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So what we want is rows of 4 horizontal affiliate products. Here’’s how we’ll begin.

First step, open your text editor. If you don’t have one, I suggest using Notepad++.

Next we’ll place the following code at the top of the page.

<table border="2" cellpadding="10" frame="box" rules="none" bordercolor="#69c1b5">
<tbody>
<tr>

Next, paste all your affiliate links.

Then, past the following code at the bottom after your affiliate links.

</tr>
</tbody></table>

Next, we need to arrange to have 4 affiliate products on each row. So well count down four affiliate links and paste the following code. Continue to place it after the 4th affiliate link. Do not place it after the last set of 4 affiliate links.

<tr></tr>

Next, we need to establish each products place in the table. To do this, we’ll insert the following code before each affiliate link:

<td align="center">

Next, you want to close this by adding the following code at the end of each affiliate code:

</td>

Now the table is laid out and if we want to add more affiliate links later, we can.

Next, we want to make sure the affiliate pictures all fit nicely on our page. To do this, we need to control the width of each affiliate picture. An affiliate link looks like this:

<a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=hZL6UR2PgQ4&amp;offerid=125531.2771&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0"><img src="http://www.cafebritt.com/images/Products/2771/oferta4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=hZL6UR2PgQ4&amp;bids=125531.2771&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />

Let’s break it up into pieces. Piece one is the link. It looks like this and there’s nothing that needs to be done with it:

<a href=”http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=hZL6UR2PgQ4&amp;offerid=125531.2771&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0″>

The next code looks like this:

<img src=”http://www.cafebritt.com/images/Products/2771/oferta4.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”" /></a>

Notice it begins with img src and closes with the /a. This makes the image (img) a link. So the first img code you see is where you want to make some insertions.

First, insert the width. For ease, let’s just insert it right after the img:

<img width=”216″ src="http://www.cafebritt.com/images/Products/2771/oferta4.jpg" border="0" alt="" />

Next, let’s fill in the alt tag and put in a title for the image. Note that we are using some code that will automatically take the title and create a caption from the title. In most cases the alt and title will be the same.

<img width=”216″ title=”The Plantation Tour” src=”http://www.cafebritt.com/images/Products/2771/oferta4.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”The Plantation Tour” width=”216″ />

Lastly, there’s this second image code. Nothign needs to be done with this code, just make sure not to mistake it for the first img code. This image code almost always has a designated height and width of 1, so it’s easy to recognize.

<img src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=hZL6UR2PgQ4&amp;bids=125531.2771&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" border="0" alt="" width=”1″ height=”1″ />

The first thing I did was edit my wp-config.php file and include the following code:

define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

This turns off the revisions in WordPress 2.6 and was based on a suggestion from My Digital Life. There’s also a WordPress plugin that will do this for you so you don’t have to edit the config file: WordPress No Revisions Plugin.

That fixed part of the problem.  Although my revisions were turned off, effectively preventing more revisions from being created, I still had a ton of revisions clogging up my database and breaking my permalinks.  To fix this, I installed the WordPress Revision Removal Plugin.  It’s a great little plugin that does exactly what it was intended to do.  It helped me remove the revisions from my WordPress database, and when I clicked on the WP-ecommerce plugin option to “Fix Product Group Permalinks,” it worked, and my pages no longer displayed a 404 error.

I hope that helps for anyone having a similar problem.  Peace!

Deliverability of your email is a huge issue these days.  With so many people sending spam email, many ISPs are cracking down on email (even legitimate email!), if it looks like spam.  How does this affect you?  Well, if you don’t take certain precautions, when you send an email to someone it may end up in the junk folder, or worse, it may not be delivered at all!

Implementing Sender Policy Framework is just one step in your fight against spam and against being unfairly blacklisted.  Learn more about sender policy framework. This website has a free tool to help you create an SPF record for your website. Then you just have to add the information to your Domain Name System (DNS). If you don’t know what that is, talk to your domain registry or website hosting company, or hire a professional to take care it for you. For someone that’s done it before, it’s a quick way to protect yourself and ensure better email delivery. Contact me and I’d be glad to answer your questions or help set up SPF for you.