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.

How to Sell Downloadable Products with Paypal IPN

I’ve been experimenting with Paypal IPN for some time now and I’ve had in the back of my mind that I wanted to put all the different tutorials I’d written together into one big explanation of what you need to do to sell downloadable products. When I tried this I realised there is just too much information for one tutorial.
So I’ve created a series. And despite my frog like voice I have decided to give video tutorials a go.
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If you are looking for a good keyword competition tool then look no further than Market Samurai. It is simply the best for finding out about competition within your niche. It does this by listing the top 10 websites for your chosen niche keyword phrase in an easy to read table. You can choose to display onpage (e.g. page titles) and/or offpage (e.g. backlink) factors together with a huge amount of related data.

You can also go deeper into finding out what the competition is doing right which hopefully will give you some ideas on what you should be doing with your website. Market Samurai will do a PR analysis of all the links to each of the top 10 sites together with a an anchor text analysis of these links. A vital feature a good Keyword Competition Tool.

An option I find really useful is the ability to specify that you want to concentrate on a specific part of the world e.g. UK when you start a new keyword research project, an option lacking in some keyword competition tools I have looked at.

The best thing I can recommend is that you download the Free Trial from the Market Samurai site and have a look for yourself.

Just to let you know this page contains affiliate links (I gain financially from my recommendation if you subsequently purchase)

There are many situations in which you might want to accept Web Payments. The most obvious being an online shop but there are others such as having a restricted area on your website for which payment is necessary. Also if you are selling a digital product then an ordinary website shop will often not meet your requirements.
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In this Flame Tutorial, I will explain the use of basic Photoshop shapes to create a life like flame. It is a single flame rather than a raging fire.

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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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