Any web designers out there? Help, please!

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I'm trying to do a website for a band but I'm stuck. They want the user to pay for downloading the new single through PayPal, i.e. you click on the link, pay your quid to PayPal, and then you are allowed instant access to the page with the track on it.

I've tried various ways to do this without much success, and PayPal aren't a lot of help eithe. Does anyone have any ideas for how to do this?

All help greatfully appreciated!

― Harry T, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Best ask a label/website that do this...

Try http://www.twistednerve.com

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the seder graphics page linked to from paypal site tells you exact html you need to use. http://www.sedergraphics.com/paypal_resources.html

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, the actual link to PayPal bit I've already got, however this is usually for purchases which are to be sent through the post, or such like.

My problem is after you've paid your quid, how do I get PayPal to then tell my site that the money has been paid, so that the user can have access to the track?

― Harry T (Huey), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Like I say, Twisted Nerve do exactly this. Ask them, they will probably point you in the right direction.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Instant Payment Notification?

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/ipn-intro-outside

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

After payment is made with Paypal, isn't there a redirect URL that sends the user back to your site? You could use that to send the user to the download page.

Do Paypal also allow for an auto-notification email response to the buyer? Maybe this could also contain a download link.

― Mil (Mil), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mean to sound like a dick, but if you aren't able to figure this out then perhaps you're not the right person for the job. I mean, there are definite security concerns when dealing with people's money - do you really feel confident enough to implement this properly and safely?

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I just did a job interview via email with some place that makes websites for financial institutions and they asked me if I minded doing a test. Why no, I replied. I'd be thrilled to spend time doing free work. They sent me a long page with lots of fiddly form elements, terrible design (I counted five different left margins) which, to do up properly, took about three hours. It was pixel-perfect. I ran it through an HTML checker just to be sure I'd made no mistakes, and sent it back. They sent me a short email saying that my work was not up to their usual standard. I asked what they meant. Here is their list. HTML gurus, tell me what you think.

"rightmargin" is not a supported CSS style (within stylesheet)

Avoid the use of nested tables

Use TH, TBODY table tags, etc, and CAPTIONS

More use of CSS would use fewer repeated table attributes

CSS can reduce the need for spacer gifs particularly for title positioning

The linked stylesheet could be more "cascading"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"What a bunch of cockfarmers."

Seriously!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm increasingly moving to the csszengarden.com approach to html - stick everything in named DIVs and then use stylesheets to control it BUT don't get too anal over it and don't try and use html as some kind of typesetting tool (which it was never designed for). avoid layouts so tightly designed that they'll break when you look at them.

i wouldn't've used TH or TBODY tags either, never have...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even know what TBODY fucking means.

Do they really not want me to put cellspacing="0" in my tables??

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

I've been working on an increasing number of websites with other developers who use rails and stuff and they seem to rely an awful lot on things like blueprint.css and YUI grids and stuff. Does anyone else find these incredibly annoying? Or am I missing some massive benefit to using them?

― akm, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

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