There are two main steps to ordering your wijard: order the cards; order the widget. It makes things easier if you do them in that order.
There’s a preliminary step: prepare the image you want to use. There is a crop tool at the MOO site, but I’d recommend using a richer image-editing tool. That doesn’t mean you need to have a black belt in Photoshop. (I certainly don’t. I use Picnik, the web-based image editing tool built into Flickr. It’s more than capable of doing the following.)
Crop your photo so that it has the same proportions as a MOO minicard. Since the minicard is 70×28mm, that’s a 5:2 ratio. So you might crop to, say, 2100×840 pixels. Add any text you want. Too little text is better than too much when it comes to the image on the front of the card.
You’ll be able to specify up to six lines of text for the back of the card. You might want to think about this text and type it somewhere for later copy and paste. It would be great if the last line was something like: “Wijard.com generated a widget using the image on this card.”
Then you’re ready to order your MOO MiniCards. (Please use the link I just provided, since the commission I earn from MOO cards is what funds Wijard.)
Next, order your widget. You do this with an email to sales at wijard dot com, specifiying:
- The image, as you provided it to MOO (i.e., not the original, uncropped image). If the image is at an online photo-sharing service (e.g., Flickr), provide the address of the image’s web page. If you uploaded the image to MOO, attach the same image to your email.
- The text bullets you want to appear in your widget under the image. These will probably be very similar to the lines of text you provided to MOO, but they don’t have to be. No more than six bullets, please.
- Your order number. No-one, not even Wijard, could generate cooler order numbers than MOO, and it makes everyone’s life simpler if there’s just one number associated with the order. So we’ll make the order number for your widget the same as the order number for your card.
There is another step, and you may well find it the hardest: wait for the two parts of your wijard. When your widget is ready, probably within a couple of days of your order, you’ll get email telling you where you can find your widget. MOO will send your cards directly to you.
If you want help with any aspect of this, please contact Andrew (@wijard.com, or using the phone number on his wijard).
This is V0.1 of Wijard and of its order process. V1.0 will automate the process (by means of an application using the Clearspring, MOO, and WordPress APIs), but that won’t be out this year.