Friday, July 10, 2009
Web-based project management tool to help web designers, writers, bloggers manage projects http://ping.fm/owis1
4 Project Mgt Tips to Boost Your Project’s Bottom Line http://ping.fm/ULdX0
Use digg.com site to digg your stories (posts), use an attractive description to describe your post. This will increase your site visitors.
The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog http://ping.fm/c1LbV
Flickr DNA http://ping.fm/xB7P3
Thursday, July 09, 2009
5 E-Commerce Tips To Maximize Online Sales For SMBs http://ping.fm/A2qR8
a lack of enterprise-class controls makes management of users akin to herding cats http://ping.fm/8FIxO
Gmail Should be the Hub of Your Company's Social Media Strategy http://ping.fm/w7GmC
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Gartner. Mobile Payment Users Worldwide to Increase 70% in 2009, up 70.4% from 2008 (43.1 m) http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=96074
Why the Music industry begs Federal Court To Reject "Double-Dip" Royalties http://ping.fm/4XWba
UK e-tailers losing business due to limited payment options http://ping.fm/osldP
Sony select payment service provider & pay musicians http://ping.fm/DiiHt
WIRED - Virtual Cash Breeds Real Greed http://ping.fm/E6lH3
How to Earn Linden Dollars in Second Life http://ping.fm/dtGK3
Value of Linden Dollar rises against the Euro. Virtual life currency takes over real
http://ping.fm/6ZZ8F
http://ping.fm/6ZZ8F
Try the new Google News timeline app http://ping.fm/JryRP
Employee Handbook, how to write policies and procedures http://ping.fm/sEpll
How to feed your blog into Twitter automatically
http://twitterfeed.com/
http://twitterfeed.com/
PayPal Report – Download free Podcast on What Gives Online Shoppers Cold Feet? http://ping.fm/1caSo
Paypal Launches Developer Programme in Australia http://ping.fm/G8fYQ
Why Create Standard Operating Procedures? http://ping.fm/xqI6a
Why Is Google Turning Chrome Into An Operating System? http://ping.fm/iB0EB
Software Development Template Pack includes 14 templates to assist your developers, test team and technical writers http://ping.fm/LUF0E
Agile Software Development Process Templates http://ping.fm/6h8tk
iPhone and Android users can try Mobile Image Recognition (MIR) from kooaba http://ping.fm/jdLc9
Five Tips to Ensure Your Ecommerce Business’ Sales Tax Compliance http://ping.fm/Ko2Bx
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
PayPal alternative - Fees that AlertPay charges you for processing money transfers http://ping.fm/JnQQR
Google to Challenge Microsoft With Chrome Operating System. Bloomberg http://ping.fm/M39fE
A Japanese train company is scanning its employees to make sure they smile properly. http://ping.fm/yPcZQ
14 Software Development Template Pack. Save time when developing, testing and tech writing http://ping.fm/tYkJJ
Project Management kit includes a suite of templates used to assure and control the quality of deliverables within an IT project http://bit.ly/TjEwV
Marketing ROI Calculator. Check the Return On Investment of your marketing and advertising ampaigns http://bit.ly/19uPdy
Amazon WebPay - send money to any US mobile number using text messaging or e-mail address. http://ping.fm/ZKarO
Amazon Payments webinar - Checkout by Amazon: Inviting Amazon customers to shop on your site http://ping.fm/BJ5gj
WSJ - EBay's Auction Business Stabilizing, Analysts Say http://ping.fm/8MOub
PayPal Report – Download free Podcast on What Gives Online Shoppers Cold Feet? http://ping.fm/nVyMC
Alipay Records 200m Users. Overtakes PayPal as leading payment http://ping.fm/gNWB3
Monday, July 06, 2009
Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS). Payments service designed from the ground up for developers. http://ping.fm/aKOCr
PayPal Automated Customer Service Doesn't Serve. ConsumerAffairs.com http://bit.ly/GjGC7
J.P. Morgan report - PayPal could be worth around $9 billion by 2011http://ping.fm/XQXiB
J.P. Morgan’s In-Depth Look at PayPal’s Business http://ping.fm/6rvM8
What is Payflow Link? payment gateway solution that can be used with Internet Merchant Account to process credit cards http://ping.fm/IUzID
How to get rid of Crop Marks in Microsoft Word 2002/2003/2007 http://ping.fm/W8pm3
Open, edit, and save documents in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 http://ping.fm/zmOc1
Free Requirements Traceability Matrix. Excel template http://ping.fm/7YI9f
How to fix Google Chrome Aw Snap error message http://ping.fm/38ySv
RFPs. Monitor the schedule of all RFPs that your company plans to bid for. http://ping.fm/fBYHl
Guardian UK. Nokia turns to Android in smartphone wars http://ping.fm/fDMsT
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Microsoft Small Basic. Teach your kids to program http://ping.fm/5JqLq
CHART - Amazon Runs Away With Retailing http://ping.fm/Li0Cl
UnitedHealth: E-payments could save billions, help pay for health reform http://ping.fm/8MfqG
Oracle plans to cut at least 850 European jobs http://ping.fm/0786g
Posterous Tip #2 - Add tags simply in the subject of your email using the syntax ((tag: apple, gadgets)).
Instant podcast. Your RSS feed at http://ping.fm/GZI0L doubles as an iTunes-ready podcast. Attach an mp3 to an email and it works.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Asia Pacific leads the world in terms of using mobile phones for m-payments, accounting for around 85% of customers worldwide.
PayPal/Japan's NTT DoCoMo - Mobile money exchange through phone numbers http://ping.fm/Wt7YK
Digital River introduce mobile commerce (mcommerce) products, includes PayPal Mobile http://ping.fm/lTWlO
Amazon Wants To Put Ads Into Kindle Books? http://ping.fm/PWfzZ
How does Facebook make money? http://ping.fm/oXlBh
Any social networking system will eventually fail because people are always looking for the next big thing. True?
3 websites to store your digital goods http://ping.fm/nBf7q
Wharton Uni - A Mechanism for Providing Innovation Incentives for Digital Goods PDF opim.wharton.upenn.edu/wise2004/sat511.pdf
Google Code Tips - how to optimize web graphics http://ping.fm/OASZs
YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. Yahoo http://ping.fm/J10kD
Labels: Yahoo
IBM Page Detailer - graphical tool enables Web content providers to measure client side performance of Web pages http://ping.fm/CZ1kU
Google Hammerhead - Firebug Add-on for measuring the load time of web pages http://ping.fm/BZ1Of
Fiddler - Web debugging proxy. Inspect HTTP/S traffic, set breakpoints, "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. http://ping.fm/S21Aq
Open source Firefox/Firebug Add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement http://ping.fm/Dm2pB
Google Code - Discover best practices that can make your apps faster http://ping.fm/MeR6L
Google Code - Opinion (o2) is a Ruby on Rails forum application http://ping.fm/YSYi8
Friday, July 03, 2009
NTT DoCoMo to launch PayPal-like service on July 21st http://ping.fm/AcSKs
PayPal and eBay telephone support numbers http://ping.fm/D8YxM
Change Management Kit helps control changes to the scope, deliverables and resources within the project http://bit.ly/TjEwV
Get your 30 Day free trial with 1ShoppingCart.com, includes eBook delivery and autoresponders. No strings attached. http://bit.ly/4u1yIC
What is a Digital Fingerprint? Glossary of Terms for Ecommerce: http://ping.fm/sq96D
Authorize.Net Tutorial - Why do I Need a Payment Gateway? http://ping.fm/qhjOX
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Free - Chris Anderson. Author of the Long Tail
Free - Chris Anderson. Author of the Long Tail
In his bestseller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before.
Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.
Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival.
Read more at Amazon bit.ly/LSiIl
In his bestseller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before.
Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.
Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival.
Read more at Amazon bit.ly/LSiIl
Free Project Management Guidebook http://ping.fm/nAqyz
Why Your White Papers Don't Work? http://ping.fm/018Im
How to be in included in Google News. To be included in Google News, your articles should meet these guidelines http://ping.fm/MM6pX
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Chris Anderson (The Long Tail, Blink) new book. Free: The Future of a Radical Price http://bit.ly/LSiIl
How to turn FAQs into Marketing Opportunities http://ping.fm/XHIUg
Google CEO says consumers searching more for bargains http://ping.fm/I9hQ6
Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube, has left the video-sharing site to pursue special projects at Google http://ping.fm/i9i74
PayPal Study. Web Merchants Often Fail To Close Deal. Wall St Journal http://ping.fm/uPsOj
Digital UK: Who gains and loses from government's Digital Britain report? http://ping.fm/Dwxf1
PayPal Tips - Download beta widgets, created by PayPal engineers http://ping.fm/4tfOY
Oracle Sells $4.5 Billion of Debt to Finance Sun Acquisition http://ping.fm/Hl0fW
Free tutorials on How to Write White Papers & How to Improve your White Papers http://ping.fm/LKBuK
Example of an XML sitemap for Wordpress. Made with WordPress & Google Sitemap Generator Plugin http://ping.fm/QrEOK
Copyright Free articles for your Website, Newsletter or Blog. Business, IT and Sales content. http://ping.fm/3wAki
Proposal Writing Tips - Never say "price" or "cost". Instead, use the word "investment". http://ping.fm/uFjE5
Data Model Template - Excel spreadsheet showing fields, values and relationships. Flickr http://ping.fm/1Qpvt
How to develop a Change Management Plan? Define the process, tools, and stakeholders to manage changes to the project http://ping.fm/r1x6p
Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile out of beta http://ping.fm/vPiOp
Shortest URLs on Earth http://tinyarro.ws/
Connect Flickr to your BlackBerry smartphone http://ping.fm/iDQlT
Songbird. Open-source music player, non-proprietary, cross platform. Very slick http://getsongbird.com/
Adium. Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that connects to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo http://adium.im/
Business Cards For Your Money
The web’s top printing services laid out and compared for you. See the comparison graph for some easy shopping for you freelancers.
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bryanconnor.com/2009/06/12-business-card-printing-sites-f...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Download the Kindle machine readable Source Code. From Amazon site: http://ping.fm/9EDdx
How to use the Google Checkout shopping cart http://ping.fm/oTPNp Demo here http://ping.fm/vpfbk
Yahoo Kills Maven only 17 Months. $160 USD loss. http://ping.fm/IwgTI
4 ways to deliver your digital products, incl attachments, download links, and PIN Numbers http://ping.fm/76Vmy
Adobe close all offices for 1 week http://ping.fm/5RE5u
Google Adsense guide explains its payment process http://ping.fm/4rm8R
PayPal Tip - 20 companies that deliver digital content using e-commerce platforms pre-integrated with PayPal, eg Payloadz. http://ping.fm/sZQa4
Flash Developers - buy n sell your Flash applications, preloaders, menus, utilities etc http://ping.fm/bpzNx
Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Master Inventor, predicts the future http://ping.fm/c0RXm
Ft.com. Microsoft to sell Razorfish. Acquired in $6bn takeover of aQuantive in 2007. Value $600m-$700m http://ping.fm/KPN4h
Case Study Template Pack. Includes tutorial on How to Write a Case Study and Information Gathering Forms. http://ping.fm/3tKhb
See the very first Google Logo (backrub) http://ping.fm/6B5JJ
Google Press Centre - download review guides for bloggers interested in Google products http://ping.fm/TDEta
Sunday, June 28, 2009
How to take a screenshot of the entire web page. http://ping.fm/hjZoV See this example of the New York Times
How to add a PayPal donation button to your site http://ping.fm/4LyNL
Photo of rare coin from the East India Company 1845. Think of Google in the 1800s http://ping.fm/ADgB2
Deployment Plan Tips - describe the installation, configuration, operational processes to be modified in the deployment process http://ping.fm/O7iMp
Adsense Tip #2 - Which countries support Bank Transfer from Google Adsense to your bank a/c? http://ping.fm/P4hET
Adsense Tip - How do I verify the test deposit amount in my account? http://ping.fm/WprhR
Action Plan Tips - For each task, prepare a list of to-dos ranked in sequential order. Break out smaller tasks http://ping.fm/4xtrt
Twitter Tip - How to backup all your tweets to your PC. http://ping.fm/391nV
How to submit your story to Google News http://ping.fm/d9R9U and http://ping.fm/LWvTl
$872 for a keyboard? Logitech Media Keyboard 600 Wired Keyboard http://ping.fm/Wjqdw
Keyboard shortcuts for Windows http://ping.fm/yZBqY and more here http://ping.fm/mxzDd and for MAC http://ping.fm/13Kns
World of Warcraft Keyboard Cover for Apple Keyboard/Apple Wireless Keyboard http://ping.fm/SWx3p
Saturday, June 27, 2009
How to publish your blog on Kindle http://ping.fm/8Z1MV
Clickbank Tip. How to test your payment links before you go live http://ping.fm/VnJ60
How to create Public Relations Plan. Target publications, delivers message, and schedules releases http://ping.fm/y0sfv
Podcast Tips - How to monitor/track the success of your business podcast http://ping.fm/wT96Q
How to create Use Case diagrams in Visio. Show system functions, actors and interactions http://ping.fm/v2Eqj
Diagram of how Mobile Interaction works. How to design interactive iphone applications http://ping.fm/q2cWX
Tools to Create Sitemaps – How to get your site indexed by Google http://ping.fm/1mGdC
Jakob Nielsen explains the different benefits that Short versus Long articles bring to your site http://ping.fm/Qgi2F
Project Management Primer #8 - Difference between a Business Case and Project Proposal? http://ping.fm/BcMP9
How to develop a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between a service provider and customer in measurable terms http://ping.fm/kCPc8
The Household CEO - Snapshot of modern woman and her role as an Alpha Mom http://ping.fm/UMxbv
Use Watermarks to personalize your documents http://ping.fm/IJDzK
New Yahoo homepage. How to fix Error message http://ping.fm/zT7ZZ
Five Ways to Sell Digital Goods Online. Review of eJunkie, PayLoadz and other digital delivery providers http://ping.fm/X4oSR
TypingWeb is a free online typing tutor & keyboarding tutorial for all ages. http://ping.fm/zYMhU
FeedMingle - mix multiple feeds into one & create a combined RSS, Atom, JSON or widget http://feedmingle.com/
Create a video-enabled calling card http://robo.to/
Sample HTML Code for PayPal Buy Now Buttons http://ping.fm/uH9qM
How to develop Website Requirements. Define content, audience, control budget, costs & schedule http://ping.fm/XFRit
Send your podcast to blogs, websites and social networks http://ping.fm/IHHFo
Johnnie Walker - Evolution advert http://ping.fm/pTXkB
Homer Simpson - Word Templates http://ping.fm/Nn5FJ
Documentation Plan describes how technical documentation is prepared, delivered and distributed. Aka Information Development (ID) Plan. http://ping.fm/MMD6j
Process Design Tutorial #2 | How to use Business Process Modeling Techniques in Software Development http://ping.fm/Cr32q
Firefox Tip. Instablogs Newsroom Submitter lets you submit anything on the web you think is newsworthy http://ping.fm/419nj
Replaces short urls with the originals so you can see where links actually link to. http://ping.fm/yjoMN
Friday, June 26, 2009
Adobe Speech Search helps bring video online by turning spoken words into keywords, making videos searchable http://ping.fm/3Pi9s
Preview release of Acrobat.com Tables. Alternative to Google Docs and ZOHO. http://ping.fm/jxI9V
How to add a Geolocation Button to Wordpress with Greasemonkey, YQL, and Placemaker http://ping.fm/ZmnRN
How to use an Acrobat 8 Form to collect data over the Web http://ping.fm/QW3PP
Adobe PRC Format Specification. PRC files are optimized to store, load, and display 3D data, e.g. for CAD http://ping.fm/jvQ9C
Alice in Wonderland - Original illustrations from first publication.
http://ping.fm/SgMlV
http://ping.fm/SgMlV
Tip: how to take a Screenshot of a 'floating' window instead of the entire screen. Avoid having to edit/crop image http://ping.fm/iQTZd
What skills do Technical Writers need the most? http://ping.fm/ABL4Z
Thursday, June 25, 2009
RFP Bid / Proposal Checklist. Includes ranking system for assessing your readiness, before developing a strong proposal http://ping.fm/hep9P
The Future of Digital Books? Wall Street Journal article “The Digital Future of Books” by L. Gordon Crovitz http://ping.fm/LfSvo
Process Design Tutorial #2 | How to use Business Process Modeling Techniques in Software Development http://ping.fm/tvxlC
Get the New Clickbank Buy Buttons http://ping.fm/IRMz1
Screen Capture in Education. New Techsmith educational resource for schools. Snagit / Jing tutorials http://ping.fm/V9Zb8
Apple.com scrolled tab carousel
scrolled-tab-carousel-nav-apple
Originally uploaded by Designing Web Interfaces
It is a good example of bridging the new with the familiar. Sometimes carousels are harder for people to find the arrows (depending on how they are rendered). But a scrollbar is universal.
This also blends the concept of a tabbed notebook into a carousel as well.
Of course it would inappropriate to use this if you had multiple carousels on the page.
Designing Web Interfaces
Without Javascript enabled, you can see the original multi-page flow for the “Add to Queue” process on the Netflix site
Designing Web Interfaces, by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Copyright 2009 Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, 978-0-596-51625-3
Designing Web Interfaces, by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Copyright 2009 Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, 978-0-596-51625-3
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
PayPal Online Logo Center. Login and then go here http://ping.fm/RIoi4
4 Mistakes Video Bloggers Make and How to Avoid Them http://ping.fm/yn1Si
How to make a PayPal donation button - button creation screen
How to make a PayPal Donation Button
PayPal Donations is a very nice way to let people donate a small amount of your site, usually as a thank you for providing quality information, tips or advice.
You can use this to collect donations from a PayPal Donation button on your website, or even using it as a link in your email.
PayPal Donations is a low cost way for you to accept credit card and bank account donations.
Benefits
Easy to implement - no programming experience necessary. Jus copy and paste the code.
No up-front costs - same low fee schedule as other PayPal payments
No hidden charges – PayPal don’t charge for this service. There are no hidden costs
Reports - PayPal maintains detailed transaction records so you can track your donations
Flexibility – your donors can choose to give an amount of their choice (recommended) or you can set a fixed amount
The PayPal Donation button designer won't automatically place the button code on your website, but you can copy and paste the code into your blog or website's code.
The Create Button designer screen lets you customize the look and field of the button, donation amounts, currency types, and other options. You can also create a library of buttons and re-use these rather than starting from scratch every time.
To add PayPal Donations to your website, follow these steps:
The webpage you use to design the buttons has three sections. You only need to use the first one: the others are optional.
1. Choose the button type and enter the payment details
2. Save your button (an optional step)
3. Customize the advanced features (also optional)
Let’s get started.
1. Log in to your PayPal Premier or Business account at https://www.paypal.com/.
The My Account Overview page opens.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
The Profile Summary page opens.
3. Under the Selling Preferences heading, click the My Saved Buttons link.
The My Saved Buttons page opens.
4. Click Create New Button.
The Create Payment Button page opens. This is where you will create the actual button.
How to Choose the button type and enter payment details
Let’s get started and choose the button type we want to use.
1. In the Accept payments for dropdown menu, select “Donations”.
2. In Organization name/service, enter the name of your organization
3. In Donation ID (optional), enter a unique number if you want to track the donation.
The next step is to customize the button. In other words, do you want a simple image with only the word ’Donation’ or do you want to add credit cards to it?
You can also upload your own image, which can be useful if you want to blend it into your site’s color scheme.
4. Click the blue triangle next to ‘Customize appearance’.
5. Click the PayPal button box.
You now have two options: customize the PayPal button or upload your own.
6. If you want to customize the PayPal button:
6.1 Click Use smaller button - if you want a Donate button without any branding or credit card logos.
6.2 Click Display credit card logos - if you want display credit card logos such as Visa and MasterCard.
6.3 Select the Country and language for button. I recommend United States – US – English.
When you change the settings, a preview of your image appears in the Buyer’s View pane.
7. If you want use your own image.
7.1 Click Use your own button image.
7.2 Enter the URL of where your image is located on the web. At the moment, you can’t upload an image to PayPal directly.
Note: PayPal will not show your image onscreen when you use this option. But, when you create the code later on, it works fine. You can always go back and change it, by the way.
Next you're going to select the currency.
8. Choose a Currency from one of these:
USD AUD GBP CAD CZK DKK EUR HKD HUF ILS JPY MXN NZD NOK PLN SGD SEK CHF.
Again, most of you will select USD (US Dollars but you can choose what you want).
Tip: If you choose a currency other than USD you run the risk of people not making a donation. People don’t want to get tricked into paying with a currency they don’t understand. If you make them go check the currency rate, they might have second thoughts on paying.
Keep it simple. Use the USD option.
Next up is the contribution amount.
9. In Contribution amount, select one of the options:
9.1. Donors enter their own contribution amount.
Let people choose to donate 1 dollar of 1 million. It’s their choice. I use this.
Never under-estimate how generous people can be if you provide really useful content (like this!)
9.2. Donors contribute a fixed amount.
I’d avoid this. It’s a bit ham-fisted and forces people to pay when you think they should, under-mining the principle of making a donation. To me, this looks more like a pseudo-payment. I’d suggest you avoid it. But, hey, it’s your site. Don’t let me stop you.
10. Next, enter the email address where the donations are sent to. Usually you're PayPal account email address.
Step 2 and 3 are optional, so you can ignore these for now. Take a peek if you want or you can skip ahead and create the button.
The final step is to get the code for the button.
11. Click Create Button at the end of the screen.
This opens the Button Code page.
12. Click Select Code to select the HTML code.
13 Copy the code (CTRL+C for Windows and CMD+C for Mac)
13. Paste the code into your blog or webpage (Ctrl + V)
We’re not finished yet!
14. PayPal also gives you the option to add the button to emails. Fantastic if you're selling things via email or are big into good ol’ web marketing.
Just copy and paste the link into your email. Send a few tests to yourself to check that it works. Also try the link in Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail to check that everything works fine with these.
Now you're finished.
Other things you can do on this page
Click Create Similar button if you want to use the button you just create as a template for your next button. Nice time-saver as you can use the same configuration settings.
Click Create a new button to create a new button from scratch.
Click Create Similar button if you want to create another button, with all the same/similar configuration settings as this button or
I hope you enjoyed this article and that is made the whole process of creating PayPal buttons a little easier.
Next week, I’ll show you how to use more advanced features in PayPal, like setting up a Thank You page or sending customers to a download page automatically.
PayPal Donations is a very nice way to let people donate a small amount of your site, usually as a thank you for providing quality information, tips or advice.
You can use this to collect donations from a PayPal Donation button on your website, or even using it as a link in your email.
PayPal Donations is a low cost way for you to accept credit card and bank account donations.
Benefits
Easy to implement - no programming experience necessary. Jus copy and paste the code.
No up-front costs - same low fee schedule as other PayPal payments
No hidden charges – PayPal don’t charge for this service. There are no hidden costs
Reports - PayPal maintains detailed transaction records so you can track your donations
Flexibility – your donors can choose to give an amount of their choice (recommended) or you can set a fixed amount
The PayPal Donation button designer won't automatically place the button code on your website, but you can copy and paste the code into your blog or website's code.
The Create Button designer screen lets you customize the look and field of the button, donation amounts, currency types, and other options. You can also create a library of buttons and re-use these rather than starting from scratch every time.
To add PayPal Donations to your website, follow these steps:
The webpage you use to design the buttons has three sections. You only need to use the first one: the others are optional.
1. Choose the button type and enter the payment details
2. Save your button (an optional step)
3. Customize the advanced features (also optional)
Let’s get started.
1. Log in to your PayPal Premier or Business account at https://www.paypal.com/.
The My Account Overview page opens.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
The Profile Summary page opens.
3. Under the Selling Preferences heading, click the My Saved Buttons link.
The My Saved Buttons page opens.
4. Click Create New Button.
The Create Payment Button page opens. This is where you will create the actual button.
How to Choose the button type and enter payment details
Let’s get started and choose the button type we want to use.
1. In the Accept payments for dropdown menu, select “Donations”.
2. In Organization name/service, enter the name of your organization
3. In Donation ID (optional), enter a unique number if you want to track the donation.
The next step is to customize the button. In other words, do you want a simple image with only the word ’Donation’ or do you want to add credit cards to it?
You can also upload your own image, which can be useful if you want to blend it into your site’s color scheme.
4. Click the blue triangle next to ‘Customize appearance’.
5. Click the PayPal button box.
You now have two options: customize the PayPal button or upload your own.
6. If you want to customize the PayPal button:
6.1 Click Use smaller button - if you want a Donate button without any branding or credit card logos.
6.2 Click Display credit card logos - if you want display credit card logos such as Visa and MasterCard.
6.3 Select the Country and language for button. I recommend United States – US – English.
When you change the settings, a preview of your image appears in the Buyer’s View pane.
7. If you want use your own image.
7.1 Click Use your own button image.
7.2 Enter the URL of where your image is located on the web. At the moment, you can’t upload an image to PayPal directly.
Note: PayPal will not show your image onscreen when you use this option. But, when you create the code later on, it works fine. You can always go back and change it, by the way.
Next you're going to select the currency.
8. Choose a Currency from one of these:
USD AUD GBP CAD CZK DKK EUR HKD HUF ILS JPY MXN NZD NOK PLN SGD SEK CHF.
Again, most of you will select USD (US Dollars but you can choose what you want).
Tip: If you choose a currency other than USD you run the risk of people not making a donation. People don’t want to get tricked into paying with a currency they don’t understand. If you make them go check the currency rate, they might have second thoughts on paying.
Keep it simple. Use the USD option.
Next up is the contribution amount.
9. In Contribution amount, select one of the options:
9.1. Donors enter their own contribution amount.
Let people choose to donate 1 dollar of 1 million. It’s their choice. I use this.
Never under-estimate how generous people can be if you provide really useful content (like this!)
9.2. Donors contribute a fixed amount.
I’d avoid this. It’s a bit ham-fisted and forces people to pay when you think they should, under-mining the principle of making a donation. To me, this looks more like a pseudo-payment. I’d suggest you avoid it. But, hey, it’s your site. Don’t let me stop you.
10. Next, enter the email address where the donations are sent to. Usually you're PayPal account email address.
Step 2 and 3 are optional, so you can ignore these for now. Take a peek if you want or you can skip ahead and create the button.
The final step is to get the code for the button.
11. Click Create Button at the end of the screen.
This opens the Button Code page.
12. Click Select Code to select the HTML code.
13 Copy the code (CTRL+C for Windows and CMD+C for Mac)
13. Paste the code into your blog or webpage (Ctrl + V)
We’re not finished yet!
14. PayPal also gives you the option to add the button to emails. Fantastic if you're selling things via email or are big into good ol’ web marketing.
Just copy and paste the link into your email. Send a few tests to yourself to check that it works. Also try the link in Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail to check that everything works fine with these.
Now you're finished.
Other things you can do on this page
Click Create Similar button if you want to use the button you just create as a template for your next button. Nice time-saver as you can use the same configuration settings.
Click Create a new button to create a new button from scratch.
Click Create Similar button if you want to create another button, with all the same/similar configuration settings as this button or
I hope you enjoyed this article and that is made the whole process of creating PayPal buttons a little easier.
Next week, I’ll show you how to use more advanced features in PayPal, like setting up a Thank You page or sending customers to a download page automatically.
What Yahoo Mail looks like with images turned off
Should you use PayPal Buy Now or Donation buttons in emails?
Personally, I don’t use PayPal Buy Now or Donations when sending out emails. There are a couple of reasons for this.
1) it’s too hard sell – selling directly through email rarely works.
2) spam filters will pick it out and send your lovely email to the spam filter, adding your email address to the ISPs blacklist in the process (which you can’t undo) and
3) many people (myself included) turn off images in their email.
In other words, I never see any images when I use Yahoo or Hotmail. This means that my emails download faster (less bandwidth required) without images and most are just eye candy with no value add.
To quote Ken Brockman - Just my 2 cents.
More at: http://www.ivanwalsh.com/2009/06/should-you-use-paypal-buy-now-or-donation-buttons-in-emails/
Personally, I don’t use PayPal Buy Now or Donations when sending out emails. There are a couple of reasons for this.
1) it’s too hard sell – selling directly through email rarely works.
2) spam filters will pick it out and send your lovely email to the spam filter, adding your email address to the ISPs blacklist in the process (which you can’t undo) and
3) many people (myself included) turn off images in their email.
In other words, I never see any images when I use Yahoo or Hotmail. This means that my emails download faster (less bandwidth required) without images and most are just eye candy with no value add.
To quote Ken Brockman - Just my 2 cents.
More at: http://www.ivanwalsh.com/2009/06/should-you-use-paypal-buy-now-or-donation-buttons-in-emails/
Twitter Tip: Add a ‘Tweet This’ Link to your Blog on WordPress or Blogger http://ping.fm/4HrZD
Clickbank v eJunkie.com - Comparision between Ecommerce Providers

Clickbank v eJunkie.com - Comparision between Ecommerce Providers
Originally uploaded by Tech Writer Boy
Clickbank.com had 683,502 unique visits
month +0.51%
year +23.66%
Top Search Terms included : clickbank,clickbank.com,click bank,clickbank login,clickbank
Top Referral Sites: google.com,yahoo.com,facebook.com,twitter.com,cj.com
Top Destination Sites (3,852 Sites): google.com,yahoo.com,cj.com,twitter.com,facebook.com
Top Tags: ad-serving,marketer-interest
e-junkie.com had 426,529 unique visits
monthly +11.70%
yearly +128.94%
Top Search Terms (478 Terms): lowes coupon,ejunkie,lowes coupons,e-junkie,ccccpn
Top Referral Sites (874 Sites): google.com,paypal.com,yahoo.com,smartappsportal.com,thesimpledollar.com
Download the results in Excel format from: siteanalytics.compete.com/clickbank.com+e-junkie.com/
You can also grab the code and embed it in your site.
flickr Activity Page - Full Page Screenshot
Go to
www.flickr.com/activity/customized/
and change the options.
Really useful if you get lots of comments or want to track activity related to your images.
Ivan
www.ivanwalsh.com
www.flickr.com/activity/customized/
and change the options.
Really useful if you get lots of comments or want to track activity related to your images.
Ivan
www.ivanwalsh.com
You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks

You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks
Originally uploaded by Tech Writer Boy
You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks.
Or maybe the PayPal content management system hasn’t synced the different releases, which is probably the real reason.
Even so, I'm surprised these error messages blame the user (me!) rather than just saying ‘we messed up’ and are now looking into it.
More screenshots:
http://www.ivanwalsh.com/2009/06/what-does-it-mean-you-have-requested-an-outdated-version-of-paypal/
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Interface of a Cheeseburger http://ping.fm/08fXE
Bing - What's New in Version 1.1b of the Live Search API http://ping.fm/CZAxH
Web Publishing - XDocs DITA Component CMS includes XML editor and publishing engine http://ping.fm/llvVn
Microsoft Open XML Format SDK 1.0. New file format based on XML called Open XML Formats. MSDN http://ping.fm/NsI6I
Wired - 5 Signs Obama Is a Geek http://ping.fm/8PG8z
Dutch Gov. To Tax Online Media To Bailoit Print Media http://ping.fm/z972m
DITA2wiki toolkit lets you publish DITA content (maps and topics) to a Wiki http://ping.fm/6IhVN
How to Add Color to a Kindle http://ping.fm/kQMRn
Schwarzenegger issues total recall of California's textbooks to help state avoid bankruptcy. http://ping.fm/d8SxA
Social Computing Meets Product Development http://ping.fm/OafmE
5 Ways Your Business Can Profit From Web 2.0 http://ping.fm/ymZR6
LinkedIn User Guide. Get the most from this social networking site http://ping.fm/vBjfy
eBay Tip - How to create an effective listing http://ping.fm/Oz2am
Why XML automation might help prevent the next financial crisis http://ping.fm/FuD63
Google Insights. Web Search Volume for Social Media http://ping.fm/YRPDB
YAK Wordpress open source shopping cart. Developed by SourceForge http://ping.fm/w502b
Monday, June 22, 2009
Review of Groundswell – Social Media Technologies Forrester Research

Review of Groundswell – Social Media Technologies Forrester Research
Originally uploaded by Tech Writer Boy
Screenshot from Ivan Walsh's review of Groundswell, Social Media Success, from Forrester Research.
Book Review here:
Review of Groundswell – Winning in a world transformed by social technologies
http://www.ivanwalsh.com/2009/06/review-of-groundswell-winning-in-a-world-transformed-by-social-technologies/
Flickr Twitter Beta - how to send tweets from Flickr to Twitter. FAQs here http://ping.fm/lKfLv
Best of Flickr - The Library of Congress photostream http://ping.fm/BIAjh










