Nifty Zazzle Search Results Page AniGif Maker V3
FAQ
Will all the products from the search results page appear in the animation?
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No. Only those listed in the search results section will be used and then up to a
maximum of 20 will be used. If there are fewer than 20 available, then they'll all
get used.
Can I speed up or slow down the animation?
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No. An optimum delay is set of 2 seconds between product images. This is a balance
between it being slow enough to give a viewer the chance to see the design but not
so slow that they get bored and move on without clicking!
Can I choose the order in which the products appear in the animation?
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No.
Can I get different layouts for the animation?
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Yes
When you hit the bookmarklet, you get a dialog box showing the
different layout options.
There's three each for portrait and landscape orientation animations where you
have one large and four medium images. In each case the product image that changes
can be in the middle or the top/bottom/left/right
There's two each for portrait and landscape orientation animations where you
have one large and nine thumbnail images. In each case the product image that changes
can be on the top/bottom or left/right
Just choose the one you want and enter its number in the box provided.
Is my referral id used in the links?
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If you pay a Nifty subscription then yes, it's used in the links (applies both to normal and
promototer program subscriptions).
If you don't pay a subscription, then at the toss of a computer coin, either yours gets used
or mine does. On average, yours will be used in half the links.
This is known as a 50/50 referral split and helps to pay for the Nifty web server.
But whatever happens, you can easily edit the link generated as you see fit.
Can I get clean links suitable for the Zazzle Promoter Program?
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Yes, if you edit them.
But beware. The marketplace searches that this tool is designed for aren't appropriate for
clean links.
Instead the link you'll get will be an affiliate link that'll earn you 15% referral fee if
it's successful.
What happened to the Pansci bookmarklet?
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It's been withdrawn because the automatic way that Pinterest provides for making Pins
(and that this tool used) puts them in your Saved section. When you make
them by hand (recommended) they go in your Created section where Pinterest
gives them far, far more exposure. (see next question/answer)
Can I use this tool to pin manually on Pinterest?
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Yes, in a roundabout way. To pin manually, you need to save the animation to your
desktop and then drag that to the new pin you're creating. Unfortunately, when it's done that
way, it won't animate.
But there is a workaround. What you do is convert the animated gif file to an
mp4 video and that will animate on Pinterest. I use and recommend convertio (opens in a new tab)
So to do this, first, you need to get the animation and the text to go with it. So instead
of using the Pansci bookmarklet (now withdrawn), use the Fansci one. When you've set up any
options how you want:
- right-click and save the animation to your desktop
- start creating your new pin
- convert the animation to mp4 at the link above and download the resulting mp4 to your desktop
- drag that mp4 video to the pin
- edit the text you're given in the box on the animation creation page to how you want it
- change the word facebook in the tracking code (tc=) to pinterest
NB tracking codes can take only lowercase letters, digits and the underscore character
- add any hashtags you want - use no more than, say, five
- copy the text for the title and paste it into your pin
- copy the text for the description and paste it
- copy and paste the link text
- hit publish
- choose your board
You're done! You'll find your pin in the Created section and you should expect
lots of impressions and engagements
Can I use this tool to share on X (formerly Twitter)?
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Yes. Use the Fansci bookmarklet and follow the same manual process as for Facebook.
Just make sure that you change the tracking code to show it's from X and not Facebook!
Is there a tutorial?
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Yes, it's here: tutorial
(opens in a new tab)
Note that it hasn't been updated to show the new templates introduced in V3
What changed in V2.1?
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For completeness, in V2.1 the ability to create animations when on store pages (front end)
was added. It won't work in store management (the store backend).
You'll need to delete your old bookmarklets and get the new ones to use the new feature. If
they're not on display below, click this link
to reopen this page in the right mode. If you're in the middle of doing something, finish off
first so you don't lose it.
Note: The page title and description that Zazzle has written is the same for all
storefront search result pages. It's not so bad with Facebook / X(Twitter) because you can
change that text to whatever you want.
The problem comes with Pinterest pins because Pinterest uses whatever Zazzle has written,
without you getting any chance to change it.
The text Zazzle has written for stores always follows the same pattern - and it's what
Pinterest will use:-
Title: Highton Ridley: Designs & Collections on Zazzle
Description: Check out all of the amazing designs that Highton Ridley has created for your
Zazzle products. Make one-of-a-kind gifts with these designs!
So for Pinterest pinning, it might be better to try Zazzle's marketplace search and use
the store name as the search term. To further refine things, use the Category dropdown to get what
you want to promote. That way you'll get something fairly acceptable as the text in your pin.
For example, using my store name as the search term and then choosing Business Cards
from the drop down results in this text:-
Title: Hightonridley Business Cards | Zazzle
Description: Get Hightonridley personalized business cards or make your own from scratch!
Premium cards printed on a variety of high quality paper types. Hand out yours today!
Not brilliant but ok.
What changed in V2.2?
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This version is the first that lets you set options to enhance your animation.
- You can have up to two lines of text and they can either be animated or static
- The position of the text varies depending on the template you've chosen
- You can choose the size of text that's used: small, medium, large or auto
- You can use emojis in the text as well
- There are a variety of fonts for you to chose from
The text animation is always a scrolling effect except in the case of the horizontal template
with the animating image in the center. For that template, the text is static but fades in and
out. That effect was chosen because there was no position where scrolling would work effectively.
How do I use the options panel?
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Click the button labelled stop and set options. The options panel will open and
generation of the current animation will stop.
When you've set things the way you want, click the generate button to
start over, generating the animation with your chosen options.
Note that once you've clicked the stop and set options button there's no way to
continue. The only choice you have at this point is to hit the generate button
or to close the tab.
What happens if I don't set any options?
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If you don't set any options then no text will be used.
What changed in V2.3?
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V2.3 brings you 250 different calls to action that you can randomly choose to use for your
animated or static text. You don't have to use them, you can still write your own if you want.
There's a new button that selects one at random and adds it to the Text Lines 1 and 2 boxes for
you.
Almost all of the include XYZ as stand-in text for the product / theme you're using in your
animation, so you'll need to change that to suit.
The length of the calls to action have been kept down so that when you use the auto font size
option, they'll still be big enough to be readable for most of the available fonts.
What changed in V2.4?
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1) The Pansci bookmarklet has been withdrawn (see the detailed FAQ above for why)
2) Due to some changes on Pinterest, the mechanism for making the animation needed to be
updated. The changes made were "under the hood" so you shouldn't notice any difference.
What has changed in V3?
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1) Four New animation templates have been added. They each have one large image and nine
thumbnail-sized images. There are twpo vertical layouts, with the animation at the top or
bottom and two horizontal layouts, with the animation on the left or right.
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