Next week on Dec 12, 2009, the new FTC regulations go into effect. They mostly concern if your website promotes a product that you get a commission for if the visitor clicks through and buys. I've looked through their documention and found some of it a little confusing. But someone sent me this link that puts it more into plain english, so I thought I'd share: FTC regulation changes in plain English.

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I just found the coolest tool ever! And it's absolutely free! I keep seeing those really cool eBook cover images that look like paperback books. I've been trying to make one myself in Photoshop, but I can't quite find the write distortion filter to do what I want. Then I found a website with a FREE Photoshop action that will do exactly this!!! You do need Photoshop; a version that supports Actions. If you see Actions under the Windows menu, you're all set. I have Photoshop CS. Next go to this blog post and download it: Creative Techs blog. Unzip it and then load it from the ...

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There's no quicky way to set up your Zen Cart store so that each product has your affiliate link to a vendor's site, but I found a suggestion on the Zen Cart forum and developed it a little. I've set up one of my stores to be an affiliate site for the products. Here are the steps to take: Set your site to be in Showcase mode with or w/o prices (Admin/Configuration/My Store/Store Status) For each product you set up, put in your affiliate link for the product url. By default, the product url shows very inconspicuously on the product page as 'click here for more product information' but you can change includes/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php so that it shows a big Ordering ...

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