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The Essentials of Joining the eBay Community
Registering and signing in with eBay is an easy process, and once you become an eBay member, you can start bidding in online auctions and auctioning off your own stuff. The following articles give you the low-down on getting your start on eBay.
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How to Change Your Facebook Timeline Cover Photo
Your Facebook timeline cover photo is the large photo that serves as a background to your Profile. People often choose visually striking photos or images that really speak to who they are and what they love —you’ll see a lot of nature shots. To change your cover photo, follow these steps. [more…]
How to Choose a Good Twitter Username
On Twitter, your username, or handle, is your identity. If you can, sign up for Twitter by using your name or a variation of it as your username (assuming somebody else isn't already using it). For example, if your name is John Ira, you may want to pick a Twitter username such as @johnira or @john_ira. [more…]
Internet & Social Media
Writing a Good Blog
Blogs, or Web logs, are online journals that are updated frequently, sometimes even daily. An update, (also called an entry or a post) is usually quite short, perhaps just a few sentences, and readers can often respond to an entry online. People who write blogs are commonly called bloggers. Bloggers, tongue in cheek, call themselves and their blogs the blogosphere. [more…]
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Choose or Delete an AOL Screen Name
Every AOL (America Online) account includes space for seven screen names, or user names: one primary plus six others. The primary name is the one you choose when you first joined AOL. The primary name [more…]
eBay
Dealing with Drop-Shippers in Your eBay Business
A drop-shipper is a business that stocks merchandise and sells it to you (the reseller) — but ships the merchandise directly to your customer.
By using a drop-shipper, you transfer the risks of buying merchandise [more…]
eBay
Setting Up Your PayPal Account and Profile
You start setting up your PayPal profile during the process of registering for a PayPal account. Open up your browser and type www.paypal.com into the Address Bar. The PayPal home page has multiple links [more…]
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JavaScript and HTML
You can think of JavaScript as an extension to HTML; an add-on, if you will.
Here's how it works. HTML tags create objects; JavaScript lets you manipulate those objects. For example, you use the HTML <BODY> [more…]
eBay
How Do Buyers and Sellers Use eCheck?
eChecks are the digital counterpoints of the pieces of paper found in a checkbook. Buyers and sellers pay and get paid by eCheck in electronic transactions similar to tradtional banking. [more…]
