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CREATION

Main web page of Website Creation Help.INDEX - Main WCH Page
Reasons why you should invest in a website.Why Invest In A Website?
Explains the important features you should look for in a web hosting package before buying a website.Research Host Features
How to research and view a Domain Name through the WhoIs lookup service. Advice on choosing a Domain Name.Domain Name Advice
Basic keyword advice/tips and tools/services that can help with your Keyword/Keyphrase research.Keyword Research
Explains some types of software needed for website creation and their costs.Website Software Costs
Some common Web Terminology (Website Jargon) explained.Website Terminology
Explains bandwidth, bandwidth usage and bandwidth distribution.Bandwidth And Usage
How to write a robotstxt.txt text file. Basic robotstxt instructions explained.Robotstxt Text File
An explanation of common Meta Tags.Meta Tags Explained
Some realities of using a cheap web hosting package. Is it all bad news? I have bought one to show you what the truth is.Cheap Website Hosting
How to purchase a web hosting package - The registration and payment processes explained and exampled.How To Buy A Website
How to hide personal .co.uk domain name registration details using Nominet WHOIS Opt-Out.Nominet WHOIS Opt-Out
Website and Internet Jargon (Terminology) Explained.Website & Net Jargon
Free (Must Have) Downloads - (Free/Commercial Software/PHP Scripts).FREE Software & Scripts

 

CPanel

How to Login to the CPanel Control Panel - A description of CPanel Tools.CPanel Login & Tools
How to create a website email account (email address). Make your website business/project look more professional.Create Email Addresses
How to create an Auto-Response (Automatic Reply) Email. Avoid losing potential customers.Create Auto-Reply Email
How to create an empty MySQL Database with Privileges. Ideal for Personal Databases and for use with PHP Scripts.Create MySQL Database
How to create a table for an empty MySQL Database and then fill that table with records (rows of data). Also demonstrates the VTY Database Manager (PHP Script).Create MySQL Tables
How to create a FTP User Account (File Sharing Folder). People can upload/download files to/from your website (FTP Server).Create FTP, User, Account
How to create a Password Protected Directory (Folder). Ideal for Membership purposes.Create A Password Folder
How to obtain an EPP (Domain Name Transfer) Code. How to create a new website, folder, from an ADD-ON Domain Name.ADD-ON A Domain Name
How to park a domain name and redirect it to an existing domain name. Masking (Cloaking) explained.Park A Domain Name
How to create a subdomain - A shortened URL (website address) that is quicker to type into a web browser.Create Subdomain Name
How to configure a domain name for use on a different web hosting package (on different website servers/computers), so you can have domain names registered elsewhere but host them on your website.Change Name Servers
How to configure namecheap host records for use with google adsense for domains. Use namecheap parked domain names with google adsense for domains.Change Host Records
A comparison of the Installatron softwares found in the CPanel control panel against those found on the author's website. Are the CPanel versions up-to-date and useful?Installatron Softwares

 

FEATURES

How to create a membership account, registration, login website using PHP Login Scripts and a MySQL Database.Create A Membership Site
How to create a PayPal PREMIER Account, so you can buy and sell goods online.Create A PayPal Account
How to create a PayPal BUY NOW button. An explanation of common button settings.Create A PayPal Button
How to create a Google Adsense (Advertisement Scheme) Account. Earn money from advertisements shown on your website.Create Adsense Account
How to create Google Adsense Advertisements (Adsense Units and Channels). Earn money from advertisements shown on your website. Monitor their success and failure!Create Adsense Adverts
How to create a sitemap xml file for the search engines, so they can crawl your unknown, newly uploaded, web pages.Create Sitemap XML File
How to manually install wordpress (download wordpress .zip file, set up MySQL Database configuration and upload wordpress files) to create a blog.1) Install Wordpress Blog
How to write and publish an article (post). How to create a Category for that post. General Dashboard (Control Panel) features/settings explained and/or exampled.2) Write An Article (Post)
How to import media into an article (post), create a link, create a page, edit a comment and more.3) Media, Link, Page, Etc
How to download and install a new wordpress blog theme. How to change the default wordpress blog theme (appearance).4) Change Default Theme
How to download and install the Forum (Questions & Answers Board) software called phpBB.1) Install A phpBB Forum
How to set up forum notice boards (questions and answers forums) with permissions.2) Set Up Forum Boards

 

TRAFFIC

Methods of investigating your competition's website, traffic, history.View A Website's History
Gives ideas for generating, more, traffic and reasons why existing traffic might be Curious Visitors only as opposed to being Interested, Buying, Visitors.Ways To Get More Traffic
How to submit a Website's URL (website address) to search engines, so that they can start indexing its content.Submit To Search Engines
Reasons why you should add Prices, Maps, References and Photos to a website.Why Add Prices & Media
Part One - Explains some of the realities of writing and submitting articles. The dis/advantages of submitting articles manually or via software submitter. Submitted article results. And much more.1) Articles - Basic Realities
Part Two - Explains about the Title, Content, Time Frames, Money and Feedback associated with article writing/submission.2) Articles - Basic Rules
Part Three - Shows my submitted articles results for September 2009 and October 2009, and then shows the overall results from July 2009 to March 2010.3) Articles - The Results
Highlights some of the common scams/techniques used by a bad Internet Marketer (Guru) to hook you into buying their Blueprint (Website Traffic/SEO/Search Engine/Etc Plan) and/or Tools.Avoid Scammer GURUs
Things to consider when deciding upon a screen resolution (screen size) to use for your website design/format/layout. The wrong screen size can lose you traffic.Website And Screen Size
Some DOs and DON'Ts advice with regards to forum traffic and the forum community.Forum Traffic Advice
Results and observations from splitting up a website into separate domains. Is one website better than three websites?Splitting Up A Website

This firefox add-on allows you to see your search results within other countries. A great traffic insight tool.Global Search Results
An excellent audio seminar telling it how it is traffic-wise.Traffic REALITY (Gold)

 

TOOLS

How to grab a colour from the screen, and edit a colour, using the colour picker/grabber called Color Cop. RGB, Hex and Decimal colour formats explained.Colour Grabber & Picker
How to take multiple snapshots (screen captures/photos) of the computer screen and save them automatically, as .bmp or .jpg files, with the screen grabber/snapshot program called Grabby.Take Snapshot Of Screen
How to set up and use the desktop screen recorder called Easy Screen Recorder. Records the desktop screen and microphone input as an .avi audio/video file. Easy to set up and use.Desktop Screen Recorder
How to set up and use Leawo Video Converter, so that you can convert video recordings into various video file formats. Video Codecs explained.Video File Converter
How to install the FTP Client (website file transfer program) called FileZilla.Install FileZilla FTP Client
How to set up a secure, ftpes, ftp connection (ftp account/website profile) for the FileZilla FTP Client.Set Up FTPES Connection
How to connect to your website (public_html) folder and upload folders/files to it, so they are live on the internet.Upload Files To Website
How to create a Google Analytics (Website Statistics) Account, so you can see visitor data and better cater for them.Create Analytics Account
How to install mozilla firefox web browser add-ons / plug-ins / Extension programs that can help with your website development.Install Firefox Add-Ons
Web Easy Professional 8 - How to build a website using the template wizard (website assistant).WEP8 - Build A Website

 

CODING

How to embed a .flv flash video file inside a web page using JW Player or Flow Player.Embed A FLV Video File
One method of fixing the Internet Explorer 6 .png transparent image file problem.Fix IE6 PNG Transparency
Install Xampp - Emulate your public_html (website) folder on Windows 7, so that you can then create/run MySQL Database, HTML and PHP Script commands (i.e. Blog, Forum, Password and File Operation scripts) on your computer. Ideal for programming and software (script) installations.Install Apache Server
Questionnaire Form (PHP Script) with Recaptcha. Example code with live questionnaire form given.Questionnaire Form

 

DESIGN

An introduction to website design layout, style, format and usability basics and technicals.Web Design Basics Intro
Which web browser(s) should you test your web pages with? Reasons why you should use.....Which Web Browser?

How To Create A PayPal Premier Account

A PayPal Premier Account Allows You To Sell Products And Accept Payments

If you are considering selling something Offline (i.e. Shoes) or Online (i.e. Music Downloads) using your website, and more specifically using one or more HTML/CSS coded web pages as your Shopping Cart, you will need to set up a Payment Merchant Account from a Payment Merchant such as PayPal. PayPal is one of the more successful, low rates, payment merchants around.



A Payment Merchant is a company, such as PayPal, that gives you the facility to carry out Online Bank Transactions (i.e. Withdrawals and Deposits) using your Payment Merchant Account. When your, paypal, payment merchant account has been set up (explained below) you can then use the paypal Button Creator to create BUY NOW and VIEW CART buttons for your product(s). Each button is actually a HTML Form that contains product information (description, price and currency) that is sent to the paypal shopping cart (basket) whenever a customer clicks on the button.

How  Does  It  Work?

PayPal works like this. A customer reads about your product on your website and likes what they see, and read, and so decide to click on the product's BUY NOW button. Doing so takes them to the paypal order (shopping cart) web page where they are presented, as a reminder, with the product's information again. When they are completely satisfied with the order (product information) they click on another button to continue to the actual payment web page.

The payment web page gives them two choices. Either pay by debit/credit card or pay using their paypal balance, in which case they would have to log-in to their existing paypal merchant account (paypal account). The beauty of a payment merchant account (paypal account) from your side is that you do not need to set up a proper shopping cart yourself and handle its received payments manually - PayPal takes care of this for you.

GETTING  STARTED

To set up a PayPal Account you first need to go to your local (country based) PayPal website, in this example to PayPal (UK), and then click on the SIGN UP button. If you go to directly to PayPal .com it will also advise you to go to your local paypal website.




Fig 1.0  Click on the SIGN UP button to continue

After clicking on the SIGN UP button (Fig 1.0 above) you are then asked what Account Type you would like to set up (below) - Personal, Premier or Business.

In this example, assuming you are not a business and just need an account for buying and selling purposes, a Premier Account should be adequate. You may need a business paypal account for selling purposes when using EBay, which is owned by PayPal. See the EBay website for more information. You can always upgrade a premier account to a business account.




Fig 1.1  Select your COUNTRY, if need be, before clicking on your preferred ACCOUNT TYPE

When you are ready select your Country from the COUNTRY drop-down menu, if need be, and then click on the GET STARTED button underneath the PREMIER Account Type to continue. Doing so will take you to the following Registration Form.




Fig 1.2  Fill out the Registration Form and then click on the AGREE AND CREATE ACCOUNT button

As you can see, the registration form is simple enough to fill out. One thing to note here though is that you should never enter the password belonging to your email address inside the PASSWORD edit box - The PASSWORD edit box is expecting you to enter a New Password that will be used with this PREMIER PayPal Account, once this PREMIER PayPal Account has has been created.

When you have filled out the Registration Form click on the AGREE AND CREATE ACCOUNT button to continue. This means you accept the Terms & Conditions (User Agreement) of the PREMIER PayPal Account as laid out by PayPal - Click on the registration form's USER AGREEMENT and PRIVACY POLICY links for more information.

The next window to appear asks you how you would like to pay for your purchases (products and/or services) - By BANK ACCOUNT, DEBIT CARD or CREDIT CARD. In this example click on the CONTINUE button underneath the PAY WITH MY BANK ACCOUNT Payment Method where you will then be asked to fill out your Bank Account details in order to set up a Direct Debit agreement.




Fig 1.3  Click on the CONTINUE button underneath the PAY WITH MY BANK ACCOUNT Payment Method

This next part needs extra special attention paid to it, so read everything on the paypal pages (screenshots) carefully; as well as what I am about to say. Otherwise you may get problems with paypal and/or with your bank or building society.

This next part asks you for your bank (or building society) details. THESE MUST BE PRECISELY AS WRITTEN AND/OR GIVEN BY YOUR BANK OR BUILDING SOCIETY. Precise bank (or building society) details meaning your Bank Name, Bank Branch (Location), Bank Account Type, Bank Sort Code and Bank Account Number.

Before filling out these details I strongly recommend you print the paypal pages first and then show them to your bank (or building society) and say I am setting up a PayPal Premier Account - What are the precise bank details I need to supply paypal?. They should then give you their precise bank details, which also contain your bank account details, in order for you to set up any paypal account.



Do not be flogged off with any old bank details. For example. I had a case myself, and when helping someone else, whereby we asked the same bank (on different occasions, in different circumstances) for the precise bank details for setting up a paypal account; only to be given the wrong Bank Branch and Bank Address details. This not only delayed things but it also caused confusion amongst their ill informed staff.

In the end I just used a different bank account and the person I was helping eventually got their correct bank details. So it pays to check you have the correct bank details in the first place rather than relying on your Bank Book or Cheque Book for bank details, as those bank details might not be the ones used by your bank (or building society) for processing paypal accounts.

When you have acquired the correct bank (or building society) details you should start filling out the paypal Bank Account form. It is in two parts. The first part requires your bank (or building society) account details and the second part requires the specific bank (or building society) branch details - The branch that processes PayPal Accounts.




Fig 1.4  Fill out this form with your Bank (or Building Society) Account details and then CONTINUE




Fig 1.5  Fill out the NAME AND FULL ADDRESS OF YOUR BANK OR BUILDING SOCIETY details and SUBMIT

After clicking on the CONTINUE button (Fig 1.4 above) you are then asked to fill out the NAME AND FULL ADDRESS OF YOUR BANK OR BUILDING SOCIETY (Fig 1.5 above). These are the important details I mention above. When you have filled out these details verify that they are 100% correct before clicking on the SUBMIT button, because making a mistake here can cost you a penalty charge by paypal if your account details turn out to be incorrect. If you realize they are incorrect click on the CANCEL button, but if you are sure they are 100% correct click on the SUBMIT button to continue.

If you do make the mistake of submitting incorrect bank details log-in to your PayPal Premier Account and delete the listed/pending bank (or building society) account straight away - Give PayPal a call, if need be, to explain your mistake. With my experiences of PayPal I found their phone operators to be very helpful, caring and understanding. You can always set up a bank (or building society) account, again, by logging into your PayPal Premier Account and going to the Profile section.




Fig 1.6  Wait 5 Days to be sure that the two small amounts of money have been deposited into your bank (or building society) account

Now that you have entered and verified your bank (or building society) details paypal will deposit two small amounts, of between 10 and 99 pence, into your bank (or building society) account. Read the above instructions. Basically, after 5 Working Days you go to your bank (or building society) and check your statement for the paypal deposits.

If all is well, remember those two small amounts (i.e. 10 and 44 pence) as you will need to know them later. In the meantime you need to confirm your email address, in order to activate your PayPal PREMIER Account, which can be done before or after clicking on the above CONTINUE button. In this example click on the CONTINUE button and then confirm your email address.

With the PayPal website still open, open up a new Internet Explorer and log-in to your email account. In your Inbox you should see an email from PayPal titled ACTIVATE YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT. If you cannot see it look in your Junk Email box, although it should be in your Inbox. There will be other emails from PayPal but click on the one titled ACTIVATE YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT first. From there, click on the LINK NOW link inside that email which will then ask you to enter your PayPal PREMIER Account password in order to activate your PayPal PREMIER Account (Fig 1.8 below).




Fig 1.7  Click on the LINK NOW link to continue




Fig 1.8  Enter your PayPal PREMIER Account password and then click on the CONFIRM button

When you log-in to your PayPal PREMIER Account for the first time you will be asked to provide two Security Answers to two Security Questions of your choosing, from the relevant Q/A 1 and Q/A 2 drop-down menus and edit boxes. These details are asked for when ever you forget your password so that your password can be reset.




Fig 1.9  Set up your password Security Questions and Answers and then click on the SUBMIT button

All you have to do now is wait 5 days for the two small amounts to be deposited into your bank (or building society) account. Once you know the two small amounts log-in to your PayPal PREMIER Account and click on the COMPLETE BANK SETUP link, in the TO DO List, in order for you to enter those two small amounts as digits (i.e. 10 and 44).

Once this process is complete you can then start paying for online goods (products/services), and accepting product payments, using your PayPal PREMIER Account. PayPal does not take the two small amounts back out of your bank (or building society) by the way, they leave it in there for you!!

If you are asked any answer generic questions about you and your income, depending on PayPal's bank setup security procedure at the time, just answer the questions as you see fit. One question for example might be about your Business Status, but if you are not a business simply state you are an Individual.



Every so often, for security reasons, PayPal change their bank setup procedure. Hence why I cannot do an exact replication of their final bank setup procedure here simply because I cannot be setting up many different PayPal Accounts and Bank Accounts just to keep this section up-to-date.

By that I mean; This section is currently up-to-date, and I monitor the basic setup of PayPal regularly enough to keep this section up-to-date, but the final bank setup procedure (as explained in the paragraph above Fig 1.10, onwards) could be changed by PayPal at any time - I cannot go into, or explain, that procedure any further here without setting up a proper bank account of course.




Create A Members Site
Create A PayPal Button
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