Resizing photographs for affiliate links

[Marcia]

The instructions say not to modify any of the code in the links whatsoever or they will not properly reflect the clicks. However, when the links are to photos and/or graphics housed on the company's site, they're generally much too big.

In spite of their warnings, does it have any effect to modify the code linking to the graphics to include height="0" and width="0" ?

[JamesR]

It may be best to contact the vendor regarding this. Most of the time they will let you alter the graphics if you just ask.

[Marcia]

James, I resize them if I put them on pages without the link and just link with text, but that means saving the photo, opening Photoshop, modifying, resaving, uploading, etc.

[Drastic]

Do you have a text link option when creating your links? If so, just use that code and use your own images.

[eljefe3]

Marcia,

I have never seen a problem with resizing any of the graphics as if you specify the height and width attributes, than that is what the browser displays.

If you are putting in the time to build content etc. I'd recommend taking a minute to save the image, edit to your liking and upload to your server when you upload the content.

This way the image will load at the same time as your image. There's nothign worse than when one page is pulling from 3 or 4 servers and some items don't load.