I have never made a business site before. I am trying to make one, but have NO java, php, or perl experience. I am trying to do this in all HTML coding. One thing I don't know how to do, that I desperately need to do with the page, is put Pay Pal on it, so that people have another option other than Credit Cards.

I would also like to know how I can make it so that the people that visit the site cannot right click or copy in any way, the pictures that will be on the site. I know a few ideas for not being able to right click, but then there is the problem of the "view source" part.

Another thing I would like to do, is put watermarks on them, so that if someone does try to steal the pictures, without buying, that they won't be able to use them without seeing the watermark.

I am working with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 as my HTML editor. Its the main editor that I use. I also have your FREE editor as well.

Another problem that I have is the "mailto" section of the forms that I make. I put the coding in the way I was taught to, but it still don't work. I have enclosed the TEST page that I am making for you to see.

All help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you
Kim

Kim,
There is NO 100% way to secure pictures on the web.

Best you can do, is as you stated, watermark them. Or post smaller, slightly fuzzy, or otherwise mildly undesireable pictures so people won't want to steal them.

Disabling "right-click" is not really advisable, as this creates problems with accessibility for some users.

ok, how do i add the "thumbnails" of the pictures that I want to sell, in the center column of the table, so that they can click on the picture to add it to a cart?

i know how to add pictures to a page, but have never added them (so many of them) to a table. I want the people to be able to see the thumbnail so that they know what they are getting, but I also want them to know that they will be getting the FULL SIZE image, once payment is received.

i am just stuck where i am....grrrrr...i hate being stuck

Are you asking how to add a picture to the table? Or how to make a thumbnail picture for the table?

Adding a picture for the table is as easy as dragging and dropping in Dreamweaver if I remember correctly. You should be able to open the Projects (workbooks or whatever Dreamweaver has setup for this now as I don't use it anymore and mine is a very old version) and open the folder you have the images in (preferably stick them in the folder you plan to have them in already before you do this). Then just drag the picture to the location you want it to be in and it will put the code there for you as you can do this in the visual editor pane if you have the split pane for that open.

In CCHE just put the cursor where you want the picture to be in the HTML code, once again same as the top you can drag the image from the left column in your Project area or you can hit the button at the top on the toolbar for adding an image and fill in some more info for links if you want links and such.

A really easy thumbnail creator can be found here:
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Good luck and let us know if I didn't answer your question or missed something

i have a thumbnail maker. Thank you.

yes, this is helping.

when I get frustrated with something, I just start rambling on & on, and sometimes get off of what I am trying to do.

any suggestions on the rest of the questions above? like the pay pal thingy

The paypal part is a bit more complicated as you need to think about it as to how many items you will have for purchase. If you're filling a site with lots and lots of items (in your case it sounds like graphic files which can be 100's) then you may want to opt to buy the Shopping Cart Creator program instead? If that's not an option for you then you'll need to go through Paypal's site and setup a business account if you haven't already. Get it all set to go, verified, bank account etc. setup. Then...

Go to the area in the paypal site that allows you to create buttons for your products. The nice thing about this is you can actually copy and paste them and change the attributes that you need to for them and not have to create seperate buttons for each item if you can get away with that. If you need them to be specific in many ways then you'll need to create a seperate button for each item. Can get pretty heavily tedious to do, but it's doable. The copy/paste works pretty slick if you are able to just change a few things in the file that would be the best way.

Let me know if you need more info on this, it's been quite a while since I've looked at the paypal button creator thing, but I can help if you need as I do have a business account setup there too

here is an updated text file of what i have been doing, please let me know if you think my coding is done properly. like i said, i am using DW, but i can open my CCHE if needed

That looks about right where you have the howling wolves example area filled in. The only thing missing is if you want that picture to link to a larger image. If not then it's fine as is I would think

ok.

how would I add a "buy" button that would make the picture automatically go into a list of items that person would like to buy as a wallpaper for their computers?

i can get the pay pal thing from them, as i have a business account with them. i need something that will go from the buy button to some sort of "items ordered" list, that would then send the "original size" of the picture to the person, instead of the thumbnail.

the thumbnail is mainly there so that they can see what they are getting, and so that they can't enlarge it without it being distorted.

any suggestions?

I don't think without any type of shopping cart software (be it CC or any other brand for that matter) that you are going to find any easy solution to auto shopping. Having things automatically added to a shopping cart will require quite a bit of coding I think. And having it automatically send the file ... well I can't think of any way outside of some serious PHP/MySQL that you will get this done, but someone else might know.

If you do it manually then it's not quite as hard, but it's still going to require a bit of coding to add things to a shopping cart area. It's gonna definitely take some PHP to do that as it's gonna take quite a few If - Then statements and that's a bit above my head right now (probably forever lol).

I don't think Paypal has a shopping cart system, but you could check and make sure. The problem being that I don't think without some type of shopping cart system that anyone can buy more than 1 item at a time which could be a problem for you if someone wants to pick out a bunch of different graphics to buy at once. This is going to take shopping cart software, and some manual efforts for sending the files via email links or something like that.

The good news is, I'm thinking CC Shopping Cart Creator would do the trick pretty well. You could setup your cart which already does thumbnails and modal windows for you so people can see better images of the products they are buying. It allows multiple purchases. You can bypass any shipping/handling setup as that won't be needed, and when you get the orders in your email you can send them the links to their purchases manually. Any other way is gonna need some major coding intervention I think for automated systems.