iWeb FAQ - Business solutions
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Selling stuff using iWeb. Is that possible? Any suggestions of how to do that?
A lot of people are asking questions about business solutions and iWeb.
Here are a few ways to sell stuff using iWeb...
Chapter 1: Using PayPal
Chapter 2: How to add a PayPal Shopping Cart to your website
Chapter 3: Other solutions
Chapter 4: How to build a store like http://iwebfaq.org/e-books/
Chapter 1: Using PayPal
1. Login into your PayPal account
2. Go to Merchant portal and you will find something called "Key features" where you have to choose what button you would like to add
- PayPal shopping cart
- Buy now buttons
- Donations
- ...
3. Once you chose the one you want click on it and you will be led to a page where you have many options to customize the button (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3)
4. Once you customized your button click on "Create Button" at the bottom of the page
5. The code will be created. Click on "Select code" and copy it Command(Apple)+C
6. Go to your iWeb=>Widgets=>HTML Snippets and paste the code in the black window and then hit Apply (if you use iWeb '06 you will not have HTML Snippets, in this case refer to the Alternative HTML FAQ on my site)
7. You will see the button appearing on your site. You're done.
8. Have a look at this for further information
Chapter 2: How to add a PayPal Shopping Cart to your website
Since a lot of people want to Add a Shopping Cart to their website and don’t know how to do that I will explain that using PayPal’s Shopping Cart.
1. Login into your PayPal account
2. Go to Merchant portal and choose PayPal Shopping Cart
3. Under “Accept payment for” choose “Products”
4. Enter Item name, Price, Currency, … and all the other information about taxes, shipping, ...
5. Once you’ve set all you need hit Create button
6. You will be shown a code for the “Add to cart” button (or the “Buy now” button, depending on what you did choose). Copy the code and paste it into an HTML Snippet which you place near the description of the product on your page
7. If you want to sell multiple products do the same for all the other products on your page.
8. When this is done create a “View Cart” button which you will place at the end of your page for people to have a look at their Shopping Cart and checkout (confirm the order and pay).
9. Again copy and paste the code in an HTML Snippet on your page
10. That’s it
Here’s an example (please note that there are no products to be bought here, as described they work as donations to me and my website and I won’t send you the money back):
Send me a 3$ Donation
Send me a 5$ Donation
Send me a 10$ Donation
Note: if you hit “Add to cart” you can always remove it from your Shopping Cart afterwards.
However if you decide to make use of this example/try it out and send me a donation I’d like to thank you and tell you that’s it’s much appreciated!
- Cédric -
Chapter 3: Other solutions
- http://kagi.com/index.php apparently most used (free)
- http://www.mals-e.com/home.php looks good to me (free)
- http://www.webasyst.net/shop/ also looks good (free for 100 articles and 100 purchases per month)
I guess these pages will also provide you a code to add in an HTML Snippet. Or they will host the stores themselves, if that’s the case you can embed it in iWeb pages using an HTML Snippet (have a look at iFrames)
Note: I didn’t try them myself so please don’t ask me questions about business solutions. I’d like you to ask them in the AppleDiscussionForums.
Chapter 4: How to build a store like http://iwebfaq.org/e-books/
This is fully described on my iWebFAQ.org E-Book.
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