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Unconventional use of MTAmazon

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2 Aug 2002

Brad Choate is using the MTAmazon plugin on his video games pages, not to link to products for purchase, but mainly to display pictures of the games and the ESRB rating. Read about how he creates the pages in Way Too Many Games.

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Brad Choate
August 2, 2002 11:28 PM

Oh, I have buy links there too! :) It was fun to put together and MTAmazon saved me a bunch of time. I didn't want to have to download and place all those images manually... Thanks for the plugin, Adam!

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