Frappr sucks. It won't let me use my actual zip code. Says it doesn't exist.
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DXMachina - Oct 27, 2005 4:09:43 am PDT #5320 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2005 4:14:23 am PDT #5321 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Deena - Oct 27, 2005 4:16:00 am PDT #5322 of 10003
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Frappr recognized that Lakewood isn't Cleveland. Yahoo doesn't seem to know that.
DXMachina - Oct 27, 2005 4:34:44 am PDT #5323 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Does Google Maps recognise your zip code? (I'm assuming it does).
It does. Frappr is discriminating against tiny post offices. Pillocks.
Stephanie - Oct 27, 2005 3:32:35 pm PDT #5324 of 10003
Trust my rage
I have a hiveminded tech question. Joe and I are in the middle of setting up a coffee roasting business. We have a website (www.simcoffees.com) and now we need to add a shopping cart capability. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to go about doing this? We have seen some companies that will allow you to take credit cards (I don't know all the terminology yet) but many of them seem to charge a lot. We only have one product (bag of roasted coffee) so I don't know that we need something fancy.
Any suggestions?
Ginger - Oct 27, 2005 3:39:17 pm PDT #5325 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If you're only going to have a few products, one of the simplest approaches is PayPal's merchant services.
quester - Oct 27, 2005 4:13:57 pm PDT #5326 of 10003
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
does anyone know how to make an icon? I found some gif's and I'd like to turn one into an icon for my work computer (a G4 Mac).
Stephanie - Oct 28, 2005 2:11:20 am PDT #5327 of 10003
Trust my rage
If you're only going to have a few products, one of the simplest approaches is PayPal's merchant services.
This was my suggestion but everyone else thinks paypal is *too hard* for custimers. I disagree but apparently I'm "net saavy" and therefore not a good judge.
eta: quester, I always use Photoshop, but I don't know if that's the easiest way.
Deena - Oct 28, 2005 2:39:44 am PDT #5328 of 10003
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Stephanie, With any shopping cart program, you're also going to have to have a credit card processor. (ETA: unless you get a shopping cart program that has the processing bundled. I don't know enough to say you can't do that.)
Paypal is a credit card and transfer processor. You can buy shopping cart software, or use Paypal's free shopping cart software, and integrate either with Paypal's payment processors.
Paypal has two programs, one of which sends the buyer to Paypal's website to make the payment and one that processes the payment on your website so they never see Paypal. The cost is $20.00 a month for the second one, plus a fee of ~2.9% per transaction. The information on it is here: [link]
You could start with the first one and then change to the second when you had the orders to support it.
Quester, is there something special about the icon? Are you asking what the size requirements are or where it should be saved or how to make a picture fit the size requirements? Or something else I'm not getting because I don't own a mac?
Theodosia - Oct 28, 2005 2:49:37 am PDT #5329 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I just experimentally did a regular copy on a jpg picture and successfully pasted it into an unimportant file on my Mac by going into the Info dialog box, clicking on the icon picture and pasting. There wasn't anything special about the picture (other than it was my cat) and it was/is much bigger than the standard icon. It scales down, though....