discusses the limitations and challenges of working with a low-end 3Dprinter.Time to walk the dog and get the mail. It's cold, but not as frozen as it's been lately. Two magazines arrive - grist for Hobby News tomorrow!
The last advertiser request I'm going to get to today comes from DJD Miniatures Painting Service - they've just sent in some revised banner art (needed to be resized), and they're out newest advertiser!
So I create an advertising account (and private webpage) for them, load up the banner (in fact, it's running right now), and send them the usual email welcoming them to TMP and detailing some of our services.
I've also been trying a new thing lately - welcoming the new advertisers on the homepage. (It seemed like it might help attract more advertisers, plus I knew that a lot of you are actually interested in the ads.) So I set up a welcoming announcement to run on Thursday.
One of the minor challenges with the "welcomes" is finding art to use with them. The banner ads are too wide to fit in that part of the webpage (for most viewers), and "shrinking" the banners down makes them look crappy. So I take a screenshot from the company's website - but it takes some work to get that right, as the greens in the picture tend to pixillate when compressed. I play around with it until I get something good enough to use...
I preview tomorrow's homepage using a nifty little admin page, to make sure everything is all right.