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Using PayPal with your Website

We often see 2 uses of eCommerce on a website besides selling products:
Customer payments for services
Donations
PayPal offers 2 solutions (Website Payments Standard and Website Payments Pro).
1. Website Payments Standard – a FREE solution that lets you place a ‘Buy Now’ button on your website. When a user clicks this button they are transferred to [...]

Organizing email between your computer and cell phone

My current email strategy is to use Google Apps for your Domain with my iPhone with the Apple Mail client. Because I am constantly referring to my ‘Sent Items’ and projects are sometimes managed through email, keeping my mail synchronized and organized is a challenge.
Here are some approaches:
1. Keep mail on the server for [...]

How does a Small Business use the Web?

Using the web is important to Small Businesses for different reasons:
Brochure Website – you have a website because everyone has told you that it’s a requirement these days.
Online Reputation/Location – when people Google you, they can find your location in Google Maps or read a review in Yelp or CitySearch.
Increase Sales – actively driving people [...]

What is RSS?

If you aren’t familiar with RSS try a quick Google search or read the Wikipedia definition before continuing reading this post.
RSS is a great way for websites to keep a connection with their users. Let me explain how I use RSS:
1. When I am reading something on the web and I come across a [...]

Google Apps

Google offers a free suite of applications called Google Apps for your Domain. This suite comes with the following:
Email (Gmail)
Calendar Sharing
Document Authoring
Our Clients use Google Apps mainly for Email. Google’s email program called Gmail is highly recommended. You can setup Outlook or another Email Client to download email using POP or IMAP [...]