Sending your content to E-Goldens

When supplying content on disk or emailing it to the editor, please save each component (text, graphics, logos, etc.) as a separate file. The guidelines below will help you to get the best out of your advertisement.

Graphic Requirements:

In order to create the best looking graphics for your advertisement, it is critical that the graphic elements (pictures, images, logos, charts, etc.) that we receive be saved in a specific format. Every time a picture is saved in a different format than is listed below, image information is lost and the picture quality suffers. GIF and JPG files are particularly susceptible to this because they "compress" the graphic to save space. Most graphics programs will allow you to save your graphics as a Tiff, Photoshop, TARGA, PICT, or EPS files. These are the best types of graphics files for us to work with and will result in the best looking ads.

If you would like a special font in your ad, please remember to include it with your advertisement. While we have a large collection of fonts on hand, we may not have the exact one that you want. Also, please shorten the names of your graphics to 8 letters or less. This will help insure that we can open them when we receive them.

If you have an ad that you created with a program such as MS Publisher or something similar, it is most likely been saved as one giant graphic (picture). There are several problems with this type of advertisement:

• Because your advertisement is one large graphic, it has probably been saved as a JPG file and been greatly compressed. As stated above, when a file is compressed, it loses clarity and becomes less visually appealing.
• On a computer with a slower internet connection, that large graphic can take several minutes to download completely. If it takes too long, most people will simply leave the page instead of waiting for it to finish loading.

So if you submit this type of advertisement, we may ask that you also send in the graphics and font you used to create it. That way, we can rebuild it into a faster loading and better looking web page.

And for the text:

We prefer that you send all of your text either in an email or in a separate text document. If you would like to send in a paper copy of your text, type or write out all copy and clearly indicate special punctuation and capitalization. Please supply emailed text files in a .doc or .txt format.

Please contact the editor for more information on where to send web page content.

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