Amanda's Page Guardians

How to Adopt a Page Guardian - Basic Instructions

You should be able to apply these basic instructions to just about any adoption agency on the 'net, but please take into account their own special procedures, which you will find on their pages.

1 Save the image

If you are using a PC

right click the image
choose 'save as...' from the popup menu
save the image into your web directory

If you are using a Mac

click and hold or ctrl-click the image
choose 'Save this Image as...' from the popup menu
save the image into your web directory

Do not link my images into your pages. You must save it into your own web directory.
There are a whole lot of reasons for this, but the most important to you is probably that I change these pages around a lot and you will end up with a broken image.

There's a very informative and well written page here which can explain this to you better than I can. Please take the time to visit Billy Bear's Clipart FAQ.

Transparent Guardians: If you click on one of the Dark Guardians she will take you to her sister who has a transparent background. Right click and save THAT image if you want your Guardian to have a transparent background.

The Animated Guardians have transparent background sisters, but these are not animated, in order to keep the file size small.

2 Follow the rules

Remember, these are just the instructions for MY guardians. Other pages may ask you to wait until they send you the image via email. Or they may ask you to take an adoption certificate (another small image) and link that too. Whatever it is that they ask you to do, PLEASE do it.

I have not encountered an adoption agency yet which relinquishes the copyright of their image. That means that whatever they ask you to do in order to adopt their image, you MUST do. If you do not want to do what they ask, DO NOT adopt their image!

Rules:

You MUST link every Guardian back to my page. Compulsory
You must save the image yourself, you do not wait for me to email it to you. Compulsory
You must fill out the adoption form. Compulsory
You may take and link the adoption image (below). Optional
You may add a text link to my page from yours. Optional

If you want to do something else - like have a single page devoted entirely to my Guardians, just contact me and we can work something out.

See the copyright page for details.

Your name is automatically added to the list of parents. If you have already been to the lists, you may need to reload the page to see your name there. The lists are there for you to have your name up in lights, and so that you can visit people who have chosen the same Guardian as yourself. If you'd like your name to be omitted from the lists, for whatever reason, please let me know, but you must still fill in all of the form.

3 Edit your page

Place the image into your page. If you are using a WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet (WYSIWYG) editor like Netscape place the image where you want it and link it to the adoption agency where you found it... in this case

http://amanda.dd.com.au

If you are using code it should look like this...

Explanation of this code can be found at the bottom of this page.

4 Upload page and image

Put the page and image on the web. You know how to do this already (I hope). It changes for everyone depending on who your web page provider is (Geocities, Yahoo or whoever).

5 Check the link

Get onto the web and check that the link you have put on your adoptee goes to the right place. The most important thing to a creator of adoptees is that they are credited for their work.

Remember: adoptions are run for FREE for no other reason than to make you all happy and to have a little fun, so please, treat any adoptee with respect.

While you're there, check the image also. If it looks a little strange, you may have set the width and/or height incorrectly.

If you would like to learn more about Adoption Etiquette, Diane has set up a fabulous page. I would encourage you all to read it.

Thank you for taking the time to do the right thing!

Explanation of code:

A HREF="http://amanda.dd.com.au" - links the image to the page you got it from. Substitute the url with the appropriate one.

img src="imagename.gif" - tells the page where to find the image, make sure you have saved the image in the same directory as the page it's going on. Of course, if it is a jpg it will be "imagename.jpg"

alt="imagename" - gives the image an alt tag, which allows disabled users to 'see' the image. Also, if people have to wait a long time to see the image, they will see this name while it is loading.

border="0" - gets rid of the blue border if you don't want it. Optional.

hspace=15 vspace=15 - puts a little extra space around the image. Optional.

</A> - ends the link.