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Accepting credit cards through a reseller service

Looking for a way to accept credit card transactions online but can’t meet your bank’s requirements for a Merchant Account? One of the many ecommerce services that proliferate on the Net may be the answer to your problems.

Resellers handle the transactions on your behalf, then issue you payment for sales according to a pre-arranged schedule. You do not need a secure line, since the actual transaction occurs on their site, not on yours. Reseller services are easier to arrange than is a merchant account through the bank, and although you will probably be asked to pay a lump sum at startup, it will be much less than a bank would require.

Getting and Keeping People’s Attention at Your Site

A new discovery says that people are born to respond to information a certain way. It also indicates that when we use our in-born or natural style to process information, we relax and feel good. The same research also indicates that 92% of thousands tested have changed that style to one they think works better. The change causes stress. So 92% of the viewers of your site are stressed. Because people often visit your site and click off almost instantly, you face the problem of getting their attention and keeping it long enough to persuade them to buy

Creating Web Page Transitions

Note: These transitions are built for IE 4.0 and above.

Do you want to put a little spice in the transition of your pages like the boxing in or dissolve effect? I do…but I also agree with my housemate Brooks, who doesn’t like using the transitions too much. Why? Well, every time someone hits the “back” button, they have to wait for the transition to occur before they can read your page. When this is an impatient world like the Internet is…it gets old quickly. However, if you are creative and use the transitions sparingly or the “random” effect, you should be able to create web page(s) that have a “techy” feel among the myriad of static pages.

The Truth about Online Content: It’s Time for Writers to Take Back the Web

Google.com, one of the web’s hottest search engines, has indexed over 1,346,966,000 web pages to date. The World Wide Web is officially gigantic, with hundreds of thousands of corporate, small business, and ecommerce websites vying for something more than just the “eyeballs” that web analysts hailed in the 1990’s. In order to create success, websites are now searching for a steady, interactive audience. Why aren’t they succeeding? Could it STILL have something to do with the content?

Pop-Up Windows

I’m inclined to say “…for those of you that are not familiar with Pop-Up windows…” and then explain what they are. If you don’t already know what a Pop-Up window is, then this newsletter is probably your first experience with the Internet. Pop-Up Windows are everywhere and are more often than not, a major announce akin to Spam. There are however, many legitimate uses for Pop-Up windows. For instance, when you wish to display additional or ancillary information to the current topic.

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