Paypal for most of us

There are ways to spend money monthly with a Paypal account, but most of you don’t need to. Most of my clients will be just fine using “Website Payments Standardand NOT the $30/month PRO version.

With Standard you can

  • Send Invoices
  • Receive payments
  • Have a shopping cart
  • Etc.

So instead of $30/month PLUS the transaction fee you have a FREE account with ONLY the transaction fee of 1.9% – 2.9% + $0.30 USD (as of November 2009). Check out the different accounts here for yourself:   paypal.com–profile-comparison

Crestone Creations is happy to act as your representative and get your PayPal account going, or you can set it up on your own and we’ll just go in once it’s set up to create the code needed for your web site buttons & other professional customizations (like your logo on the checkout page, etc.).  (you can change your password once we’re done).

Save yourself $$ – do these steps on your own: (more…)

Blog This

Why Blog? > How Blog? > Get Going!

Why Blog?

There have been numerous well written articles which are trying to pound this thought into your business head – get a blog.  So I’m not going to re-babble what has been said in great, glorious detail – go read it:   Here is the primer – the 2008 version of an article first written in 2005  http://bit.ly/1JwiST which has now grown into a blog:  http://bit.ly/16l7FH

But let me get to the point of / summarize Why –     (more…)

Font Management on Snow Leopard

Today has been a most incredible day of learning about fonts, specifically, font management in the context of Snow Leopard.

Once upon a time, I thought it was cool to have fonts – so I gobbled them all up – every one that came my way and kept them on my computer. Not wanting to mix them with system fonts, user fonts, I put these guys in separate font folders. I once even had special software for font management. Then, as OSX developed, a new thing came along – Font Book. Good bye 3rd party software and hello font book. Well, somewhere along the way I changed computers, maybe once or twice. Moved all my fonts from here to there, and now, some 10 years along the road, I have found that my fonts have multiplied! (more…)