Banner Issues Help!!

[jean26]

Hi everyone,

Ok so I am pretty new to the whole html coding world, a client approached me to design a banner and load it on to my site. Awsome, I designed the banner which looks good I just have no idea how to load it to my site.
I am using wordpress and dreamweaver (for the code). Is this even possible to design just the banner in dreamweaver for wordpress. If so what am I doing wrong

 

[Linda Buquet]

Hi Jean,

I'm not sure you can design a banner in Dreamweaver. Typically you would do it in a graphics program. Also typically an advertiser is going to give you a banner, not make you design it yourself.

Here's a banner at the top of one of my WP blog posts and I'll tell you 2 ways to do it.
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You can enter the code directly like this:

<a href="http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/bidhere"><img src="http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/images/bidhere.gif" alt="BidHere"></a>

The 1st part with href is the link where the URL goes, the 2nd part with img src is the location of the image on your server.

OR you can use Wordpress directly to upload images from your hard drive.
Images Support — WordPress.com

 

[jean26]

Hi Linda,

You are an absolute star, I designed the banner in photoshop etc...but I thought I could send it to Dreamweaver to obtain the code. I am more of a graphic person so html kind of goes over my head.

I got the href from Dreamweaver and tried sticking that in my ad widget thing with no success. I never tried uploading it to my server so I will give that a shot.
Right now the Wordpress image sounds pretty easy so I will give that a go as well. We design a few things for clients kind of twisted so thats why this particular client wanted it designed. Headaches I tell you.

Thanks again!

 

[jean26]

Sorry another stupid question, will FileZilla be the easiest way to send the image to my server?

 

[Linda Buquet]

BE VERY CAREFUL WITH FILEZILLA! Lots of bloggers I know have had their WP blogs hacked right after using Filezilla.

The easiest is to get used to using the WP image loader. No separate step to upload to server. It adds to your server and adds to the post all in one easy step.

 

[Seoconsultant786]

What type of banner issue you are facing are you working on dynamic site or on static site than i will tell you about this.