After getting tired of searching through my email for my WTS Bookstore blogpartner id every time I link to a book on their site, I decided to make a bookmarklet to make the process a bit easier. (A bookmarklet is like a mini javascript application that can be built in to a web browser bookmark.) Then I thought some of you fine folks might like to have one too, so I made a little webapp that will create one for you (with your blogpartner id, of course, not mine).
Simply enter your blogpartner id, click the button, and the hyperlink below the button will automagically become your very own bookmarklet. Drag the link to your toolbar or somewhere else handy. Next time you want to link to a book, find it at WTS Books.com, then click the bookmarklet. Your blogpartner id will automatically be appended to the URL in your browser’s address bar. There’s a video how-to available too, which you can watch after you’ve made your bookmarklet. The tool is available here.
For those those a little more web-savvy, I’ve also created a small script that will automatically append your blogpartner id to every wtsbooks.com link on your site (without overwriting existing ones). You can either paste the code directly into your html header, or link to an external .js file. Either way, you’ll need to update your html <body> tag to call the changeAllLinks function on the onload event (<body onload="changeAllLinks()">). Note that you should replace my blogpartner id with your own…unless of course you don’t want to…which would be fine with me. I will assume you know what you’re doing, so please don’t expect a whole lot of “technical support” on this one. The script is available here.
Enjoy!
[Update: Greg just reminded me about this tool, which is way cooler than mine. But the script above might be helpful to some.]
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I’m not sure which I’m more impressed with – the bookmarklet app you created, or the video tutorial.
JING is very easy, and completely free. I believe videos are limited to about 5 minutes (since hosting is free), but it’s very handy. I used it a couple of weeks ago to make a Skype tutorial for my mom. Check it out!