Credit Card Widget Guide Part 2

In my first post, I explained the steps to customize your credit card widget by choosing your categories by card type, issuer or even selecting your own individual cards. For part two, we’re going to take a look at customizing the look and feel of your widget.

Most of step 2 is pretty straight forward, however there are some features I want to point out and demonstrate here in this post.  In order to begin with step 2 you must first click on the left side ‘Show/Hide’ link to expand the box.

 

Another item to note is that in order to display any changes you make to the customization you MUST click on the Update button.  The reset button will clear your changes and bring you back to default. It will not save any of your changes so only use it if you want to reset and start over.

Step 2. Customize Look and Feel

Widget Type.  The wide and narrow radio button option is one of the coolest features about this widget.  While the wide version of the widget allows you to easily create a comparison site chart, the narrow version gives bloggers the flexibility to incorporate credit card advertisements in their blogs sidebars or within the posts themselves.  The sizing of the narrow widget is standard for all blogs, namely type pad, blogger, and word press.

Agent-ID.  You can even apply your agent or sub ID to the widget to allow you to track sales on your end.

So what is "Agent Tracking?" What is an "Agent ID?"

Agent tracking is an additional feature incorporated to our existing HTML codes located at the end of each affiliate link. We strongly encourage all of our affiliates to utilize this feature as a way to track sales and performance when marketing several of our offers at one time. This allows you to evaluate if an offer is working in keeping with the needs of your business.

When you download creatives through the Credit.com affiliate site, you'll be offered a chance to add a custom agent ID.

Is there a minimum requirement on the length of an agent ID?  

Yes, an agent ID must be at least two or more characters in numeric or letter value.

Width – Button Color.  These functions are pretty self explanatory.  They allow you to match the color elements of the widget with the color scheme of your site or blog.

Button Hover Color.  I really like this function.  It shows the visitor that the button is an active link and clickable.

That wraps up part two of the Credit Card Widget series and should give you a better idea of the different options available for customizing the look and feel of your widget. Stay tuned for my next post where we’ll discuss the credit card finder widget and the rate table widget.