=> 1. News From the Net => 2. Feature Article-"PayPal Offers New Merchant Tools" => 3. Webmaster Resources => 4. Promotional Resources => 5. Other Ezines of Interest => 6. Just for Fun or Useful => 7.E Books and Things of Interest to Publishers => 8. Freeware and Shareware to Download => 9.Subscribe/Remove Information *************************************** Hi Gang, Happy Saturday! It's a lazy, rainy day here in Northeast Ohio. After days of beautiful summer like weather the wetness and chill have returned. Funny thing about living in Ohio, you get use to bad weather and never get your hopes up for too much. That way you're not disappointed. The rain and gray skies are making the boys and me lazy. We're lying in bed watching TV with my laptop today. Well, maybe I'm watching TV, and their just sleeping. They do a lot of that. How much do dogs need to sleep? It's nuts. They seem to sleep their life away but what else can they do. Do they have bills to pay, errands to run, a job to go to. What pressures do they have? My next life I think I'm coming back as a dog it looks easier then this human form. I was thinking about how much the Net has changed in the past year. When I started over 6 years ago things were so much different. Looking back they were friendlier and the climate was easier to do business in. Now we've got lawyers, and sp.m laws, and people trying to take advantage of people. My personal opinion is it sucks. That's putting it bluntly. It hasn't changed for the better. Don't get me wrong I still think the Net is a great place to do business and reach out to people, but the warmth has been replaced with rules and regulations. Whoever gave a lawyer a modem should be smacked <LOL> Don't forget to bookmark the Blog. You'll want to pay an occasional visit for extra goodies I find. http://merlesworld.blogspot.com/ I'd love to hear your comments over at our discussion board. This week's winner for a free ad is...JSTEVENPIERCE49 For your own chance to win fill in the survey. You'll find the link at the very bottom of this ezine. A winner is pulled twice a month. Enter now. Thanks for joining me, let's get to the good stuff. If you have any comments you can send them to Me. Merle http://www.MerlesWorld.com http://www.EzineAdAuction.com http://www.MCPromotions.com

Google Announces Image Ads
https://www.google.com/adsense/new

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California Legislature Considers Fraudulent-Sp.m Bill
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=27686

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Judge Ties AntiSpa.mers Hands
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-5210518.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop

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Google Starts Their Own Blog
http://www.google.com/googleblog/

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Blogger Get's a Facelift
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"PayPal Offers New Merchant Tools"

By Merle http://MCPromotionsPress.com

PayPal is a popular choice for payment proc-
essing for many online business owners. Payments
are fast, fees low and the money shows up in your
account instantly. What else could an online business
owner ask for?

Paypal is continually making strides to improve
their service. A recent change allows a buyer to
make a purchase without having to open their own
Paypal account first. If you haven't been paying
attention lately, they've also implemented some
other new changes that you're really going to
love.

Let's review:

1) Custom Payment Pages: Premier and
business account holders can now customize their
Paypal payment pages so they match the look of
their websites. This helps with the transition from
your website to Paypal's, so your customers enjoy
a more seamless shopping experience.

You can choose custom colors and add images. For
example, placing your logo at the top of your
payment page. Images can be up to 750X90 pixels
high. You can create up to three different page
styles and store them for later use. When you
designate a primary page style, it will be applied
to all of your payment pages unless you specify
otherwise. To change page styles when creating
new "buy now" buttons or shopping cart buttons,
just select "add more options" on the button
creation pages and select the page style you'd
like to use.

To set up your custom payment pages from your
Account Overview page, click on the Profile tab,
then the "Custom Payment Pages" link under "Selling
Preferences."

2) Auto Return: Now after a buyer completes a
payment to you they can be returned to your site
immediately. This is a great new feature, as you
no longer lose the visitor after they make payment.
To set up auto return, click the Profile tab,
then the "Website Payment Preferences" link.
You'll need to set up a personalized "thank you"
page to send your Web guests to and you'll need
to include certain wording, such as thanking your
visitors for their payments and telling them they
will be hearing from you by email.

3) Shipping with U.S. Postal Service: If you ship
products, you'll really like this service. Paypal
has teamed up with the U.S. Post Office and UPS
to provide shipping services from within your
Paypal account. You can calculate shipping costs,
purchase and print shipping labels and even track
your shipments online.

Paypal is continually working to add new features
and really is the easiest way for a website owner
to collect payments. Two other things worth
mentioning:

1. Paypal's ATM/Debit card, which allows you to access
your funds from any bank ATM machine or shop at a
store using your card just like a Mastercard with
the funds coming directly from your account. I love
my PayPal credit card as it makes it so handy to
access my funds from anywhere I might be.

2. If you use Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Express
there's a "payment wizard" software you can download
that allows you to add Paypal payment buttons directly
inside your emails. Thus the buyer can click on the
link in your message and complete the transaction via
Paypal's website.

For a complete merchant overview, download their report
in PDF format http://tinyurl.com/yv93y

If you run an online business and haven't looked into
Paypal, you're missing out on a powerful segment of
buyers in the Internet community. If you've been using
Paypal for years but haven't noticed these new tools,
you'll be glad you did.

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FeedSweep

Want to put news feeds on your website? This is a
great way to keep your content fresh with no work
on your end."FeedSweep uses industry-standard Java
Script to draw news feed information on to web sites,
so it is compatible with all the popular web browsers.
It is also clearly the best solution for displaying
news feeds on web sites because it can read every
popular format, and provides the best customization
of any service like it. Plus, it's free."

http://www.howdev.com/services/feedsweep/

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CSS Tutorial

The WillMaster has put together a nice little tutorial
on using Cascading Style Sheets. By implementing
style sheets you can contain all of your site's formatting
options from one text file.

http://tinyurl.com/37q4l

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Useful Tips
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Jazz Up Your Entrance
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Ever go to a webpage and have the page do something
really cool as it loads like slide in from the right
or left? These are called Transition Effects and are
easy to do on your own pages.

Add this meta tag to your Head section:

content="revealTrans(Duration=5,Transition=16)">

See the number after transition= above of 16? To try
other effects use numbers from 0 to 23- You'll see all
kinds of cool things like shrinking circles, dissolving
screens, growing circles and more.

This is a simple way to jazz up your pages.

Web Log Expert

"WebLog Expert Lite is a free log analyzer, light-weight
version of WebLog Expert. It allows you to quickly and
easily analyze your log files and get information about
your site's visitors: activity statistics, what files
visitors accessed, information about referring pages,
search engines, browsers, operating systems, and more."

http://www.weblogexpert.com/lite.htm

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Paper Toys

Call me crazy but I had hours of fun at this site.
You can create all kinds of cool paper crafts like
boxes, and cards, and wagons. Make sure you have
some heavier weight paper on hand before printing
anything out. Light cardboard stock would be even
better if you have it. All files are shown in PDF
in full rich color, just print, cut and glue. I
made a few and gave them to people at work for
their desktops and they absolutely loved them.

http://www.thetoymaker.com/2Toys.html

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Phishing and Email Scams

"Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' e-mails and fraudulent
websites designed to fool recipients into divulging
personal financial data such as credit card numbers,
account usernames and passwords,social security
numbers, etc. " This site reveals the latest scams
and even has submission process where you can submit
a phishing attempt.

http://www.antiphishing.org/

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Bug Me Not

This site was created for those paranoid people who
might be afraid to register themselves at free websites
and still want to gain access. Just type in the url
and this site will come back with user name and
password you can use to access the site and if
they don't have it in their database you can ask
them to add it. Interesting concept.

http://bugmenot.com/

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"Through the end of May 2004, you can download a free
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Trusty Files

Free file sharing software allows you to search multiple
networks. Download from multiple sources on the public
P2P network or share files with other public networks.
No spyware, safe to use.

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A full featured text editor for experts or newbies
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