Archive for the 'web' Category

15
Aug

Manager Assistant site review

As a professional web developer and SEO I get asked for website reviews sometimes: this post is a paid review of the Manager Assistant website.

Generally when I’m doing an overview of a website I look at 3 main topics:

Usability  and Accessibility

This is important because accessible sites are normally search engine friendly, and usable sites get longer visitor stay time and happier users.

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27
Jul

Learning through doing … CSS

Under construction

Remember back in the 90s when half the web had the tacky “Under constuction” animated gifs? I sure do. Well anyway, I’ve decided in order to learn CSS properly I’m going to create me a Wordpress Theme. Who knows, if I manage to make it half decent I’ll make it available for download.Under construction sign

… yep, I’m lazy so I’ll hack it live: if something looks majorly wrong, hit shift-reload and see if I fixed it. If it’s something minor (i.e. site is still almost readable) then I might be slow to fix it - sorry. The RSS feed will continue to work.

Until then, be warned: this site is under construction!

18
Jul

Paypal - donate button and error message 5302 solved

The Paypal button I created using the code off their site didn’t work - I was getting this Message 5302 that the world was falling apart or something. Whatever it was, the result was I couldn’t be paid and my goldfish would starve and we can’t have that. So here’s how to fix it.

To create button in the first place, log in to your account, click on the “Merchant Tools” tab and then click on Donations in the “Key Features” box down on the right. Click the “Create Button Now” button down the bottom and you’ll see a page something like this:


Screenshot from paypal site showing your button code

The idea is that you copy and paste this code into a webpage to produce your unique Donate button. Great! But the problem is that if you copy and paste the code exactly as above then more than likely you’ll get a “Message 5302: the kettle is unplugged” error, which is bad. Thankfully, it’s a simple fix.

Change the bit that says

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to say:

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or in order words, remove the linebreak. Done!

It’s kinda irritating that it’s such a simple thing. I have emailed PayPal tech support many times now about this error message and got the usual brush-off, d’oh!

If you found this post useful in fixing your 5302 error please leave a comment or even link here with the code <a href=”http://amdsoft.com/”>amd on software</a> which I’d really appreciate :)

Thanks and good luck!