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Hi, i use iTunes link maker alot on my site, but the button never lines up with the text right -anything i can do? Thanks!

heres an example on my site: http://www.cableriot.com/2009/02/16/crecommends-4/

I see your problem.

First off, if you use Google Chrome there’s a great feature called “Inspect Element”. Very similiar to the firebug functionality in Firefox.

It will let you see what styles are applied to your element, then find out where it is being inherited from.

All images on your pages are being given margins of 1.8em. That is translating into an 18px margin on the top and bottom of any image in a post.

While this normally looks nice, inline images like the itunes link don’t quite look right.

You can do 2 things:

1. Get rid of the image and just use a link
2. Create a new class to apply to the IMG tag that eliminates margins entirely (margin: 0px;).. this will give you the look you want.

Let me know how it goes.

Hi there how would i go about putting this into a flash cs4 movie? thanks

Not much of a need to do any of this anymore, as iTunes itself has an easy way to copy links to iTunes content. Click the down arrow next to the price, and select “Copy Link”.

To put it in Flash, you just need to create the asset to link, make it a button or movie. Then call:
getURL(‘[link provided by iTunes or the link maker]‘, ‘_blank’);

yeah, but if you use the “Copy Link” feature from within the iTMS, you can get a referral money like you do with Link Synergy, right?

I’m not sure, would love to know if you could get referral money. I know the iTMS linking has been updated since the writing of this article and rules may have changed.

Has anybody here been trying to use the iTunes Affiliate Link Maker Plugin for Wordpress?

I think the code might’ve changed a bit since the plugin was released and I’m just wondering what specific code one needs to add (in terms of linking through ones own linkshare account) in order to get the plugin to work properly. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I am just now looking into it. I will let you know what I find. I’ve always wanted to know who listened to my music suggestions.

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