Creating a image web link

misterbisto

I have just created a new web site, and am trying to swop links with other sites. I am not very computer literate. I can send them a link to my site, however they are asking for image links!! Tried searching on google but doesnt make sense. Can anyone do me an idiots step by step guide?

Thanks

the182guy

It sounds like they are asking you to put an image (e.g. their logo) on your website and link it to their website, so that when a visitor clicks the image, they will be transferred to your partner's website.

If you have used some sort of online website builder then there should be a way to insert an image and hyperlink it. You may need to edit the HTML code of the specific page where you want the image to appear.

Take this HTML for example:

<img src="http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/images/masthead2010/MSEtitle.jpg" alt="Money Saving Expert" />

The above code will display the MSE logo in your webpage, obviously you would change the src attribute to the location of your image, in this case your partner's logo for example. Next you need to make the image "clickable" and when clicked, the user should be transferred to your partner's site. This is known as a hyperlink. To do that you just wrap the <img> tag above, in an anchor tag <a>.

<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/images/masthead2010/MSEtitle.jpg"  alt="Money Saving Expert" /></a>

Notice above the image tag is wrapped in an <a> tag. You can see that the image is linked to google.com. The other thing you can see is a target attribute. Using _blank target this will mean that when the image is clicked, your partner's website (or google) will open up in a new window or tab on the users web browser. This is common when linking to a partner or affiliate because the user doesn't leave your own site.

More info can be found:
http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/htmlimagelinks.php
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp

bingo_bango

From my reading of OP, it appears that what he is being asked for are banner links to his own site for his partners to display on their site(s).

Although the explanation above correctly explains how it works, what OP would need to do is create banners in the size requested. These generally take the form of your company logo, and might also include special offer deals.
You would then either send these to your partners to host (preferable as it is their bandwidth being used) or host them on your own server and use the second example 182guy posted above as the link you would send to your partners.