When doing so, you can slightly customize the checkout form that users see when they’re taken to PayPal’s site. These forms are a little bit ugly, even if you do customize them, but anyway, it’s possible and the point of this post is to show you how to get secure versions of your images. As PayPal tells you on their Custom Page Styles creator, if your images aren’t hosted on a secure server, your users’ browsers are going to pop up a message telling them that the page contains unsecure items and make it all the more likely that’ll scare them away from completing the transaction. So how can we get our images hosted on an SSL Certificate secured site without purchasing one just for this purpose?

Use Dropbox to Host Secure Images for your PayPal Custom Page Styles

Good ol’ Dropbox to the rescue. Dropbox is a free service (up to 2GB) which you can use to store files online, even back up particular files on your computer, and then access them anywhere. This includes sharing those files publicly. Here’s a rundown of how to do this, exactly.

1. Sign up for a Dropbox account. It’s free for up to 2GB of storage. You have to download program to your computer, but Dropbox can be so much more useful than just for the purposes of hosting a couple of images on PayPal, though if you don’t want it on your machine anymore, you can just delete it when you’re done with this process.
2. Once you’ve gone through the sign up process with Dropbox, sign into your account.
3. Click the Dropbox link near the top left of the page.
4. Click the Upload Icon right around the middle of the top of the page to upload your images.
5. Once you’ve uploaded them, you can drag and drop them into the Public Folder. This makes them viewable by anyone on the web, including for use on PayPal.
6. Click the Public Folder to view it’s contents.
7. Right click on the name of the file you want to use in PayPal and choose Copy public link.
8. A window will popup with the URL to the file, just copy that and paste it into PayPal where appropriate.

There you have it, HTTPS:// SSL Secure image hosting for absolutely no cost! Thanks Dropbox!

That’s right, for the price of two tickets, you get over $3000 worth of ClickNathan Web Design services, which includes:

• Complete Custom Design catered specifically to your wants and needs.
• Web Standards Compliant Development so your site will be fast, naturally search engine compliant, and work across all the major browsers.
• WordPress as a Content Management System allowing you to update your site’s pages, blog posts, upload images and other files, and just generally manage almost every aspect of your website.
• Search Engine Optimization built right in.
• Free Hosting for the life of your site (normally $100/year)

All you need is to have two tickets to the May 19th, 2012 Jack White show at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC. Email me at design@clicknathan.com if you’re interested.

The goal of the magazine is to help people who love to travel, and particularly those who do it on a fulltime or quite-a-bit-of-their-part time basis, find discounts and secrets on where the best places to stay are, and some perhaps lesser known things to do once you get there.

We’ve been traveling fulltime around here for the better part of four years, and before that countless cross-country roadtrips, train rides and plane tickets were tucked up under our belts. We call it a magazine because it’s not just another website, the same old layout with the same old approach: we’re looking to make it as close to the experience of reading a real magazine as possible, customized for your particular device, whether it’s sitting around the RV kitchen table with your laptop, doing a little light reading on your iPhone on a long haul through Kansas, or diving in via the best experience, in our opinion, via your iPad while sitting around the campfire waiting for the hot dogs to cook.

Whether you’re a traveling warrior trainhopper type or snowbird retirees living in your RV, our “family staff” ranges in age from a young set of parents with a 13 month old to pre-teens to closer to retirement age. We’ll show you the coolest bars to grab a local beer and the best things to do with your kids. Whether you want to hike a mountain or sit back on a tour bus, we’ve got you covered.

With loads of options for delivery, either via beautifully customized RSS Feeds or email updates, or by following us on Twitter, or any of the above website experiences, you can get Wand’rly how you want it.

We’ve also developed a lucrative but not overladen ad system which, unlike a paper magazine, means one small ad per article which is specifically focused on the region in which the issue covers, and we only accept advertising from establishments who’s products or services we’ve tried and can attest to their value.

We’re excited to get this up and running, and if you’d like to learn more, follow us on Twitter via the link above, or sign up for our newsletter at wandrlymagazine.com!

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Nathan Swartz, freelance Web Designer (clicknathan.com), is looking for a part time Web Developer for 10 – 20 hours / week. Potential candidates should be experienced in taking PSDs and converting them to web standards compliant, valid HTML5 and CSS3 templates; creating WordPress Themes; developing custom WordPress plugins and well versed in jQuery, PHP & MySQL.

Candidate must have a portfolio of web development work available online. Work from home, make your own hours and supply your own equipment (ie, your computer and software). While the position is location independent APPLICANTS MUST BE US CITIZENS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN THE UNITED STATES.

Visit clicknathan.com/jobs/wordpress-web-developer/ to apply (application closed, position filled).

Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.

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This will change the web as it is now forever. YouTube never would have gotten off the ground had this law existed when it started. Facebook and Twitter will no longer be free and open forums. Google search results will be further filtered. Real, valuable content and the free flow of information that is the Internet will be hidden away forever. We have freedom of speech and freedom of the press in this country, but if this law is passed, those freedoms won’t extend to the Internet and will effectively be policed by the entertainment industry.

Please watch this video and then write to your congressmen and attend a town hall or at least spread the word in your social circles.

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Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule.

Fun article on a guy who lived with wolves.

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