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Nowadays, one of the most important components of any online store is payment processing. There are several methods available to merchants, but one of the most popularly used is PayPal, it lets its consumers pay for their purchases using a credit card, bank transfer or with funds from their own PayPal account balance. When checking out, the customer is directed to a page designed to match your own site that’s located on PayPal’s secure servers. Once consumer is done choosing a payment method (PayPal cash payment or credit card), the customer is then returned to your site and the payment, once cleared, is deposited to your own PayPal account. PayPal also supports international payment terms.

The Oracle DBA’s have long been wished to be able to capture applications workloads in a production environment and then it replays that workload against a test environment to determine the impact of the proposed database or application changes on the database performance. The new Database Replay feature enables an Oracle DBA to capture, massage and then replay workloads either selectively or in their own entirety within a wide range of database platforms and environment.

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The internet was first designed with the machines developed for humans who had to adapt to standards that were more or less limited by the way machines were out together. The term micro-format is a revolutionary way of looking at the web which as we know has evolved a lot since it’s inception. The new way developers look at the internet/web is with the people who use them in from of the machines which we do our work making them more human-like and acceptable as technology for people. The web has been doing well, as far as serving us able to give us what we need and serving the many businesses who fund the infrastructure at which we work in, call it a win-win battle. But there is a very much important factor that has to evolve that has to do with our very human nature, we all differ from one to another in terms of preference. Read the rest of this entry »

Not all web pages have to be as serious as hell to get the attention of your customers and followers for there are a lot of funny ones that do make the cut by using rather unorthodox pages that whilst their bizarre forms still keep the customers rolling in as can be seen on this site. Call them guerrilla designs or rogue themed ones but they are interesting enough to get people interested to dig deeper and even get onto your services or whatever you may be marketing. Professional sites promote using professional themes and methods accepted and quite standardized in the industry. But for freelance works and sites that are for public consumption, the sky’s the limit when to comes to design. Read the rest of this entry »

With SEO comes self-promotion which is very much misunderstood and people tend to do this so heavily people are swayed from coming back. Links should be credible and must give credence to claims, linking to popular sites and giving due recognition for sources that need them as much as you do. For more professional sites you’d wish to quote or derive information from, a well prepared and courteous request for such an action would be in order, it also helps a lot with legalities should you be cited for plagiarism, a common occurrence in today’s blogging world. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody who has worked with SEO knows that proper selection of your links, phrases and words for SEO purposes is one of the most effective way to promote your product, site or other services. Page ranking is done by the many search engine bots and selecting the most likely term,phrase or word that your prospective customers are to search for, the more likely they will be landing on your page. There is one important thing to consider when engaging in SEO, and that is you don;t only want more people to get into your site, but those visits should also translate to sales or profits because of the particular page they laded in. Read the rest of this entry »

A globally recognized avatar or to put it short, a Gravatar, was conceptualized by Tom Werner. It is simply an avatar image that appears beside your name everytime you comment on gravatar enabled sites.

Usually, the size of a Gravatar is 80 by 80 pixels. There is also a rating for each image, allowing the webmasters to control the content of to Gravatar to be displayed on their website. Email addresses are hashed with the MD5 cryptographic hash function to eliminate spam and prevent spambots from harvesting e-mail addresses.

1. PayPal Merchant Services: Free Individual Purchase Buttons: The first step to access PayPal is to go to the Merchant Section on its website. Generate the HTML code needed to make your buttons which you can add to your product pages: Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, Subscribe and Buy a Gift Certificate. If you want to sell a single item, you should use the PayPal “Buy Now” button.

2. PayPal Merchant Services:Free Shopping Cart Buttons: Using free shopping cart you can sell multiple items on your site which you can customize your buttons and messages. Instead of linking a button on individual product pages, the PayPal cart is designed to let your would be customers to browse all your posted merchandise before purchasing.

It’s an ultimate user interactivity, drag and drop is basically not given importance in some desktop applications but it is an integral test for web applications. If you will try to implement drag and drop in your web application framework, then you made the right decision. Nowadays, drag and drop for web apps has been limited to JavaScript frameworks such as Script.aculo.us and Rico. With the advent of GWT it does not explicitly support drag and drop, it provides you with all the necessary ingredients to make your own module.

3. PayPal Widgets: Free Storefronts The widget lets you create you create online your graphically pleasing Web Storefront. Upload your products, prices, shipping parameters, set descriptions and then display the widget to your website. You can customize it with a theme, title, information on your store and don’t forget the logo. After that, choose the product you want to display and select selling options. You then publish it for auto insertion into the TypePador get the HTML code to copy and paste on your Web space.

4.  PayPal Flash Button Creator:Free Trial or $29.99 to Buy: Its free for 30 days, this tool will let you create Shock Wave Flash files for any PayPal buttons including;Buy Now, cart, View, Donation or Subscription. To start creating your customized button, you choose one item, cart or subscription and fill in the required fields like: price, ID, item number, currency, tax and your business and Web site information plus your policies. However, this is a 30 days free trial, a registered version is available online for $29.99.

5. PayPal Button Machine:Free Trial or $19.99 to Buy

A second offer from the same company is the Button Machine, this button generating tool is an excellent option to those who do not have or use a broadband Internet connection. You can make any of the buttons like – Buy it Now, Subscription and Cart..offline.  Its interface is the same with the Flash Button Creator. Once you finished creating the button, you go into the Button Code tab and get your code and you can choose to encrypt or update the code. The trial version is free for 30 days, you can buy the registered one for $19.99.