DesignerTuts

Adobe Photoshop is such a well known program for graphic design and is used extensively on websites, print and more. Designer Tuts provides free photoshop tutorials covering many aspects of this powerful tool.

We have tutorials explaining the basics of Photoshop and more complex tutorials for the Photoshop experts. Whatever type of Photoshop tutorial you want we’ve got it.

Including some great tutorials on logo design such as our famous sky logo tutorial.

We have recently expanded out of photoshop and into PHP tutorials. Our most successful is a practical paypal ipn tutorial. Vital if you are struggling to work out how to sell online using paypal.

This tutorial explains in some detail what you can do to get the most from a Paypal Buy Now button. There are many options available to you and I include example code where possible. Paypal has some really good documentation on the subject so I have also included links to their site.
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Question: The “Buy Now” button was easier than I thought. What extra options are available.
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Question: I want a really simple “Buy Now” button on my website. How do I do it.

Answer: Use Paypal Website Payments Standard. Its very easy to set up. The customer clicks a “Buy Now” button. They are taken to Paypal’s site where they enter their card details or pay from their paypal account if they have one. The money then appears in your paypal account.
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Instant Payment Notification is better known as Paypal IPN and is Paypal’s interface for handling real time confirmation of purchases.

A typical use for IPN is where you want a customer to pay for a software download but there can be more to it than that and the IPN interface provides a wealth of options some of which I will go through in this article.
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How to Beat the Hackers

There are many schemes out there to stop people changing your links but in my opinion there is only one worth considering – the “htaccess technique”. It does require a certain level of technical expertise to set up but its not that difficult and this tutorial will take you through the steps needed.
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