Welcome Center: Featured merchants

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In Kitely's blogpost dated 11 August 2013, Kitely Market Featured Merchants, are the following paragraphs:

With the launch of the Kitely Market so close, we wanted to remind content creators about our Featured Merchants program. If you earn Featured Merchant status then your store’s logo will be prominently displayed in the Kitely Market home page for a full year.

In addition, the Kitely Welcome Center world (which is currently under construction) will include a billboard ad for your store, and a gateway to your Kitely-based in-world shop (if you set one up).

To enable the feature mentioned in the second paragraph, the KWC Stage 1 builders will need to set up placeholders in the rectangular building set aside for this purpose.

The questions are:

1. How many featured merchants are there?
2. What proportions should the ad billboard have?
3. What resolution will the ads be?
4. How should the gateway be implemented?

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I've just had a chat with Ilan inworld, and will be working on this over the next few days, with input from others.

My apologies if some of this seems opaque. It's a matter of trying to fit everything in before the fast approaching deadline of early September. "Good enough" is the criterion given the deadline.

Don't forget that this is Stage 1 only. There will be the opportunity to do everything "properly" in Stage 2, which has a more comfortable deadline.