Be sure to visit these pages! "Featured Craft Shoppes" - find an alphabetical listing of our special shoppes with a short description of their products or services. "Crafty Friends" - arts and craft websites belonging to some "special friends". "Crafty Classifieds" - New! Craft ads with PHOTOS. Buy and sell your arts and crafts here. "Promote Your Craft Site" - Craft Site Medic offers many services for increasing traffic and sales to your existing craft site. "Crafty Message Board" - looking for unique arts & crafts? Check out our message board featuring quality handmade items from many great crafters across the nation and world. "Craft Business Resources" - visit our crafts online resources page for lots of tools and links to create, promote and improve your craft site. Top 100 Craft Sites Report - the best in arts, crafts, gifts, collectibles - updated every 30 minutes.

Craft Site Medic's Arts & Crafts Banner Exchange Help & Hints Page   Need a Banner Image ??  If you use a website designer, they often can create acceptable banners very quickly.  There are also free banner creation services available (such as Addesigner http://www.addesigner.com) and many professional banner designers, including Penney Layne Graphics at http://www.penneylayne.com.   Help with the registration form User Name: Any word you select up to 8 characters used to identify your account. Write it down! User Password: Any letter combination you select up to 8 characters. Write it down! Site URL: The web address of the page people will be taken to when they click on your banner. Banner URL: The URL or address of the banner to be displayed. Important: The URL needs to end with the file name of your banner graphic - not just the page where your banner is located. (Example: http://www.mysite.com/graphics/mybanner.gif). "No-No's" (common sense rules) Any site attempting to falsely accumulate credits will be deleted without notice. Any site showing no banners will be deleted without notice. Html script code shall not be altered other than changes specified. All member sites must be art or craft related. NO MLM schemes allowed! Absolutely no adult content sites allowed! Adding your banner Banner Specifications: Your banner must be 468 x 60 pixels, must be less than 18k in size and be in either a jpg or gif file format. Animated banners are acceptable. If you need help to obtaining a banner see the free banner creation services listed above. Your banner must be added to your account before it can be shown on other members sites. We will verify your banner information normally within 48 hours. Any displays of banners on your site accumulated during this time will be credited to your account. To add your banner... First be sure that you have uploaded your banner to your server. Login to your account and click on the Edit Account button. Find the box titled Banner URL: This is where you will enter the full URL of your banner. Example: http://www.mysite/graphics/mybanner.gif Important: The URL must end with the file name of your graphic which should be either a jpg or gif file. Only one banner can be placed on any one page of your web site. There is no limit to the number of pages you wish to show your banners on. To display banners on more than one page of your site, follow the instructions provided on the html code page. How to change your account information To change your banner or other account information click edit account. After entering your account name and password you will see a button that says "Edit Account". Click on this button to change your account information. Your changes will normally take place within 48 hours. How to check your account statistics To view your banner statistics, click Edit Account. After entering account and password information, you will be able to see the various statistics relative to your account. Maximize your banner promotion Prominently display your exchange banner on your most popular pages: If all members displayed their banners in a highly visible section of their most visited pages, everyone would benefit! Don't bury your banner!: The worst thing you can do is put the banner on a page with ten other banners. Monitor you "click thru" percentage: If people are not clicking on your banner, perhaps you should redesign it. An average percentage of clicks is about 1%. Some great banners run 7-10%. Spead the word!: Craft Site Medic's ambition is to make YOUR Arts & Crafts Banner Exchange the premiere banner exchange serving artisans on the net. The more members we have, the more exposure you get. Refer your online peers to us! How to cancel your membership To cancel your membership you will need to remove all banner exchange code from you page(s). After removing the code you can delete your account by clicking Edit Account and deleting your account information.   Why not join today?  It's Free Advertising and you get 1001 bonus impressions!