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Understanding Open Source

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:28:53 PDT

What is Open Source?

What Open Source is Not

The Penguin

Placing a Paypal Button Over an Image

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:58:50 PDT

A gentleman on the forums yesterday posted a question asking how to place a paypal button over an image. I decided to write a tutorial about that here.

First of all, I don't think I will ever put a donate button on my site, but if I did, it would probably look something like this.

Here is how I did it.

First, I create a container with a backgound image. I make the container the same height and width as the image.

Here is the code for that container.

<div style="height:333px; width:500px; background-image: url('/images/begger.jpg');">
</div>

I will be placing the paypal code between the <div and </div tags. But I want to control exaclty where the paypal button shows up on the picture, so I need to creaet a container for the paypal button code and control its placement with css. I want to move it 350 pixels fromt he left edge and 50 pixels from the top edge of the image.

Here's the code for that container.

Now, we can place the paypal code inside that container like this.

Then we place this paypal container inside the image background container like this.

Check out my new Facbook site

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:34:51 PDT

In case you haven't seen it yet.

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What are Mash-ups?

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:15:57 PDT

You really should know.

Retweet Buttons for your Site

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:34 PDT

It sure can't hurt. It could help.

social medial optimization

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:06:25 PDT

I posted some of my recent experiences with social media in this forum thread. I thought some of you might find it intersting.

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Link Building

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:34:51 PDT

Link Building is the most important part of seo.

Part 1

Link Building - Internet Marketing Pillar #7 (Part 1) from David Bain on Vimeo.

Part 2

Link Building - Internet Marketing Pillar #7 (Part 2) from David Bain on Vimeo.

Add a Twitter-Powered Forum to Your Website

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:49:10 PDT

"Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed."

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Finding Customers Before They Search

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:45:00 PDT

Terrific article on where online advertising is going.

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Checkout by Amazon

thomas@thomasbrunt.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:42:52 PDT

Checkout by Amazon™ is a complete e-commerce checkout solution that provides your customers with the same secure and trusted checkout experience available on Amazon.com today. It offers unique features including Amazon's 1-Click^® and tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks.

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