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…)

Blog install .htaccess

I’m so happy to have created an htaccess file and allowed for these lovely permalinks!    It won’t work without it … !  The htaccess file must be uploaded to the root level of the site and the permissions must be set so that wordpress can modify the file.

Although it is easy to to the basic installation, there are a lot of finishing details which take it from good to PRO :)   Using Permalinks