Free Photoshop World Counter
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by Terry Reinert in Photoshop World
Are you attending Photoshop World 2009 in Las Vegas, own a website or blog, and want to display a count down timer to the keynote address of Photoshop World for both you and your readers to enjoy? Kinda like the count down timer you see below? Then look no further!
Ok, so my sales pitch isn’t all that great… but then I don’t really need a sales pitch because this counter is free to use. I am even going to host it on my site for you! Why is that a good thing? All future updates to the counter will automatically show up on your page without you having to do anything. Sweet, huh?
There has got to be a catch, right? Wrong. The flash file contains two links; one to the Photoshop World website and one to this post so they can get the counter for their website too. No cost to you at all. If you feel the need to contribute money for using the counter, please make a donation to the Springs of Hope Kenya Orphanage that Scott Kelby raises money for. Read posts about the orphanage on Scott’s blog HERE.
There are two main ways to embed the timer on your page if you’re using a WordPress blog…
1. If your blog theme is set up for widgets (any good theme is) then add a text widget wherever you want it to display and paste the code below into the text portion of the widget. Click save. All done!
2. You can put the code below directly into your theme PHP file where you want it to display.
Copy the PSW Counter code from this text file into your website: http://www.tkrphoto.com/apps/pswcounter_code.txt
Although the counter is working just fine on my blog and a few others… I still feel the need to state that I am not responsible for any issues you have using this counter. Just the usual disclaimer that my imaginary lawyer told me to post. 
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Jason
25. Jun, 2009
Very cool graphic – what would happen if we re-sized to 200×66 in the code? (sidebar isn’t wide enough for a 300px object)..
Terry
25. Jun, 2009
You can try to see if it will work. I didn’t try that myself. If it doesn’t work let me know and I will make a more slimline version of it for those that don’t have the width.
Imaging Insider
04. Aug, 2009
Tried this in WordPress 2.8. And, for whatever reason it prevented sidebars from loading until the counter code was removed. Any ideas?
Terry
04. Aug, 2009
Very strange… I’ve had it running on WordPress 2.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, and 2.8.3. It may be a theme issue but that doesn’t seem right either… Something should load whether the theme is configured for dynamic sidebars or not. Did you add the code to a text widget or put the code directly into the theme .php file?
I am not sure what would cause this but have a few ideas to try out. I’ll work on this and will hopefully have an answer for you soon.
Terry
04. Aug, 2009
Ok, it seems that the way I embedded the code into the blog post was somehow corrupting it so when you copy/paste it into the website code it wouldn’t display properly. As you can see above, I removed the code and put the proper code in a text file on the server that you can copy from. I tested the copy/paste from the text file and it is working correctly for me in both Firefox and Safari. Give it a shot and let me know if it is working now.
Sorry for the initial confusion. Got to love web technology.
Imaging Insider
04. Aug, 2009
Perfect! Thank You! And, very nice work!
Terry
04. Aug, 2009
I just looked at your site and I see it working! Excellent!! Thanks for the test to ensure it was working properly.