Ubuntu Countdown to Intrepid modified for WordPress users

[Updated 6 Oct 7:20 am to fix the "smart quote" issue. - Peng]

When Thorsten Wilms, a German graphic designer and Ubuntu dev, created the Ubuntu 8.10 Countdown to the release of Intrepid Ibex it was created to use a JavaScript to show a new image for each new day. Unfortunately, many users like myself have their blogs hosted on WordPress.com or another company that blocks JavaScripts. Luckily for us he created some generic images that you can use to promote the upcoming release.

Since he didn’t provide us with the code to use I’ll go ahead and provide it here for you to use. Please do not link to these images, either mine or Thorton’s. Save them to your hard drive and update them to your host, and modify the code to point to the image on your own server.

Option 1 – dark banner

<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/"><img title="Ubuntu 8.10 - Coming October 30!" src="http://nancib.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/countdown_8_10_c_date.png" alt="Ubuntu 8.10 - Coming October 30!" width="180" height="150" /></a>

That will give you:

Option 2 – light banner

<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/"><img title="Ubuntu 8.10 - Coming October 30!" src="http://nancib.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/countdown_8_10_a_date.png" alt="Ubuntu 8.10 - Coming October 30!" width="180" height="150" /></a>

That will give you:

Huge thanks to Thorsten for making not only the original banners but for putting in the extra effort to make these static banners as well. We all owe you a beer.