May 27
Money Tools
icon1 Xavier Costa | icon2 Tools | icon4 05 27th, 2009| icon3No Comments »

For me there are two major tools when we talk about moving money online:

- PayPal

- Moneybookers

Those similar yet different tools have everything you need when it’s about paying or receiving money online.
Witch one should you choose?Well…that’s really up to you.

Both of them only need a valid e-mail account to register, and they both have Merchant Tools for you. This means that if you have a business of your one and want to charge your clients, you don’t have to worry too much how to do it.
Both PayPal and Moneybookers can help you with this. Your clients may choose to pay trough their accounts of this platforms, or they can use their credit card, like they would do on a “high-tech” enterprise site.

Me, personally, I prefer Moneybookers, I’ve been using it for a while now and I only have good things to say about it.
Low fees, reliable yet easy to use service. Fast transactions…you name it, they have it!

But PayPal is probably the most used tool arount the world, you can use it on E-Bay, and this is enough for you to trust it, right?

Go ahead, know the tools, register, and start moving money on the web!

Apr 28
Top25 Websites to Spread The Word
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Now…let’s see…you’ve bought your online domain and hosting space and you have a cool theme!

You’ve instaled a visitor counter and started publishing your texts…but…wait…the counter doesn’t moves except when is you that open your website!

Ohh….what a shame…you’re doing your best to write interesting articles..but no one knows about them…why should they come to your place in the big WWW??

Well, let me give you a little help with that!
There are “tons” of newsfeed/newsagregators/bookmark around here! They’re a good place for you to register and add your site/articles and articles from the websites you use to visit (some of this sites may cancel your registration if you use them solo to autopromote yourself and your site/blog,ok?)

Now, here’s a list of 25 TOP WEBSITES TO SPREAD THE WORD:

- Bluedot

- Clipmarks

- Shoutwire

- Backflip

- Diigo

- Mister Wong

- LinkaGoGo

- Dropjack

- BuddyMarks

- YouMob

- Squidoo

- Linkroll

- MarkaBoo

- Maple

- MyStuff

- MyLinkVault

- SiteJot

- IceRocket

- BlogHop

- Digg

- Delicious

- StumbleUpon

- Newsvine

- ClipClip

- Propeller

Mar 25
Count your visitors
icon1 Xavier Costa | icon2 Tools | icon4 03 25th, 2009| icon3No Comments »

Now, it’s time to count your visitors and to understand how many are them, where they live, from wich sites do they come from, what are the keywords that brought them to you!

For that purpose, I recomend a free yet usefull tool.

You can grab it on StatCounter.com and I’m sure you will not regret it. It’s adjustable to all kinds of sites and has plenty of resources for your website.

Go and grab it now!

Technorati Profile

Mar 23
Get a Wordpress Theme
icon1 Xavier Costa | icon2 Tools | icon4 03 23rd, 2009| icon3No Comments »

Now that you are online, it’s time to have a site that you like and seems like you!

Like your House and your Car, you try to find one that you like and that at the same time, fits your needs,right?

For amateurs and pros, Wordpress is the platform to use! Easy, costumizable, can be adapted to almost anything you want to do online!!

There are tons of free and paid Wordpress Themes for you to download and adapt to your Wordpress site.

The theme I’m currenlty using here was downloaded from a site called Topwpthemes and it’s a free theme.

However, there are some websites with paid themes and I strongly suggest you ThemeForest. In this website you’ll find tons of quality themes for Wordpress, pure HTML, Joomla, Flash and even PSD.
Pretty cool, huh?
Click on the image below to meet these guys!

ThemeForest

Their themes start from just $10 (7,40€)!
But you may think: Why to buy a theme if I can get one free?
Well, first of all, a paid theme is more rare, so you won’t find tons of websites like your, you’ll have a much more unique and personal website! I’ve just bought a theme there, but it seems it has some compatibility problems with my wordpress version, I’ve already contacted the author (one more advantage) and I’m waiting for him to help me solve this issue.

Why Theme Forest?

Well, you can pay with Moneybookers, Paypal and the most common Credit Cards.
Second, they’re part of a bigger group and all the money you deposit on your account can be used not only on Theme Forest but in any of the websites below:

Go get your resources!!!