http://ad.linkexchange.com/X039084/gotoad.map.