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Linking from other pages
Useful notes if you want create custom link from other pages.

  • 1 - <a href="create.php?f=pic001.jpg"><img src="images/thm_pic001.gif"></a>
    You can use JPEG, GIF and Flash file.
  • 2 - <a href="create.php?f=SomeSubDir/pic002.jpg"><img src="images/SomeSubDir/thm_pic002.gif"></a>
    Tip: use sub directory structury to organize your pictures image.
  • 3 - <a href="create.php?f=demoflash.swf"><img src="images/thm_demoflash.gif"></a>
    This is a example of flash animation file.
  • 4 - <a href="create.php?f=pic001.jpg&template=demo"><img src="images/thm_pic001.gif"></a>
    If you want use your own generic template add "&template=yourtemplatename";
    Note: the demo template is placed in /template/ directory with name "demo.ihtml". The file name extension .ihtml is obligatory.
  • 5 - <a href="create.php?template=friends"><img src="images/friends/thm_friends.gif"></a>
    If you like create special postcards that have many images, texts messages and sound already included in a postcard (You can find this kind of postcard at BlueMountain). You need use Special templates but some options ( title, signature, font face/size/color, back ground music and stamp) are disable in this template mode.
  • Fit web site design
    The basic customization of vCard design is FIT vCard with your web site layout.

    Edit the topper and bottom content to match vCard design with your site.

    • metatag.inc
      It's responsable of content that will be included between <HEAD> and </HEAD> tag.
      What you can include in this file:
      1. Meta tags <meta>
      2. Style <style>
      3. script <script>

      META TAGS

      Do you like use Extra meta tags?

      <meta name="Author" content="Belchior Foundry">
      <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
      <meta name="robots" content="nofollow">
      <meta name="robots" content="none">
      <meta name="Description" content="Your site description here">
      <meta name="Keywords" content="keywords,keyword2,key3,key4">
      <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Wed, 26 Feb 1999 08:21:57 GMT">
      <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
      <meta http-equiv="Window-target" content="_top">
      Note: The Language Char Set meta tag is included in language lib file.

      If you want more information about meta tags see the resources below:

      Back to Basics: META Tags
      http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html

      How To Use HTML Meta Tags
      http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/webmasters/meta.html

      META Tag Builder
      http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/mk-metas.html

      Help 4 Web
      http://www.help4web.net/webmaster/metatag.html

      World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
      http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html

      CASCATE STYLE SHEET - CSS

      If you like include your OWN STYLE tag here too.

      EX.:
      <STYLE>
      body {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none}
      input {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px}
      select {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px}
      table {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; color: #666666}
      </STYLE>

      <LINK rel="stylesheet" href="postcard.css" type="text/css">

      SCRIPT

      If you want include some javascript code, that's the place for it.


      EX.:
      <script language="JavaScript">
      <!--
      function yourfunc(){ }
      //-->
      </script>
    • header.inc
      The content will be placed after <body> tag

      ATTENTION: YOU CAN'T INCLUDE BODY TAG 'cause this tag is used by vCard Lite to include a backgroud image.

      You can edit the body tag attributes in 'config.inc.php' file.

      It's a commom mistake include <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> tags here.

      Pay attention!!! You can't include here because it's won't work.

      If you want include <meta> <style> <javascript> tags between <HEAD> </HEAD> edit 'metatag.inc.php' file

    • footer.inc
      This file will be placed after all content.

    More design customization
    If you really want a great customization you will need edit the templates used by vCard.

    Click here to see templates documentation.

    Translation to other languages

    - If you will translate the vCard to other language like:

    korean, chinese, japanese, cyrillic, turkish, greek etc

    - You'll need edit the important HTML code in language lib file:

    // Language ISO Char Set code (Western)
    $CharSet = "iso-8859-1";

    Tthese languages use different character set to be able see the greeting cards in browser.

    Ex.
    - Russian
    $CharSet = "windows-1251";
    - Japanese
    $CharSet = "Shift_JIS";
    - Chinese
    $CharSet = "gb2312";
    - Korean
    $CharSet = "EUC-KR";
    - Cyrillic
    $CharSet = "KOI8-R";
    - Greek
    $CharSet = "iso-8859-7";
    - Arabic
    $CharSet = "windows-1256";

    - And edit list of Font Faces in your Admin Control Painel

    Notes: - If you will insert pattern name, music names in your own tongue YOU MUST SET in Control Panel's options section:

    Special Language = Yes

    The reason is because the MySQL don't support some languages. I use in this script MySQL command to order pattern/music/background options by name. So if MySQL don't understand how order your alphabet it'll give an error.

    Example: Arabic
    Special Language = Yes

  • - The pattern and music list will be order by file name.
  • - If you want a special order of name in scroll list, rename the files to coincide the order of files with names!

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