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[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

I just modified the Permaculture Activist Subscription page 
(http://www.permacultureactivist.net/subscribe/subscrip.htm) and enabled 
it to take Paypal for subscriptions to the Activist, Permaculture Mag 
UK, and Agroforesty News. Yay! I also enabled a couple pages to take 
Paypal donations (http://www.permacultureactivist.net/) to help fund our 
trip to Europe for the IPC7. Yay! I also made the site easier to look at 
and smaller. Yay! All well and good.

But, when I tried to use the Paypal system to set up payment for books I 
ran into a snag. The problem is we charge different postal rates for 
different regions, ie 10% to US locations,15% to Canada, and 20% to 
everywhere else, and Paypal doesn't offer the choice to make those 
distinctions. They recommend a third party shopping cart (I learn this 
after 6 hours of dicking around with a very slow [24k/s] Paypal 
interface). So, now what?

Is there a manual that can accelerate my learning curve on this shopping 
cart / merchant stuff? Excellent websites for novices? Commited 
listeners / advisors from the list who can help? I want to make this 
happen in a fairly short time so that I can attend to the gobs of other 
stuff in my schedule. Help! Other web workers please identify 
yourselves. I have  Dreamweaver MX and I'm using only a bit of its 
potential.

We need a guild or network or listserv for Permaculture Web Developers, 
I think. What do you think?

Thanks,
Keith

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Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 1209
Black Mountain, NC 28711
(828)669-6336

also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting
Culture's Edge at Earthaven Ecovillage
http://www.permacultureactivist.net
http://www.earthaven.org
http://www.bioregionalcongress.org




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