HNT #12: Click-Through How-To

Someone commented on one of the other HNTers that they needed to learn that clickthrough thing, so I thought I'd share how to do that, at least for those using blogger. The process could be similar with other blog tools.



So, with blogger I add a picture, could be from a website, or could be from my computer. Elsewhere, I have the NSFW photo with its own URL. I'm using flickr (not the same account I use for family-safe photos). To get a specific URL in flickr, look at that photo, click on "all sizes" then click on the size you want. You'll find a box with a static URL for the photo that you can copy. Back in blogger, I select the front page photo, click on the add-a-link button, and paste the URL for the hidden photo.



I thought briefly about adding Snap to my blog. This is a search engine that allows you to add some html to your template, then when people hover over your links they will see a little window of the destination web page. Then I remembered the clickthrough photo....not gonna work for me. Oh, wait. Snap! I just checked out the FAQ. It does not provide previews for the same domain. Maybe I will give it a try after all.

[so I remember: anytime I don't want the snap preview, in the html for the link, before href, add this: class="snap_nopreview" ]

I was inspired by the Mystery Guest (Osbasso did a click-through) and by Tom's C to show a little, or my case big, peekaboo flash.






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