Move the needle! How you can help NetBeans and help yourself
You can help NetBeans be successful - which means more people will
contribute more ideas, more modules, more bug reports and fixes...which
means you get a better IDE and a better platform! NetBeans is an open
source project - if you don't promote it, who will? And it's quick
and easy to do.
You can move the needle. Below are graphics you can use to link
to NetBeans from your web site. But there's more - you can actually see
what effect you're having. That's why we call this project Move the
Needle. Sign up below and fill in the URLs that you will add links
to, and your name (or a nickname if you want).
Each week, the results will be tallied up - we'll process the web
logs for the entire site and list your name (or nickname) and how many
times the referring page was yours, so you can see exactly how much
effect you had! There will also be a tally of how many referring pages
came from community sites, as a whole. Making this number bigger is
what we call moving the needle
How to do it
Download the NetBeans graphic you like from the table below (right
click and choose "Save Image ..." in most browsers).
Image
Use on your website if ...
HTML to use
You use and like NetBeans, you develop software with NetBeans
Copy and edit the following :
You write or use an application built on NetBeans
Copy and edit the following :
Add it to wherever you keep images on your web site.
Click in the corresponding textarea in the right column, and select
all the html code there (CTRL-A should work). Copy-paste that html into
your web pages. For more images, please visit our buttons and banners page
Save your work, and you're done! The icon and link to netbeans.org
will now appear on your site.
Sign up! That way your contribution can be acknowledged on the
NetBeans web site, and you can see how many web hits you generated for
NetBeans! To sign up, send an email to the
with your name or company name (or whatever you want used on the page -
nothing inappropriate please) and the exact URLs of any pages we should
add up links from for you.
Come back each week and visit the results page
to see how you're doing. Can you move the needle?
Other graphics
If you want high resolution source (.ai, .psd
or .eps) files for the Built on NetBeans graphic or the
NetBeans logo, see the NetBeans collateral page.
