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Mailbag: Can Paypal keep both parties’ money in an illegal transaction?

This mailbag question comes from Brian who seems to have run-afoul of PayPal’s rules: I participated in a paypal transaction that was a violation of the paypal user agreement (although perfectly legal).  The other party states their account has been locked along with his balance “that paypal will now keep.”  My account has no indication that [...]

30 August 2010 at 10:21 - Comments

Kontera bug; Fix is in the works

For about the last ten days or so there has been a bug in the Kontera ad-code causing attempts to access pages that do not exist when a visitor ‘mouses over’ a Kontera ad-unit. This bug manifests itself as a ‘404 Page Not Found’ error at the website hosting the Kontera ads. Sites [...]

9 August 2010 at 10:43 - Comments
Jonathan Cohen (1 comments)
Hi Randy, This is Jonathan from Kontera. The fix was pushed out successfully and everything on your site looks good. ...
15 August 10 at 12:59

How Much Would You Sell Your Website For?

I’ve recently been in talks with a media company that has expressed interest in purchasing GrownUpGeek.com.  I made it clear to them up front that I was not really interested in selling, but I would listen to what they had to offer. What is the real value of a website? The standard way to valuate a [...]

3 August 2010 at 15:47 - Comments
Ray (4 comments)
An offer of $200,000 to $300,000 would be tempting, but if you are going to make more than that over ...
23 August 10 at 00:04
Blog or sites are usually valued at a multiply of what they cirrently earn. Its just a matter of both ...
30 August 10 at 20:10

Drupal: How To Add A Tab To A Views Page

I finally decided to spend a few minutes and re-familiarize myself with Drupal Views.  I hadn’t used the Views module since upgrading to to Drupal 6 last year when all of my views got blown away and I wanted to start rebuilding the views I had previously created.  I had been putting it off because [...]

25 July 2010 at 11:32 - Comments