March 18, 1999 Making and Saving Money: Adding Affiliate Programs to Your Tripod Web Site

Building homepages is fun. There's no doubt about it. We've all put an embarrassing amount of time into our beloved cyber-outposts: Late nights spent before the glow of the monitor, playing around with fonts, colors, and graphics to make it all just right. Once you have your site right where you want it, what's the next challenge?

Gif Girl challenges you to enter the next dimension of homepage building: E-commerce.

You may be thinking to yourself, "E-Commerce? That's for Fortune 500 companies! Not for little old me and my nice little homepage!" But Gif Girl is here to say that everyone can share in the e-commerce bonanza - thanks to the many programs being created by bigwig commerce companies like CDNOW and Barnesandnoble.com. They are called affiliate programs and they can mean cash, merchandise credit, and savings to you!

1. setting up shop
2. getting people to buy
3. getting paid

When Gif Girl isn't out saving the world from dithered graphics and illegible Web pages, she helps keep Tripod's pages running fast and furious.

Send Gif Girl your comments, ideas, suggestions, and — of course — your solutions for saving the world from bad Web page design. She'd love to hear from you.