Entrecard Tricks and Tips 1: Card design

Ok, this may or may not be a regular series but hey, we can hope right?

Good design itself isn't my province, I can't help you there, I'm a coder :) however I can give a few Entrecard-specific suggestions:

• Definitely go for the 125x125 pixel image based card. The text stuff is ok, but it doesn't stand out since we only have 5 designs, so in a big card listing you get lost with all the other black + silver cards.


• Upload your image in PNG format. For security reasons we have to re-encode all the images uploaded, and JPEG doesn't re-encode very well so you end up with some compression artifacts. PNG on the other hand should work perfectly.


• When on display in a widget, your card will always be surrounded by a border of #444444 (dark gray), in other spaces the border can be black or white. Make sure you test against these to be sure it doesn't look weird.


• It is possible, with a bit of work, to design a card specifically for a given advert spot. To do so, do your design (say, in pink and white for display on galadarling.com), upload it (Edit on your dashboard), and then apply to the advertiser. The design then "sticks" with them, and you can upload a new image to use as your regular card or apply at a new site without changing what will end up displaying on the first spot.