October 16, 2009
Animated GIF’s are images containing a series of GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) graphics that are displayed in rapid sequence in a web browser, giving the appearance of a moving picture. They are a great way to catch you website visitors attention and to show many product images without having to take up a lot of space on your site.
Here is how to create them using Adobe PhotoShop and ImageReady…
Step One: Compile each image or frame that you would like displayed in the animated GIF on its own layer in PhotoShop
Step One
Step Two: Click on the ImageReady icon at the botton of the tool bar in PhotoShop
Step Two
Step Three: Create frames in ImageReady by clicking on the >> icon and set the display times for each frame. You can also add fading effects from frame to frame by using the Tween option.
Step Three
Step Four: Save the image using the Saved Optimized As option
Step Four
That’s it. If you are using this for a website, just upload it like a normal JPG or GIF file.
There is a fine line between using animated graphics on your website as a tasteful method to display information to your visitors and having them be distracting. We suggest that you use only one per page.
Click here to view premade animated GIF’s that you can use on your website.
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October 15, 2009
Suppliers and Distributors,
We’ve added a file uploader that you can add to your DistributorCentral website. This will allow your website visitors/customers to upload artwork to you and even assign it to a PO that you have in your DistributorAccount.
Click here to see an example.
To add this feature to your website:
- Edit the website page that you would like to have uploader on
- Choose File Uploader from the content drop-down menu
- Indicate the email address that you would like the artwork upload notification sent to (see image below)
- Click Save at the bottom of the page and then publish your website to apply the changes
If you would like a file upload notification on the Home page of your DistributorCentral account that indicates that you’ve have recieved new uploaded files:
- Go to the Account Menu
- Select Preferences and then Account Preferences
- Click on the Orders menu on the left side of the page
- then select Yes for the file upload preference (see image below)
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October 15, 2009
Suppliers and Distributors,
We’ve just added a feature that allows you to adjust the print size on your Customer Orders, Invoices, and Supplier POs. This will allow you to fit all of the order information on one page if it happens to overflow to the second page.
It’s located in the upper left hand area of the Summary Page for your orders.
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October 7, 2009
We have added a new feature that will allow Distributors to do a keyword search in their DistributorCentral account and receive results not only from our product database but they can also receive results for matching Supplier PDF catalogs and Supplier email flyers!
To try this, just do a keyword search in your account. For example, try “magnet.” You will see 2 new tabs above your product search results, SupplierCatalog and SupplierEmail.
If you click on either of those tabs, you will see any Supplier Catalogs or Emails that match your search criteria. You can browse through their catalogs page by page or view all their advertised specials in one area.
This would allow you to access even more resources to research products than we could provide you as a distributor before.
Each Supplier has access to upload their PDF catalogs and flyers, so feel free to ask your favorite Suppliers to do so if you don’t see them currently there!
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You can submit your Email flyers by adding upload@supplieremail.com to your email lists or just forward any of your recent email flyers to that address.
You can upload your catalogs by following the below instructions:
- Log into your account at www.distributorcentral.com
- Go to Products Menu and down to Upload PDF Catalogs
- Browse your computer and select the PDF catalog that you would like to upload
- Name the catalog
- Then select Save to upload the file ( it could take a few minutes depending on the file size)
Your catalogs must be less than 30 MB file size for upload, so you may need to split it up.
Let us know if you have any questions!
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