Hi Blogazur

I'm at a loss as to why that is happening. The button works fine, clicking right through to PayPal when it is viewed in an HTML editor. There is also a similar type of link set up on WileyJohn's blog for his book which clicks through to the intended target image. The only thing I can suggest is to try using a text link version of the PayPal donate button. It would look something like the following:


It would appear in the blog column as follows: Make a Donation

How this link is made is fairly easy; on the page where you generate your PayPal button code, there is also an option for an email link. The email code is easily turned into an HTML type of link by inserting it between "" in the following code:

Happy to have sorted out the button. It's looks great. Only issue is that it clicks through to an error message.
Have been though paypal side of things and can't see what else to do there.

Hi Gomeza,

Thank you  for all of your effort and patience. Unfortunately neither the blogit or paypal template allows pasting. I have tried every which way.
I use a mac so a right click scenario does not apply however i manage to cut and past about 50 times a day normally 

I see that I did manage to get a paypal button up there but it leads only to an error message. I have carefully followed all instructions several times now and invested a lot of time in this.

I will try to remove the paypal button that is there now, as it is annoying to click through to an error message.
I did explain to Majroj initially that this stuff is not my specialism.


Thanks a lot. As the saying goes, it's not you. It's me. But that's OK. 
It's all a bit frustrating so I best leave it before I punch something and get back to my work.

Hi Blogazur

That is the code I am speaking of. When you reach the code for your Blogit template, simply right click, select all and copy it into a file, then send it to me. But now the problem you are describing sounds like something else. You could also post the PayPal button code here and I will take a look at it.

Hi,
Thank you but not sure what you mean by my blogit code? Only code I know is  how to reach is the template section for each blog. Is that what you mean? That is where i put in the button before. Although having done it, the paypal button clicked through to an error 404.

Many thanks.

Hi Blogazur

It sounds as if the code is being placed into the content area instead of the side column of the blog code. Looking at your Blogit account start date (2004), you should be on the old platform and it should be an easy fix. You have my email address, I suggest that you copy and paste your Blogit code in its entirety into a text file and send it to me as an attachment. It will take me about 2 seconds to fix it up.

Hi, I pasted in the code to the table, and then opened up my blog template and pasted it all there  in template.

Any tips on where to paste it amid that html code?  This time the donate button didn't appear at all. The first time i did this a few days ago the button appeared but then the button just led to an error page.

So what I am really asking is where on blogit is a good place to situate it, and how do you do that?
And then how do you ensure that the button clicks through to something?


Cheers. Many thanks.

Blogmajroj

In answer to your question; the fees associated with donations are the same as with any type of funds transfer via PayPal. Subsequently there is no limit to its use, it is viewed as simply another revenue stream by PayPal.

Thank you, very clearly set out. 
 I left the sum open on my  button so that people may pay whatever  sum they are comfortable with. I await  the next installment with great interest.

Might I add:
1. Remember Enron: when some of their officers' emails were subpoenaed, they just disgorged their entire email archive. IF you email it, it is in writing and subject to being flashed around the world by sore losers, or discovered by subpoena.
2. My worst habit: putting a postscript or personal question at the end of a message, essentially adding a second subject and messing up the email system.

PS:
ANSWER EMAILS. The new "no" is to ignore emails, or parts of them, instead of saying "no", or "I don't know", or "I'll get right back to you".