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Archive for July, 2008

Becoming an ebay affiliate using the eBay Partner Network

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

A fortunate accident It's funny how you find stuff online, usually by accident. I was checking that my brother's bestisotonic.com website is showing up in Google listings, when I noticed that it had been picked up by an unfamiliar site called Lord ...

10 essential destinations for bloggers

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Interesting stuff | No Comments »

Hooked on blogging I've only been at this blogging lark for a short time, but I've been amazed at how enjoyable it is and how it really hooks you. Not only is it great fun finding topics and researching and writing about ...

Creating buttons using Google checkout

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Pressing the right buttons When I was working on my brother's 'Buy now' buttons for bestisotonic.com he was initially keen to add Worldpay as one of the payment options on the site. I signed up for a Worldpay account a long time ...

Putting Paypal buttons on your website

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Putting payment buttons on your website You probably won't travel very far in the world of making websites before you need to accept some form of payment on your website. My websites are full of payment pages - take a look at ...

Back-ups, managing files and FTP accounts in cPanel

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Managing your websites in cPanel The best way to manage your website is via an FTP package. FTP is basically how web files get from your PC or laptop (where only you can see them) onto a server (where everybody else can ...