Look what Donna made me!!!

[RachelG]

Donna made me a bee-yoo-tiful button. It's small. It's cute. It's steal-able. (So go ahead and take it!) It's the little one near the bottom of this page:

www.crochetpatterncentral..._to_me.php (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/link_to_me.php)

Just please do me a little itsy-bitsy favor and save the image to your hard-drive instead of direct-linking to it and using my bandwith. Thank you!

Thanks Donna! :hug

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Julie]

Consider it stolen! Great button for a wonderful site! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/clap.gif" />

[rebeccav]

taken8)

[RachelG]

I was so surprised when she made one for me. :mail

I love her buttons!

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Tiffany]

swiped 8)

[bythehook]

How sweet of Donna! I love the button.

[Donna]

You're welcome, Rachel! :blush A great site like yours needed a pretty button. And you had all the nice graphics and colors already; I just put them together slightly differently.

[RachelG]

Well, I sure love your take on "slightly differently", then. ;)

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Donna]

Thank you! :blush

[kariholtz]

YAY!!!! :clap

[shelbyro]

I stole it too! I love your site, and donna's buttons!

[RachelG]

Thanks everybody! :thumbsup

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[luvtocraft]

It's been swiped!

[Frangipani]

save the image to your hard-drive instead of direct-linking to it and using my bandwith. Thank you!

I'd love to start putting others buttons on my blog but don't really know about the whole "using another's bandwith". How do I go about it?
thanks, Bec

[RachelG]

I'm not a 'puter expert but here's my take on the matter:

1. The way it's supposed to be done is save the button link image to your hard-drive, and then put it on your site (or blog) and link to it to whatever the button is "advertising".

The other way (the "no no" way) is to just have the button appear on your site, but you're making it show up by using an image on somebody else's site that isn't saved to your hard-drive. It takes up somebody else's "bandwith"...which we pay for.

Please, somebody with a little more technical experience help me out out here!! :sweat

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Julie]

Bec, you can host your images for free on photobucket.com (http://photobucket.com), or similar websites. They allow hotlinking of images, and is very easy to use. If you were to go to Rachel's site, or mine or anyone elses, and copy the image location of something you like and post that to your website, then the image is still being hosted from Rachel's or whomever's website. She and many others pay a monthly fee to store images, and only gets an allowable amount of 'bandwidth' per month.

It's like an electrical current. Let's pretend your electrical company says you can only use your lights for 8 hours a day, every day and that's it for the month. If you leave the lights on all day long, after a couple of weeks you'll be sitting in the dark. Using Rachel's images directly without hosting them elsewhere would be like leaving those lights on all the time. I hope I'm making at least a teeny bit of sense.

Photobucket lets you store the images online for free, and then provides the codes you need to have the images show up on your website.

[Tiffany]

Bec,

In this (http://p084.ezboard.com/fcrochetvillefrm49.showMessage?topicID=5.topic) topic, Donna wrote a great explanation as to how to post a button. I think we may have something on it also in the Hints and Tips topic, but I may be wrong (late at night the brain stops functioning :p ).

Before you know it, your blog will be full of buttons! :woohoo

[RachelG]

Thanks, Julie and Tiff. I have a terrible time explaining things like that and you two did a great job. :thumbsup

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Donna]

Thanks, Tiff! :) It is in the FAQ here (http://p084.ezboard.com/fcrochetvillefrm47.showMessage?topicID=2.topic). It's written for Crochetville buttons, but the same basic stuff would apply to any other button.

[Frangipani]

Thanks all! Now I can respectfully post other buttons on my blog without using anyone else's "electricity" :nana . Seriously, thata explanation was perfect for someone who is totally learning.:bang

Thanks!!
Bec:wave