If you manage more than one web site, don’t forget that you can make great savings by “adopting” your additional domains as “child accounts” from your parent account. (By “parent account” we just mean your primary, main account. So if you are a web designer that would be the account of your own web site).

Our new improved discount rates for all our “buddy” applications are as follows:

  • 2-4 subscriptions: 15% discount
  • 5-9 subscriptions: 30% discount
  • 10 plus subscriptions: 40% discount

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Web-form-buddy’s popular file upload option now comes with a built-in customizable progress bar. This displays real-time stats to your customer as they wait for their files to upload. Updating every second or two, it shows:

  • A horizontal bar representing the progress of the file upload.
  • The size of the selected file.
  • The percentage completed.
  • The estimated time remaining.

We think this is a cool feature that will impress your customers!

To configure the color and style settings for your progress bar, log in to Web-form-buddy and go to “global options” >> “color & style settings” >> “upload progress bar“.

Technically this feature has proved to be quite a challenge. It has involved working with Javascript and CSS in the browser, and Perl and Apache on the server. A true “Ajax” application!

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Shopping Cart Delivery Charges

April 23, 2010

Web-store-buddy provides three methods for calculating shipping charges:

A charge “per item” method
Charge bands based on the value of the order
Percentage charge bands based on the value of the order

In addition, with the charge-per-item method, you have been able to add a handling charge, and set a minimum and a maximum limit for the order delivery [...]

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New Payment Option: Electronic Funds Transfer

March 17, 2010

Today we have added electronic funds transfer as a new payment method for both Web-form-buddy payment forms and the Web-store-buddy shopping cart.
The idea is that you can enter your bank account details on your control panel, and then if you enable this payment method your customer will be provided with bank transfer instructions. If [...]

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The Ins & Outs Of Favicons

February 18, 2010

Favicons are those small images that appear in the browser’s address bar and in browser bookmarks entries. Hopefully you can see our own “small green tree” icon right now in your browser’s address bar!
There are different ways to add favicons to your web site, but after a bit of research and a bit of trial [...]

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Drop Down Menu Fields With Payment Forms

February 16, 2010

We have just added support for drop-down menu fields with Web-form-buddy payment forms.
The idea behind payment forms is that you assign a price on your Web-form-buddy control panel to specific fields in your form.
In the case of text fields the purchaser can enter a quantity in the field and Web-form-buddy will multiply the price [...]

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Finally – A PC Backup Solution That Makes Sense!

January 11, 2010

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If you’re interested in a simple, fit-and-forget, powerful, and FREE backup solution for your PC, we can recommend MOZY (When we say “free” – you get 2Gb of free storage, but if you need more [...]

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The Form “ID” Attribute Versus The “Name” Attribute

January 9, 2010

Up until now, in a situation where you have several forms in one page, Web-form-buddy has asked you to use the “name” attribute of the form tag in order to distinguish one form from another. Like this:
<form name=”xyz” method=”post” action=”your-script-name.cgi”>
Well  this will still continue to work with your existing forms. But we have decided from [...]

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Integration With Google Checkout For Web-store-buddy

December 9, 2009

We have now completed the integration of  Google Checkout with Web-store-buddy.
The aim of Google Checkout is to try to make it as easy as possible for your customers to purchase from your store using a single user name and password. This fits in neatly with Web-store-buddy as, unlike most other shopping cart systems, Web-store-buddy does [...]

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Integration With Google Checkout For Payment Forms

November 24, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Web-form-buddy now supports Google Checkout as an option for payment forms.
With Google Checkout folks can pay using the credit cards that they have setup in their Google account. Compared to many payment methods, Google Checkout offers the buyer a particularly fast, easy and comfortable payment method.
Signing up to become [...]

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