Free Credit Card Processing

Take a look at 3rd party credit card processing companies if you want the least expensive and easiest way to start selling your products or services on the Web. They are companies that accept credit card orders on your behalf without requiring you to have your own merchant account.

Free credit card processing services are excellent if you're just starting out. Instead of paying for expensive credit card processing software, a secure server, customer service fees, monthly gateway fees, minimum transaction fees, and the like, you'll simply pay a percentage of the sale price of each product. Some of 3rd party credit card processing companies can run an affiliate program for you. It'll help you in promoting your site.

A lot of free credit card processing services can be found all over the Net. The list below includes only those 3rd party credit card processing companies that have been in business quite a while, are established and most often mentioned on the Web...

PayPal

PayPal is one of the pioneers in the free credit card processing solutions, oferring a wide range of options and services. As a sister company of Ebay, it is a natural choice if you are going to conduct your business on this popular auction site.

Basic features:

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  Lower transaction fees than other 3rd party credit card processing companies.
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  60%-70% lower fraud loss rates than other services.
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  Paypal also provides you a shopping cart that you can easily place directly on your website.
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  About 100 million active PayPal buyers worldwide.

Payment to you is made into your bank account.

CCBill
This free credit card processing company only accepts customers who sell Web site content or services. It offers recurring billing and referral program.

Only issues checks.CCBill holds 5% of the total revenues for a period of 26 weeks.Payments every 7 days.

ClickBank

ClickBank accepts customers who offer digital products and services that are delivered entirely over the Internet itself (via Web pages, files, or email). Your products are promoted through their network of over 100,000 online affiliates. You select an affiliate commission percentage in advance.

Only issue checks. Charge $2.50 to process and send check.Withhold 10% of each check which is released after about 90 days.Payments twice per month.

ShareIt!

This 3rd party credit card processing company helps you sell software and shareware via the Internet.

You can choose between US Dollars, Euro and Pound Sterling for payment by bank transfer, check, or direct deposit in the USA.Fees for issuing monthly payments to you:Transfer to your account (bank transfer): $2 (Germany = free)Mailing a check: $5 (USA = free)Direct Deposit (USA only): free

CC Now

This credit card processor focuses on selling tangible merchandise that will be shipped to online shoppers.

They issue checks in US Dollars: $4.Direct Deposit (USA only): free.Wire Transfer: $40.Reserve Funds are used if your length of sales history with CC Now is less than 3 months and sales earnings exceed $1000 in one semi-monthly pay period (see Web site for more details).Payments twice per month (you can specify a payment threshold amount).

See Free Merchant Accounts for more information on the advantages and disadvantages of using 3rd party credit card processing companies.

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Web Design

What is the best Web site design?

In general, how important is Web design in building a successful high-potential Web site?

Not as important as most folks think.

 
Your site needs to be clean, simple, and well-structured. People use the Net to find information. The best Web site design includes informative content, simple layout, easy navigation and fast loading graphics. It allows users to search for and locate the information they desire in the quickest and most convenient manner possible.


On the other hand, your Web site design is a reflection of your business, the quality of your product. Web surfers looking for some information not only want the right info, they want it from the right source. So make sure that your site doesn't look like it was designed by a novice.


The following general website design tips will help make your site more professional...

Browsers

 

One of the first things about the professional Web site design is understanding that your site will be viewed on a variety of computer platforms and browsers. Mostly it doesn't matter, but occasionally it does. The platform issue is much less of a concern than the browser issue.


As to browsers, both the version of the software and the brand are essential. Different browsers display the same page in different ways (or sometimes don't display it at all). Older versions don't support all the new tag additions and modifications. They just ignore any tags and attributes they don't recognize.



Always check your Web design on at least the latest versions of the most popular browsers - Internet Explorer and Firefox. While no site looks identical on all monitors, browsers, and computers, you can design sites that look good on all, but only if you test the site on all.

Loading time

 

One of the most significant problems that faces Web designers is slow loading time, which often annoys users to the point where they give up and go to another site. So it is extremely important to design your pages to load as quickly as possible, which means keeping page sizes as low as possible.


Internet users are the least patient people in the world, and if your site is slow, they know they can get the information, products, or services they desire at another site.


Keep your graphics down to a reasonable size. For more information on using graphics, see Web Graphics   web page backgrounds  and


You can decrease the loading time of your Web site by using common images on your pages, because the images which have already appeared on a previous page will be loaded from browser caches, rather than from the server itself.


If you need to change images from page to page, try to use common elements from other pages. This Web design tactic is especially useful for title bars, which can be broken up into individual images. When a new page is loaded, the elements from the old page are loaded from the cache, leaving only the new elements to be loaded.

Consistency

 

 

When developing professional Web site design, consistency is the most important thing to keep in mind. Nothing is more unprofessional in Website design than a different colored background for every page.

Backgrounds, colors, fonts, navigation buttons all need to present your site visitor with a uniform appearance.
A consistent Web site not only lets users know where they are, but can also help build a "brand" so your site is recognizable.

Navigation

 

 

Regardless of the best Web site design or highly informative content, if your site isn't easily navigable, all your hard development work will be worthless.


Keep navigation simple, and make sure it's consistent from page to page. No matter where you place your menu bar, always include a small text menu at the bottom of every page. For more information, see Web Site Navigation. 

Fonts

If your site is straying from the standard fonts that everyone has installed on their computers (such as Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman) the viewer won't see your fonts as intended.


Your users' computers will display your site in their default fonts. So stick to standards. See Web Fonts for more information.

Resolution

Most of professional Web site designers have better systems than their audience has. The norm these days seems to be 1024x768 although there are still a small number of people using 640x480 or 800x600, mostly because they don't realize they have the ability to switch into a higher resolution.


If your page exceeds either of those numbers, the browser will display a scrollbar. If your page is more than the browser's width, a horizontal scrollbar will be displayed. If your page is more than the browser's height, a vertical scrollbar will be displayed.


People usually assume that most pages will have a vertical scrollbar, and are using it to scroll down pages. But many despise the horizontal scroll, and will often complain if they are forced to use it.


It's a good idea to design your entire page for 800x600, but keep the width of text within 640 pixels. People with older computers will still be able to read your content, even if some parts of the page require scrolling.

Keep looking

One way to the best Web site design is looking around the Web and learning from what you see. That doesn't mean copying, but instead, studying what others have done and understanding what works and what doesn't.

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There are tons of online resources helpful to professional Web site design. For example...


Realm Graphics
One-stop shop for Web development images: backgrounds, banners, bullets, buttons, icons, lines.


Web Page Design and Layout
Yahoo! Listing of popular Web design resources.
If you need help of a professional Web site designer visit...


Guru.com
Guru.com provides a useful service. It allows techies to post listings indicating their area of expertise, and rate of pay. Search for candidates to locate the "tech support" you need.

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 For more information on specific details of Web design, see also...

 

Web Page Design

How to make your pages logically organized and user-friendly.

Web Page Backgrounds

The basics, tricks, examples.

Web Fonts

How to use fonts more effectively in your Web design.

Web Site Navigation

Maps, navigation bars, frames, JavaScript, site search engines. 

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How to Increase Website Traffic: 7 steps (with pictures)

There are many creative ways to increase traffic to your website. Some will cost you money, and some won't. Below you'll find many legitimate ways (ranging from free to costly) to boost the number of visitors to your website. But if you don't have so much as a cent to spare, read  

How to Increase Website Traffic for Free.

How to Increase Website Traffic: 7 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow

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Web Hosting Tips 1

Web hosting is compulsory service for every website to mark their presence on world wide web. Out of so many options to choose from, selecting right web hosting package for your site can be a difficult task. This situation is due to cut throat competition among the service providers.

A web hosting site has the capability to provide you a space on its page, which links several web users or visitors directly to your website once they clicked on the link. You actually have to pay for such a service being offered by a web hosting site on a monthly basis.

Web hosting is a specialist business that involves the provision of computer space where people can pay to have their websites stored. As well as the basic storage of web pages, the web host has to enable your pages and files to be downloaded by visitors to your site.

When it comes to web hosting and choosing the right information for your website, you will have to make many choices. One of these includes your domain name. You may think that your domain name is not too important since you will hand it out to your customers, but the name is very significant.

Choosing a web host should not be like choosing paper, they are not all likewise, therefore what you must do in order to choose a web hosting company which is trustworthy and haven't had many complaints from old customers, it happens a lot when the internet sites get offline in reason of a increase on its traffic

If you want to host a site on a dedicate server then managed hosting is a best option. You can hire or take a server on lease so that no other client can use it. This website hosting solution is suitable for those companies or individuals who wants to have their systems with them, unlike collocation. Having system within your reach and limit is very beneficial but before going for this option you must look into some factors, which I am going to discuss below.

Managed Hosting effectively overcomes the IT infrastructure challenges and provides a healthy environment for IT applications. In today's rapidly changing business environment, many organizations are turning to a hosted, fully managed environment that custom suits their business needs. Managed hosting helps enhance the security, flexibility and reliability of your IT infrastructure and ensures that your IT systems perform at optimum levels.

Another important thing to think about in finding and comparing some web hosting plans is the technical service support. This is due to the fact that the technical support plays a very important role in troubleshooting as well as fixing your website whenever technical problems arise. Hence, you have to see to it to select a web hosting plan from a company which can assure you of a 24/7 technical service support for your website.

There are two host platforms from which to choose, Linux and Windows. Which you choose to use will be mostly based on what web design program and language you intend to use. Website languages, like PHP, Perl, and MySql will all work best with a Linux platform, while software like Visual Basic will only work on Windows platform.

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