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Advanced voting options

More advanced options when using voting collections allow users to vote more than one link (up to 10), display only some of the top entries (so as not to discourage people with entries that got few or no votes) and even control the visibility of the votes each entry has during the voting process so as not to bias choice.

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Click on "Voting parameters" (this is available only on voting collections apparently)

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1: How many votes an IP (which corresponds to a user) can cast. These votes must go to different entries (no voting the same link twice!!!)
2: Uncheck this if you don’t want the vote count displayed under each link while voting
3: You can display all entries and the votes each entry got or just some of the top entries. The entries are sorted by the number of votes so the winner is always first. By hiding the voting count from the less-popular entries, there is actually no looser, just winners.

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Click submit and you’re set!

These changes can take place even while in the voting phase. Do not hesitate to try it.

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Better statistics, participants’ email, more info on dashboard

Three small additions for data handling.

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The total clicks of all the collection links have been added to the dashboard

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Clicking "Export participant emails" you get a csv file with the emails, links, texts of all the links of the current collection

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Clicking here you get a csv file that contains emails, links, texts, clicks, votes and creation dates of each link in the collection for further processing

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Adding images from your own computer

New feature: Users can upload their images from their computers!!!

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As usual, click “Add your link” and proceed filling your info.

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You will notice that the image selection screen has somewhat changed!

in 1. you can select your picture from the ones found at the URL you entered.
in 2. you can enter a URL to an image directly (eg. http://my.pictures.com/pic1.jpg)
in 3. you will be presented with a file dialog to choose a picture from your own computer.

You will also notice (4) that the size of each picture is written underneath it so you can have a clearer picture of which pic you are selecting.

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Clicking on “Choose” (it may have a different name depending on your browser), you will get a dialog to select your image from your PC

When finished, select “Upload” and you are done!

As usual, you can try it here

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Congratulations to the winners!!!!

The three prize winners, Monika Reeck, Rony and RubyM, can contact us at info[at]inlinkz.com with subject “Winner” and please state in your mail whether your gift card should be from amazon or twopeasinabucket :)

I will post later with top 10 winners’ post..

Cheers!

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InLinkz challenge #1 voting opens!

Hi all!

Submissions closed on the challenge! Now it is time to let your readers know they can vote on their favorite.

Good luck to all!

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InLinkz Challenge #1 – Boy birthday card

Welcome to InLinkz first cardmaking challenge!

This challenge has a “boy birthday” theme based on the palette below.

To enter the contest you either have to follow @inlinkz on twitter or put the challenge on your blog, using the following code:

<script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=5181"></script>

Using the above code, the contest entries (along with this text) will appear on your blog.

The contestants must enter their creation until Monday, June 7. After that, readers will vote on cards until Friday, June 11 and the winners will be drawn, based on voting. So, placing the contest on your blog actually increases your change to get your readers to vote for you!

The prizes are gift cards (2peas calls them gift certificates) of $50, $25 and $10 for the top 3 winners. In case of a tie, the gift cards will be split accordingly (eg 2nd and 3rd place tie get $18 each)

The top ten cards will be featured on the InLinkz challenge page.

Submissions that did not follow @inlinkz or did not put the blog hop on their blogs will be removed before voting starts.

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Enabling voting on photographs

InLinkz features a voting system for thumbnails. Users submit their images and then the readers are able to vote on their favorite

For now, to make this option available you must send an email to info[at]inlinkz.com just to tell us you want it so we can enable it for you!!!! (It is FREE ofcourse!)

You create a collection as usual

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In order to enable voting, check the appropriate selection.

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The voting will start as soon as the submissions stop. Now, submissions stop when voting starts (1) and the voting finishes at (2)
Everything else remains the same as in a non-voting collection

Notifying the submitters

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When the vote starts, you can even grab a file with all the submitters emails in it so you can let them know the contest has begun. (So they can inform in turn their relatives and family to vote for them :)

From the users’ side

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Before voting starts, nothing tells the readers (except yourself) that the collection is going to be one with voting (1). Readers add links as usual

When the time comes, submitting more links is not possible and a star appears under each link (2) (except the ones that the users have entered! No one should vote for his own submissions). If the user clicks it, then it automatically reloads and displays the number of votes each link has received. The number of votes is not visible prior to casting the vote so as not to bias the selection.

At (3), the voting has ended and the links are now sorted by number of votes they received (The winner is first).

Now you can even go and announce the winner by choosing "draw winner" frim your dashboard.

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New feature! Voting on thumbnails!

The voting capability on thumbnails has been released. For now, Vicky is doing a test run in her blog clips-n-cuts and after that test finishes, voting will be generally available to all.

If you want to test it for yourself, drop me an email, PM, tweet or whatever so you can play too before the official launch!

More info and a walkthrough, on the release date (in a week that is.)

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Two new features. Better layouts and optional image cropping for thumblinks

  • A rework in the thumblink layout part of the code shaped things up a bit. Now there is no need for “Layout savers”. The text your readers enter is constrained so no more looooonnnng names and descriptions will push your thumblinks out of your blog.
  • Another minor feature is that when the user chooses the image for his thumblink, he can also crop it too!! There are two buttons now under each image in the selection list. One says “Select” and just selects the image and the other one says “Crop” and takes you to a cropping page. He can drag the cropping handles around his desired area and press a button. And tadaaaa.. the thumblink contains the desired detail. There are two buttons (one for select and another for crop) because we want to minimize the clicks in case the user does not want any cropping on this thumblink.

Try it for yourself here!

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NeatFit. Another, better layout saver!

New feature: auto layout (NeatFit)

This is the typical 5-column thumbnail list.

Due to some big names/descriptions, some space has been allocated between the columns.

There is now another option in the column number field

This is available in creation AND editing time and for your existing collections too. The option is non-destructive as always. If you don’t like it, change it again to whatever you wish

Choose NeatFit (automatic) from the Number of colums combo list box

Well, that’s it!!! Save and you are ready.
What this mode does is that it tries to fit as many thumbnails in your available space. The size of the letters gets smaller to fit more in less space. Moreover, if the descriptions get way long, it truncates them the hard way. So your layout remains intact and neatly packed!

So this is what you get!!

Tightly packed collections filling all available space!!

So simple!

Check it out here: http://inlinkz.com/testBed.php

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