Please read all the rules befor posting your ads.  We may add some later but for now there are only a few rules.

Our editor will deactivate ads every morning that violate our terms of use rules listed below.  The vast majority of times a person's ad is deleted the problem is due to rule #1 or rule #8 infractions.

I'm not a big fan of "rules" in general but these are all here in order to fulfill legal or technical requirements, or to meet needs that our readers have expressed. In the case of rule #8 (put your business name in the ad title) it's a repeated request from our customers who want to be able to quickly find ads placed by their favorite vendors, or to be able to quickly ignore ads placed by vendors they have had bad experiences with in the past.

Here are the rules for posting ads...

1) Maximum 3 ads per day.

2) No copyrighted artwork.  Kind of a "duh" for most of us but needs to be said.  Disney, Sponge-Bob, Harley-Davidson, etc are all off-limits.

3) Maximum font sizes = 14. 

4) Don't write your ads in "Microsoft Word" then copy/paste them into our text box.  Word adds hidden characters that skew the font sizes and throws off the gallery image formating as well as our editors view of the ads.

5) No "HTTP://"   (web addresses) can be placed in the TEXT area of your ads.  When you upload an ad, you'll see the "Link To URL" field. Place the page you want your customers to land on into the "Link To URL" field.  Do not add additional website addresses in the text area of your ads.

6) If you don't have a website of your own but want to place an ad in the Daily News, go to the following page for more info on placing an ad as a "private party" and more options for what you can put in the URL field...   http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/public/2287.cfm

7) Be SURE you include the  "HTTP://"  in the URL in front of your websitename.com  If you leave this out then people clicking your ad will land on the ATW home page instead of on your web site.   

8) Your business name MUST show in your ad title line.  If you are an individual placing an ad then include your ATW USERNAME or your real name in the title line.  If your business name is too long to include in the title line and still have room for your message, then you may abbreviate your business name.  Once you abbreviate your business name, please continue using the same abbreviation in future ads so as to not confuse our readers.  As an example, our company name "Artistic ThreadWorks" takes up a LOT of space so we have abbreviated it down to "ATW".  You may also abbreviate your company name if you'd like to.

9) Do NOT put the same ad in twice in one day.   Changing the color of the graphic from blue to purple does not make a new ad.

10)  We reserve the right to remove any ads we feel are not appropriate at our sole discretion.   ArtisticThreadWorks is a family-oriented, non-confrontational, non-political, non-judgemental (as much as possible), website.  If an ad is placed that would make our readers feel uncomfortable or worse, we will remove it.

11) Ads must be uploaded BEFORE the day the ad runs.   The "day" ends at midnight Chicago time of the day before the ads are to appear.  If your ad is uploaded after midnight it will be posted with the next day's date.  And it will be de-activated by our editor as soon as it is seen.