EASY TECH ONLINE - Basics With Easy Steps for Novices

How to Sell From Your Blog With A Paypal Shopping Cart

The steps to sell items from a shopping cart by using Paypal include the following.

1.  PAYPAL ACCOUNT.  Open up a Paypal account by going to the website and creating one.

2.  PAYPAL SHOPPING CART.  Next log in to the paypal shopping cart and fill in the required information to sell your item.

3.  PASTE SHOPPING CART CODE to your blog.  Each blogging software will have it's own place where you can do this.  In Typepad you can use a Typelist and under lists use a Note. 

4.  STOREFRONT WIDGET.  This is also available a Paypal and can be added to the blog's sidebar.

5. PAYPAL HELP will give you can overview of the facts and steps.   

Successful Internet Entrepreneur Advises - Be Directly Involved With Your Online Store Daily, Know How To Use Your Store Software

The owner of Red Oxx travel adventure gear, Montana, advises owners of online stores to be able to work directly on their own website, instead of depending upon others.

Personally fine tuning details of your online store presence can be one of the secrets of success.  No one else but the store owner has the unique perspective and vision of the total picture.

In the video below the owner for Red Oxx travel adventure gear discusses his concepts and what helped him achieve success.

First Step of Building Online Store - Create Helpful Content For Readers

Preparing to start an online store needs to start with creating helpful content for readers, and for search engines to pick up. Simply listing the products will not be enough to create web traffic, good search ratings, and popularity with readers.

Visitors will keep coming back to read the new content.  They might list your site under their favorites, refer their friends, or click to receive updates via an RSS feed.

Search engines often find blog software to be search friendly, and blogs may rank higher than regular websites.

The video below will discuss some of these topics.

Using Widgets - Small Pieces of Software You Add to a Blog

People who use blog software can add small bits of additional software called "widgets." The video below explains more about widgets and how to use them.

How To Use A Video On Your Blog to Promote Your Organization

I made the video below for the Central Coast Seniors Center, and you can do the same to promote your favorite nonprofit organization. At youtube.com and other similar video sites you can upload videos to promote your nonprofit organization on the internet, or just provide videos for enjoyment.     

(1)      One easy way to do this is with Windows software, which includes the free Windows Movie Maker, but you can use any of the free softwares on the internet to do this.     

(2)     For an example of a nonprofit organization with a slideshow on youtube.com you can click on the link below which will jump to the video on youtube. (This is done by copying the address and then pasting it here.)     

(3)     The slideshow from youtube is also featured as an example in this post. (This is done by copying the code where it says "embed" and then pasting the code here.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epGl9daMG3k

How To Use Picassa To Create A Slideshow for Your Blog

This slide show was made by creating an album in Picasa from digital photos of sunsets I've taken.  The steps included:

(1) Uploading photos from Picasa on my computer to my Picasa Web Albums

(2) Clicking on "embed slideshow"

(3) Choosing the "extra large" size photos

(4) Copying the code for the slideshow

(5) Pasting into the box for writing posts for this website.   These photos are from my hometown area, Pismo Beach, Central Coast of California.

Pasting Video Entertainment from YouTube on Your Site

Everything from music videos, to Broadway musicals, to films can be found now on the internet.   To put this on a website

(1) just click and highlight where it says "embed" and then

(2) paste it into the "post" box on your blog, after choosing the "HTML"  tab.

In this video from youtube that I pasted into the write post box Emmy Rossum sings "Think of Me" from the movie "Phantom of the Opera." Enjoy.

Bloggers Can Get Free Computer Courses at e-learningcenter.com

Looking for bargain priced computer learning?  At the website for "e-Learning That Works" at e-learningcenter.com you can take free, self-paced online courses in Excel, Windows, Microsoft Office, HTML, Investing, Customer Service, and more. 

For a fee you can access all 30 class modules, including classes on website builders like Dreamweaver and Cold Fusion.  I'm taking some courses there on programming.  My approach, which I used in college, is to first go quickly through the course to get an overall concept of what it is about, then go more slowly to practice it, and then zip through it a third time to make sure it sticks in my mind. 

Example of a Photography Slideshow - Best of Nature's Photography

Areal Views and Street Views of Planet Earth Available for Your Blog - Google Earth's New Release

For computer travel you can go to Google Earth, and download the program that allows you to use satellite technology to view anyplace on the planet.  Google Earth now has 3-D views of the buildings and "Street View," not just overhead views.  Want to visit another country? Do it from your computer with the latest version of Google Earth. The video below has an introduction to it for you.