60 Plus Association
ABC
Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)
American Bankers Association (ABA)
American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Americans for Tax Reform
Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies
Association of Talent Agents (ATA)
Beachbody, LLC
BMI
BMG Chrysalis
Building and Construction Trades Department
Capitol Records Nashville
CBS
Cengage Learning
Christian Music Trade Association
Church Music Publishers’ Association
Coalition Against Online Video Piracy (CAOVP)
Comcast/NBCUniversal
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
Congressional Fire Services Institute
Copyhype
Copyright Alliance
Coty, Inc.
Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB)
Council of State Governments
Country Music Association
Country Music Television
Creative America
Deluxe
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc.
Elsevier
EMI Christian Music Group
EMI Music Publishing
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
ESPN
Estée Lauder Companies
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)
Gospel Music Association
Graphic Artists Guild
Hachette Book Group
HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Inc.
Hyperion
Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)
International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE)
International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
International Union of Police Associations
L’Oreal
Lost Highway Records
Macmillan
Major County Sheriffs
Major League Baseball
Majority City Chiefs
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
MasterCard Worldwide
MCA Records
McGraw-Hill Education
Mercury Nashville
Minor League Baseball (MiLB)
Minority Media & Telecom Council (MMTC)
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
Moving Picture Technicians
MPA – The Association of Magazine Media
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA)
National Center for Victims of Crime
National Crime Justice Association
National District Attorneys Association
National Domestic Preparedness Coalition
National Football League
National Governors Association, Economic Development and Commerce Committee
National League of Cities
National Narcotics Offers’ Associations’ Coalition
National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA)
National Songwriters Association
National Troopers Coalition
News Corporation
Pearson Education
Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Pfizer, Inc.
Provident Music Group
Random House
Raulet Property Partners
Republic Nashville
Revlon
Scholastic, Inc.
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Showdog Universal Music
Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Nashville
State International Development Organization (SIDO)
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)
The Perseus Books Groups
The United States Conference of Mayors
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner
True Religion Brand Jeans
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
UMG Publishing Group Nashville
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States Olympic Committee
United States Tennis Association
Universal Music
Universal Music Publishing Group
Viacom
Visa Inc.
W.W. Norton & Company
Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, L.P.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Nashville
Wolters Kluewer Health
Word Entertainment

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Paypal: Internet Payments Made Easy

When you want to make or accept payment online, the first and the most secured option that comes to mind is Paypal. It is an American-based global e-commerce company allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders. Paypal helps to send payments securely online using a credit card or bank account.

• PayPal Payment is traceable. You can track the status of your payment or your PayPal account.

• Payment is convenient and immediate. You pay right from the listing page and your payment is deposited directly into the seller’s account.

• You don’t have to use a credit card. You can transfer money directly from your bank account.

• If you use a credit card, sellers don’t see your card number. It’s safely encrypted through PayPal’s server to help minimize any risk of unauthorized use.

• On eligible transactions you’re covered by PayPal Buyer Protection for up to the full purchase price of your item, plus original shipping charges.

If you run into trouble with a transaction, it is best to try contacting and communicating directly with your seller before you does anything else. When you use PayPal to pay for items you buy, you can also turn to the PayPal Buyer Protection and PayPal Resolution Center for help.

PayPal Buyer Protection

If you don’t receive your item, or the item is significantly different from its description in the seller’s listing, PayPal Buyer Protection covers eligible transactions for up to the full purchase price plus original shipping charges. Some purchases are not eligible for this program, including vehicles in the Motors category, capital equipment in the Business & Industrial category, and Real Estate.

PayPal Resolution Center

If you paid for your item with PayPal but didn’t receive your item or if the item is significantly different from its description in the seller’s listing. You can open a case in the PayPal Resolution Center. This is the first step in filing a claim for coverage under PayPal’s Buyer Protection program.

PayPal PayFlow

PayPal offers an interesting payment gateway that is almost like many traditional gateways. Indeed, the pricing on PayFlow is much like what you would find with traditional payment gateways:

• Setup fee: Between $179 and $249.
• Monthly fee: Between $19.95 and 59.95
• Transaction fee: 10 cents

Indeed, the pricing is so similar to other payment gateways that the only real savings comes with the transaction fee, which is always a flat fee, without a percentage of the sale. However, unlike many payment gateways, PayFlow does offer a virtual terminal included in the price for orders taken by mail, fax or phone.

PayPal Express

Express Checkout allows your customers to complete transactions in very few steps. It lets them use shipping and billing information stored securely at PayPal to check out, so they don’t have to re-enter it on your site.

How it works.

1. After selecting products to purchase, your customers click Checkout with PayPal on your website.
2. They are transferred to PayPal – where they select their payment method, as well as the correct shipping and billing address , then are returned to your website to complete their purchases.
3. PayPal automatically gives you the shipping address, email, and other customer information needed to fulfill your order.

With Express Checkout, your buyers finish their orders on your website, not PayPal’s, so you can:

• Get real-time notification of successful payments
• Automate your internal business processes.
• Ensure buyers make it to your final confirmation page
• Be notified that the buyer’s address is confirmed, and ensure you’re eligible for coverage under PayPal’s Seller Protection Policy.

PayPal Direct payment:

Direct Payment offers direct credit card payment processing capability through PayPal. For credit card transactions, customers stay on your website as PayPal processes the payment in the background.

By integrating Direct Payment with Express Checkout, as part of the Website Payments Pro solution, you can accept all major payment types, including PayPal, while working with a single provider that processes and manages all your online payments.

Direct Payment is:

Customizable

• Direct Payment lets you design and host your own checkout pages
• You keep your customers on your site instead of having them pay on PayPal; PayPal remains invisible
• PayPal authorizes transactions in a real-time process

Easy to implement

• Direct Payment is already integrated with many leading shopping carts
• The built is using the Name-Value Pair infrastructure, an industry standard that utilizes web services
• PayPal’s SDK toolkit lets you easily integrate the PayPal into your website

Secure

• Transactions are sent over the internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
• Direct Payment lets you flag potentially fraudulent transactions, and provides you with industry-standard AVS and CVV2 responses for each transaction
• You use the certificate, provided by PayPal, to make calls to a secure connection.

Benefits:

• It is Private-PayPal does not reveal your financial information to sellers.

• It is Global-PayPal is accepted worldwide, and can be used to make payments locally or internationally.

• It is Easy-Send money to anyone in just a few clicks.

• It is Trusted-Industry-leading fraud prevention keeps you safe and secure.

• It is Cost-Effective-It is free to send money, and PayPal payfolw is affordable for businesses of all sizes.

There’s a few ways you can go about using your aged domain to pass along SEO value to your new site.

1. Lazy.. If you want to just do the work once and worry about it minimally, I would suggest a landing page. An SEO-rich one page site with a lot of relevant, properly formatted, well written content linking back to your new website.

Target this page for some niche keyword that is relevant to your main website’s topic.. For example, if your site is about chocolate bars, target your landing page for a relevant keyword with little competition, such as “world’s most delicious chocolate”. This is most likely a pretty easy keyword to be ranking for, and link that site back to your main site. Poof. You have a site that is well ranked for a relevant topic referencing your website. Powerful. Do this for 2-3 keywords and build as many of them as you can stand to.

BUT. Do not just leave the content there to rot away. Practice (or hire somebody) writing good SEO content and update that landing page ever so slightly regularly. This will keep Google coming back regularly checking for new content and keep them from potentially devaluing your content because it’s stale. Google loves new stuff to read and that’s how you keep them happy.

2. Blog. Blogging regularly ensures new content for Google. If you get good at writing good SEO copy and you can do it 1-2 times per week or even 1 time every 2 weeks, Google will love it. This has multiple advantages over a landing page; first it allows you to cover an array of topic and build on as many relevant keywords as you can stand to (the main advantage to landing pages, is that managing too many blogs can take longer than your full time work). It also opens the door for social marketing, if people enjoy your posts, they may +1 it, Facebook, Twitter, etc about it and this just builds on the website’s (and even that specific page’s) link authority. This allows you to potentially rank your main site for whatever keywords you want to.

There’s several other options, but you get the gist of it. There’s a couple of things to remember for whatever you do.

1. The links to your aged site. Your links tell Google what OTHERS think your site is relevant to. If you have 100 links that say you’re an industrial supply company, that’s probably what Google’s going to file you under and it’s going to make it a bit harder to rank it for something completely unrelated like “world’s best chocolate”. So you’re going to want to build on that site’s links (you’re going to want to either way) and get Google looking at its topic as being a bit more relevant. The existing backlinks are a great bonus, though.

2. No matter what, you’re not going to get away with not coming up with good quality SEO content. Google is going to love whichever site has the most, the most updated, the most recent and the most well written content. A landing page can outrank an old, stale, irrelevant blog with horrible content. There’s a trillion of those on the internet.

3. If you can get another host, that will make it even better. Google looks at everything about your backlinks, including where they come from as far as where that website’s server is located, it’s IP address and other websites on that IP address. It’s worth the $4/month to host your old domains elsewhere, get them different IPs on different servers from a different companies. If Google notices all of your backlinks are coming from 1 server on 1 IP with the same company, network, nameservers and everything.. They can devalue your backlinks. Google wants OTHER people linking to you. Not you linking to yourself.

There’s several things you can do with aged domains. These are just the methods that I would personally use. Now how you come up with the content, how you entice people to socialize your pages.. That’s where your creativity comes in and you ponder that endless question, “what is this blog going to be about.”

REMEMBER TO DO ALL OF THE ON-SITE SEO FOR YOUR AGED DOMAIN! YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK 100X HARDER ON CONTENT, LINKS AND SOCIAL MARKETING IF YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT ITSELF OPTIMIZED FOR THE KEYWORDS YOUR CONTENT, LINKS AND SOCIAL MARKETING ARE TRYING TO RANK IT FOR!

SEO Friendly Url

First of all what is a friendly URL? Simple put it is a url that is easy for the user to remember. Think what is easier to remember www.blake.com/resume or www.blake.com/?filetoget=resume.doc. If its easier to remember then its easier to link too. Google and other search engines know this I believe that is the primary reason they put weight to it, not because the spider cares, but because they knows its easier on the user.

There are actually a couple of different ways to create friendly URLS on your site. A lot of it depends on if its a old existing site you are trying to “work” friendly urls back into the code base or a new site. If its a new site much more than likely this is a moot point since friendly URLS will more than likely already be incorporated, but you will be surprised how many sites out there still use something along the lines of www.test.com/?productid=29.

Different way to create friendly urls

Lets say you have a new site www.test.com and a directory called “foo” sitting in the root the URL becomes “www.test.com/foo/”. This is called a static structure but the URL iswhat I would call friendly to the user. You could conceivable have a 1000 directories on your site each with an index file and a nice pretty URL. I certainly wouldn’t recommend this in the long run it would a lot more hassle than its worth.

The other option and probably most popular option is to have a site that is database driven and uses PHP or another scripting language to create dynamic URLS. “Way back when” the standard for this was something along the lines “www.test.com/?productid=10&categoryid=3″ this would give you the product ‘number 10 in category 3 from the database. This isn’t what we are looking for. Ideally since its database driven you can create the URLS to “appear friendly” without the directory structure. Lets take the example we used earlier “www.test.com/foo/”. To create this structure you would simply need to associate “foo” with the page in the database. When the URL comes in break off the root URL and process what is leftover with whatever logic the site dictates.

PHP example of Friendly SEO urls

The code below is assuming a incoming URL like www.blake.com/test/?q=idontcatre.It gets the request URL which would be “test/q=idontcare” and chops off the “/q=idontcare”. Then uses “test’ to look up the appropriate page in the database and display.

$arr = explode(“?”,$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$request = $arr[0]; //chop off query parameter
$request = trim($request,’/');
$sql = “select page from categories where PageUrl = ‘” . $url . “‘”;
$qid = $DB->query($sql);
$row= $DB->fetchRow($qid);
echo $row['page'];

Any thoughts? What did I miss? I did make a mistake once so it is possible Any questions ask and I shall answer

Dont get threads confused with processes. When you open a multiple browser tabs even though it shows up as one process, each tab has its own memory space Every wonder why the computer gets slower as you open multiple tabs its as simple as that.

There is one glimmer of hope. Chrome is supposedly multi-threaded not sure havnet tested it. If anyone can confirm leave a comment.

Referral leads are more likely to be interested in your services. They are more likely to believe in what you are selling. And they are more likely to stick with you — even if you botch the sales pitch. In short, referral leads are ready to buy.

Oh, and one more thing — referral business is often free. And that’s a big deal for freelancers like yourself (I’m guessing you don’t have a marketing budget like Apple).

So if referral business is the Holy Grail for freelancers, why do so few freelancer know how to get more referrals? How do you ask for referrals? When do you ask for them? Are there actions you can take to make it easier to get them?

I’ve searched the Internet high and low and discovered 12 brilliant articles that answer those questions and much more. Browse the selection below and start learning how to get more referrals.

How to get more referrals (the full list)

While some articles provide similar advice, each piece has at least one unique tip hidden inside. Check out all 12 and build a referral strategy that can explode your business.

1. The Freelancer’s Guide to Increasing Referral Business

This FreelanceSwitch article starts things off by covering a few reasons why referrals are so great and then gets into 12 solid tips and tactics that you can use to improve the amount of referrals in your freelance business. Two of the gems: asking for client feedback to determine your area of expertise and building a competitive advantage over the rest of the market.

2. Get More Referrals by Asking

This article flips the typical referral script on it’s head and states, “Give and You Shall Receive.” Read more to learn how to make giving a habit and generating referrals a frequent event.

3. How to Get More Referrals & Find Strategic Business Partners with John Jantsch

This 30 minute web show is run by HubSpot and they interview the author of Referral Engine, John Jantsch. John shares all sorts of information about generating referrals for your business in this excellent interview. Two of my favorites include the number one reason why businesses get referrals and the strategy to use to discover what makes your business remarkable and will get people talking.

4. How to Ask for Referrals and Get More Clients

This article is all about how to ask for referrals. It covers real scripts that you can reuse for your freelance business and put into practice today. This article also comes with a list of tips and suggestions to keep in mind when you get ready to ask for a referral.

5. How to get referrals

This throwback article is a hidden gem in Seth Godin’s archive. As only Seth can, he reminds us that referrals aren’t really about our business, but about the customer. Check it out and discover his sage advice on how to make referrals about the only person who matters: the client.

6. How to Get More Referrals

This article covers a crucial aspect of generating freelance referrals: how to get more referrals by taking control of the process and developing a sustainable referral system.

7. How a freelance marketer built her business with referrals

Gail Keith is a successful freelance marketer who left the corporate world almost a decade ago. In this story, she shares how she built her freelance business from the ground up with referrals. You’ll also find 3 specific techniques that you can use to increase the number of referrals you get.

8. How to finesse 156% more referrals

This down-to-earth article covers the typical process of asking for a referral. However, it also covers a not-so-typical — but oh so critical — suggestion of thanking the referrer.

9. How to Ask for a Referral Without Sounding Like a Jerk

This article shares a brief story of a brilliant freelancer who lost his chance for a referral and then shows you what you can do to prevent the same fate happening to you. Don’t miss this short read on how to get more referrals.

10. Attn Freelance Writers: How to Get More Work from Existing Clients

This article is targeted towards freelance writers, but many of the principles will be useful for all freelancers. If you’re interested in learning how to get more business from your existing clients, then this article is for you.

11. 5 Keys to Building Referral Business

This article focuses on web designers and developers, but once again, the principles are sound advice for all freelancers. This piece also raises good points about the ease of contact that you should provide if you want people to refer your work. There are also a few decent points in the comments of this article that highlight the areas freelancers are really struggling with.

12. 15 Tips for Getting Client Referrals to Grow Your Freelance Business

This article from American Writers and Artists, Inc. is filled with 15 tips to help you create a strategy that can generate a stream of referrals in your freelance business. The first tip might be the most important: set a referral goal for each month. If you make referrals a priority, then you’ll discover how to get more referrals much more quickly.

What about you?

What’s your best referral strategy? Do you struggle getting referrals for your freelance business? Tell us in the comments below. Maybe we can help each other out.

FROM FREELANCE SWITCH

We’ve put together our favorite 58 tutorial hubs and we want to share them with you. We chose these resources because they have great information, come from authoritative sources, and offer a range of tutorials. So check them out and start learning!

Programming Languages

1. Boogie Jack: This site’s tag line is “HTML and CSS Explained in Plain English,” and that’s exactly what you’ll get at Boogie Jack. The tutorials homepage shows you everything you can learn, and it’s quite a lot. It also has some great resources like an HTML Tags Chart and HTML FAQs.

2. EchoEcho: This site breaks down its tutorials into three categories—Page Building (HTML, JavaScript, etc.), Component Building (Flash, graphics programs, etc.), and Server Programming (PERL, PHP, etc.).

3. How-to-build-websites: This site breaks down web building into eight sections, then walks you through them. This site is nice because it starts by explaining basic concepts in words, then goes into the details with advanced tutorials.

4. HTML: An Interactive Tutorial: This site is completely devoted to learning HTML. This tutorial is great because it is extremely detailed and provides an input box for you to test out your new skills on every page: just type out your code, hit Enter, and the site instantly generates a webpage using your code.

5. HTML Goodies: This site focuses on HTML, providing more than eight sections of tutorials just on this subject. The site also includes a handful of tutorials that go “Beyond HTML,” like CSS, Javascript, and XML. The tutorials can all be found in the left sidebar.

6. Iron Spider: This hub will teach you everything you need to know to get started building a web page. This site is nice because it has two ways to explore the site, as a beginner or as an advanced user, which enhances your experience. It also has some nice resources listed in the left sidebar.

7. Quackit: This tutorial hub covers all of the basics of web building. The site is broken into six sections—HTML, CSS & Design, Scripting, Database, Website Hosting, and XML.

8. SmartWebby: This hub offers tutorials on HTML, CSS, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, Web Promotion, and more. The site also offers software reviews and other useful information.

9. Tuturialized: This site focuses on Photoshop and Flash tutorials, but it has tutorials for all things web-building, like CSS, HTML, Java, Ruby on Rails, and more. All of the tutorials have ratings, hits, comments, and votes.

10. W3Schools: This is the best hub out there for learning how to build web pages. It has tutorials for everything you need—HTML, CSS, Browser Scripts, Multimedia, Hosting, etc.—and the tutorials are comprehensive and easy to follow.

11. Web Design Library: The self-dubbed “One-stop Web Design Resource,” this site offers user-submitted tutorials on HTML, CSS, Photoshop, 3D Graphics, and more. Each of the tutorials is rated and there are also editor’s picks.

12. Web Developers Notes: This is another great hub that provides tutorials on HTML, JavaScript, SQL, and Flash.

13. Web Development Tutorials: This site has four sections of tutorials—(X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. The site design is simple, but if you just want information without many distractions, this is a good choice.

14. Your HTML Source: This hub offers comprehensive tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, and more. It has a good navigation bar on the right that breaks down the tutorials into sections and allows both beginners and more advanced users to easily find what they want.

Flash

15. Activetuts+: This is a blog/Flash site built around providing awesome Flash, ActionScript, and Flex tutorials. The writing is casual, the information is clear and concise, and overall, this is a fantastic site for Flash tutorials.

16. Adobe Developer Connection – Learn Flash: Adobe’s web developers keep us up-to-date with these great flash tutorials. They cover everything from interactive 3D video flips to animated presentations. They also have learning guides for beginners.

17. Entheos – Flash: Entheos provides great Flash tutorials with demonstrations, clear instructions, and screen shots.

18. Flashkit: This site has an extremely comprehensive database of flash tutorials. The main page shows all of the categories for the tutorials and gives a great overview of what you can expect to find on the site.

19. FlashPerfection: This is another great site devoted entirely to free flash tutorials. The tutorials are extremely well-layed out and easy to follow. For each tutorial, you can download the source files and see a demo of what you’re learning. This site definitely wins on visuals and user-friendliness.

20. Go to and learn: Lee Crimelow makes excellent flash tutorial videos and posts them on this site. You can stream or download the videos, and you can also download the source files.

21. Google Video Flash Tutorials: If you’re a visual learner, check out these video tutorials from all over the web.

22. Kirupa: This site offers a mixture of text and video tutorials on Flash and ActionScript. The text-based tutorials all demonstrate the flash principle.

23. Newgrounds: This site uses flash to create interactive, engaging flash tutorials.

Fireworks

24. Adobe Developer Connection – Fireworks: These tutorials are brought to you by the developers behind Fireworks, so you know you can trust them.

25. Articles & Blog Posts on Top Fireworks Tutorials: These articles and blogs compile some of the best Fireworks tutorials that are scattered across the web.

• DesignM.ag: 35 Excellent Adobe Fireworks Tutorials
• Six Revisions: 20 Useful Fireworks Tutorials for Designers
• Smashing Magazine: Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads – Best of
• TemplateLite: 65 Photoshop Fireworks Tutorials
• Tutorial Lounge: 40+ Striking Adobe FIreworks Tutorials

26. Entheos – Fireworks: Entheos provides clear, concise Fireworks tutorials complete with screenshots.

27. Firetuts: This is a blog completely devoted to Fireworks tutorials. Tutorials cover topics like adding radial gradient in text and creating flare effects.

28. Google Video Fireworks Tutorials: If you’re looking for variety and video, Google Video is a good place to start.

29. Layers Magazine: Self-dubbed “The How-to Magazine for Everything Adobe,” Layers offers an array of excellent Fireworks video tutorials.

30. Tutorialized: This site has over 175 user-submitted Fireworks tutorials. There are categories, ratings, comments, and votes to help you sort through them.

31. Voidix: These tutorials are extremely visual—they are all a few images with a sentence or two of text in between. They are very user-friendly and easy-to-understand.

Dreamweaver

32. Adobe Developer Connection – Dreamweaver: Adobe developers offer Dreamweaver tutorials on this site.

33. Entheos – Dreamweaver: Learn Dreamweaver tips, behaviors, templates, and CSS behavior in these Dreamweaver tutorials.

34. Google Videos Dreamweaver Tutorials: This is Google’s collection of Dreamweaver video tutorials from all over the web.

35. Layers Magaine: As the “How-to Magazine for Everything Adobe,” Layers offers some of the best Dreamweaver tutorials out there.

36. The Site Wizard: This site covers all of the Dreamweaver basics and then some with its tutorials. The related articles at the end of the tutorial provide a great way to learn something new that you may not have been looking for.

37. TeacherClick: While this site is old and all the tutorials focus on Dreamweaver 8, it is extremely comprehensive and written entirely for the beginner. It was also designed as a course and is broken up into units, so this structure may be better suited for some people than video or flash tutorials.

38. Tutorialized – Dreamweaver: This site has over 25 sections of user-submitted Dreamweaver tutorials.

Photoshop

39. Google Videos Photoshop Tutorials: Google’s collection of all of the Photoshop tutorials it can find.

40. PhotoshopCafe: This site is devoted to Photshop training and has sections on tutorials, reviews, forums, and more.

41. PhotoshopContent: This site revolves around Photoshop contests for members, but it also has a great tutorials section.

42. PhotoshopEssentials: This site has an extensive collection of Photoshop tutorials for beginners. It also offers free Photoshop Brushes to download.

43. PhotoshopLady: This site collects all of the best Photoshop tutorials from all over the web. Tutorials are divided into eight categories and all of them have ratings and page views. You can also submit your own tutorial.

44. PhotoshopLover: This site compiles Photoshop tutorials from all over the web. There are multiple sections and you can sort each by Newest, Most Popular, and Most Views.

45. PhotoshopStar: This is another Photoshop blog that provides great, visual, easy-to-follow tutorials.

46. Photoshop Tutorials: This is a fantastic resource for Photoshop tutorials, downloads, inspirations, and more. The tutorials all have great visuals and are written in plain language.

47. PSDtuts+: This is another awesome Photoshop blog. What makes this blog stand out from the others is the drop-down Tutorial menu at the top of the page, which makes finding what you want a snap.

48. Pshero: This is a comprehensive Photoshop blog with a great design and section dedicated to tutorials. Tutorials all fall into four categories—Graphic Design, Photo Effects, Text Effects, and Tips & Tricks.

49. Tutorial9: This blog is all about offering free tutorials and resources. The Photoshop tutorials are very well-done and readers get the added benefit of an assortment of comments to go along with the tutorial.

Final Cut

50. Atomic Learning: This site offers a collection of free tutorials on Final Cut. The free videos do not use the most up-to-date versions of Final Cut, but the concepts and many of the details remain consistent with the latest version. Paid subscribers have access to more tutorials.

51. GeniusDV: This site offers training and consulting services for a fee, but it also has this great section for free Final Cut Pro courseware.

52. Google Videos Final Cut Tutorials: Google’s compilation of Final Cut Videos.

53. LAFCPUG: This is the site for the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group. Group members post tutorials on everything Final Cut, and there are already over 200 that cover topics as broad as “Guide to Final Cut Pro Internal Tools” and as narrow as “Flash Cutting with the Blink Filter.”

54. Lynda.com: This site provides nearly three hours of free video training for Final Cut Pro. Topics include “Superimposing video layers,” “Applying filters,” and “Performing color correction.”

55. MacProVideo: This site offers a great 60-minute video tutorial produced by one of the original designers of Final Cut Pro and the founder of macProVideo. The tutorial is fantastic—it is broken down into meaningful sections and the instruction and visuals are extremely well done.

56. Peachpit: While this site mostly centers around paid products, it does provide some free sample tutorials of extremely high quality. The color correction tutorial is a 15-page professional PDF, complete with screenshots.

57. Ripple Training: This site was created in order to offer Final Cut users resources and training. It offers 19 free video tutorials on Final Cut Studio, as well as many reasonably priced tutorials both on DVD and as an instant download.

• $_GET – data from get requests
• $_POST – post request data
• $_COOKIE – cookie information
• $_FILES – uploaded file data
• $_SERVER – server data
• $_ENV – environment variables
• $_REQUEST – combination of GET, POST, and COOKIE

Well you say I have “magic quotes” turned on so I don’t think this really matters. Magic quotes is fine for SQL injection attacks, but there are numerous problems. What happens if the data sent by the user is just emailed to someone?  What happens if your code runs on a server without magic quotes installed? What happens when your developer becomes “fat and lazy” and forgets about things like cross site scripting and smtp header attacks? Im sure these are among  reason its was deprecated in 5.3.

Authorize

DOCS: http://developer.authorize.net/
PHP: http://developer.authorize.net/downloads/

PayPal Express
PayPal Pay flow Pro

DOCS: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/documentation
PHP CODE: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/library_download_sdks

ERROR LIST: https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/result_values_for_transaction_declines_or_errors.htm.htm

Google Checkout

DOCS: http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/index.html
PHP CODE: http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/index.html

If you need help with custom integration feel free to email me at howe.bobby{A|T}gmail.com