I found a company that will print art onto metal, BooksmartStudio According to their site they will print sizes from 8.5″ x 11″ up to 20″ x 84″. That’s big.
I’m sure there are a number of artists that would like to have their art on metal like the old time advertising signs or tintype photos. This could be an option for them.
Daniel of Artistic Opinions has written a little script for putting the current IK promotion on your website automatically. You can see it in action on his site.
This is a great little script for keeping a coupon on your site.
He says ‘Everyone is welcome to use it, no charge 
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Here are his instructions on how to use it:
To use it, there’s a two-step process. First, you’ll insert the following code where you want the promotion box to appear:
<script src=”http://www.artopinions.com/script/ik-promo-rotation.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<noscript>
<div style=”text-align: center;”><strong>20% off</strong> museum and framed art!<br />Use Imagekind coupon code: <strong>museum20</strong> when checking out.<br />Expires 12/31/07</div>
</noscript>
Then, set your style. You can make the box look however you want by using the built-in CSS class “promospace”. If you’re unsure how to style using CSS, post here and I’ll give a brief rundown
It works like this – during the times that IK runs a special promotion (like now), I will be updating the script with the details of the deal. The script is controlled by a date function, so the special promotion will only ever show during the proper dates. When there is no special promotion going on, a default coupon code will display (the museum20 code).
He also adds:
Regarding the CSS, I should have explained it up front, but it was getting late and I took a shortcut 
I’ll lay out three basic options, and folks can research CSS a bit for more ideas. Let’s center the text of the promo, make the background of the box black, and the text white. In your <head> section of your HTML page, you can add the following code:
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
.promospace {
background: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
}
//–>
</style>
If you have your own CSS stylesheet, you can just add the lines from .promospace { down to } in that file.
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You can see the script at work on my Nifty Piks blog .
Jen uses the word (hopefully) in the header on her list of Cafepress tools. I think most people that have tried them would say they are completely useful and maybe even essential.
I hadn’t looked at her list of tools in a while and see she has added some information on working with cpshop. (a script for having your shop on your own website) I’ll have to read through them since she covers some things I haven’t used cpshop for yet.
Next she lists a couple of tools for affiliates and shopkeepers that are pretty much the same except for the affiliate thing. The html page builder is great for making pages to include on your website or blog. Just enter keywords to use and it will make a table of products or designs for you.
The link builder makes links to a product, section, or shop for you. There are options for text links and image links with small or large images. Very useful when writing a blog and including a cp product or section in the post.
Plus there is the cp product finder, it’ll find a cp product from the product number. And… the CP Affiliate view test, which shows a plain view of a shop without the custom features most shopkeepers use.
Many thanks to Jen for her great tools!
Jean of Rotem Gear has taught a course on Setting up Shop with Cafepress, she’s developed a great list of resources for her course and has it on her site. You can find it at: http://www.rotemgear.com/CPCourseCD.html
The list has lots of great links for much more than Cafepress.
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