Here are step by step instructions for setting up PayPal Website Payments Pro with your ECT (ECommerce Templates) online store. “Pro” allows you to accept credit cards directly in your online store without sending your customers through PayPal - it communicates with PayPal in the background.
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I’ve had several clients ask me how to resize images, and so I’ve compiled this list of free image resizer programs that are available for different platforms. If you have one you like to use, please let me know and I’ll be happy to add it to my list.
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If you’ve got a page in WebYep that’s got a large amount of content, you may want to help your visitors get quickly to the section they’re interested in. In order to do this, you need to add an “anchor” to the section you want them directed to, and you need to add a “link” to the anchor at the top of the page. This tutorial assumes you have WebYep installed and have a “Rich Text” element already configured on your page.
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WebYep is a great content management tool, but sometimes clients get unexpected results when they copy and paste content from other applications, like Word. (Other applications like WordPress Blogs behave the same way). If you’re composing in the WebYep window, you most likely won’t have any issues, but if you try to copy and paste content, like text, from other word processing applications, or even from your internet browser window, you might run into issues. This article assumes a bit of knowledge of HTML and it’s use of tags.
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I can’t tell you how happy I was the day that DreamHost, my favorite website hosting company, started selling SSL certificates. Especially since these SSL certificates were from Geotrust, a very reputable secure certificate provider. Here’s a quick tutorial that walks you through the process on how to purchase and configure the DreamHost / Geotrust SSL certificate. The tutorial assumes you already have your website hosted with DreamHost.
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Adding a new category to your ECT online store is easy to accomplish. This video tutorial will show you how.
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Adding an online store to your website can dramatically increase sales, but it’s important that you understand HOW to run your online store BEFORE you select which one to purchase. This is a tour inside the store owner administrative area of the eCommerceTemplates (ECT) store, my favorite online store software application.
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If you’re shopping for an online store, it’s important to become familiar with the particular online store application before you make your purchase decision. Online stores vary significantly, and I’ve made this video tutorial to give you a quick overview of my favorite online store: eCommerceTemplates (or “ECT”).
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If you only need to sell a few items from your website or collect different sums of money (like I do on my payment page) you could use a PayPal Buy Now Button to accomplish this. You’ll need to have already set up a PayPal Business/Merchant Account before watching this tutorial video.
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This video shows you how to add a product to your eCommerce Templates (ECT) online store. It assumes that you already have categories set up. If you don’t have categories set up, please watch that video first before you try to upload products, because you will want to put them into categories.

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This article contains instructions on how to convert a Blogger Blog into a WordPress Blog. It assumes that you have a Blogger account that uses Gmail, and that you already have WordPress fully installed on your own domain. It also assumes that you know how to use a .htaccess file accomplish page to page redirection. (If this sounds like gibberish and you would like me to do the conversion for you, please contact me.)

Why consider converting? You know all that wonderful content you’re writting on Blogger? If you have a blogger subdomain (ie. yourname.blogspot.com), and you have your own website, that content is not benefiting your website one bit!

Moving to WordPress that’s fully integrated with your website is a great way to get credit for that content, because the content lives on YOUR domain, not Blogspot. While Blogger does have a FTP publishing capability, in my experience it’s super slow for large blogs, and WordPress is a much more effective solution - easier to customize and jam packed with plugins that make it easy to super-charge your blog.
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Perhaps you like to write your blog articles in Word or received articles from other that are in Word. You have been simply copy and pasting from Word into WordPress, and wondering why the font and style of text doesn’t match some of your other blog articles.
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To optimize your blog for search engines (search engine optimization or SEO), you should understand how much of an impact individual post titles can have on your post’s rankings, and how to manipulate post slugs. Titles and slugs?!
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Maybe you’ve noticed the orange icon at the top of my blog’s URL or on this page, and you’re wondering what the heck is it.

Or maybe you’ve heard others talking about RSS feeds and felt left out.

Or maybe you just are looking for a way learn about ways to improve your small business website but don’t have time to go around searching for information. Using RSS is a great way to have information that’s customized to your tastes and interests, come right to you - just like a waiter will bring you what your ordered from the menu.
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To add an image to a WordPress Blog Article or Post, just watch this video.
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ECT (ECommerceTemplates) just came out with a new version of their online store and they’ve included a great image uploader function. This type of function used to be available only as an after-market modification. As of now, the 5.5 manual doesn’t include instructions on how to use this new 5.5 image uploader function, and so I’ve made a video tutorial to help folks understand and use this new feature. Enjoy!
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The ECT (ECommerceTemplates) online store has a nice administration area that allows store owners to manage every aspect of their stores. Here’s just one quick tutorial on how to view orders in your ECT online store.
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I made this diagram and explanation to help clients help me set up their website pages that use Web Yep, my favorite content management tool. Web Yep is good, because clients can’t inadvertently damage their websites. This is because Web Yep keeps clients in specified areas that are called “Elements”. If you know HTML, you can use the Web Yep editor to create HTML code. But if you don’t know HTML, Web Yep will need to be configured as described below:
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This video tutorial takes you through the basics looking at your website statistics using Web-Stat, my favorite website traffic tracking service. If you want to sign up for Web-Stat, click here, they have a 30 day free trial. Enjoy the video!

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You’ve selected DreamHost as your hosting company and now you need to configure Outlook Express to read your email from your website. Here are the necessary 5 steps to configure Outlook. If you need to configure Outlook Express, please read this article on how to set up Outlook Express.
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