“Customers who rely on PayPal are now able to sell their goods and services around the world and withdraw money to their local bank accounts,” explained Anuj Nayar, director of global communications, PayPal.

“However, before they can effect the withdrawals, they are now required to specify the nature of the transaction by selecting the appropriate ‘Purpose Codes’ i.e. whether the transaction is for the export of goods or services. This information is required under Indian laws in order to identify the nature of cross-border merchant transactions.”

PayPal, a service provider facilitating payments and money transfers online, has resumed processing payments for export of goods and services. Personal payments, that is money transfer between individuals, to and from India, though, continue to remain suspended until PayPal receives the necessary licences and approvals from RBI.

While there are many bugs IE 6 is having, there are various fixes available to fix them. I’ll go through some of them in future, and explain you how to fix them.

For the time being, lets look at Internet Explorer 7 funky bugs which drives web developers like me crazy. While most of the known bugs occur in relatively obscure situations and go unnoticed, there are few bugs, that are really stick out and cause web developers to waste many hours to fix them. It is because of the IE7 bug which causes the browser to render z-index in unpredictable orders. This causes multi-level navigation menu to render unpredictable, and disturbs your other html elements.

One way to fix many of this issues with IE7 is to dynamically reverse the default z-index stacking order of the elements on page. This will ensure the elements higher in your html source will also have a higher z-index order on your page, solving most of the IE stacking issues. Here’s the quick fix using on the best Javascript library- jQuery.

<!--[if IE 7]>

<script type="text/javascript">

$(function() {
 var zIndexNumber = 500;
 $('div').each(function() {
 $(this).css('zIndex', zIndexNumber);
 zIndexNumber -= 5;
 });
});    

</script>
<![endif]-->

Explanation of the Code:

If IE 7, is the conditional tag, which asks browsers to run this javascript code only in case of the IE7.

This code will start with a z-index of 500, and decrement the z-index for each DIV element of the page by 5, giving the first DIV a z-index of 500, the second, 595, the third 590, and so on. Note that the selector will find all DIV elements with the code $(‘div’). If you have different requirements, feel free to change the code or the selector to suit your needs by following jQuery’s documentation on selectors.

I found this cool website where I read that ie7 does something weird with the stack order when it renders the page and solves the problem using jQuery. Surprisingly I just copied and pasted the code (after analyzing it of course) and it fixed my problem! I just changed code to start z-indexing from 500 instead of 1000, because of the z-index I’ve been using for other elements.

Paypal needs authorization to operate a cross-border money transfer service, under country’s Payment and Settlement Sytems Act, as per the RBI.

In a Tuesday blog post PayPal said that they has suspended the personal payments to and from India following RBI directions until it resolves questions from Indian regulators.

“We temporarily suspended these services to respond to enquiries from the Indian regulators, specifically questions on whether personal payments constitute remittances into India,” the blog post said.

Although PayPal notified its customers, that personal payments to and from India, as well as transfer to local bank has been suspended, and it will be started soon. Although customers can still make commercial payments to India, but merchants can not withdraw funds in rupees to local banks. Paypal said customers should be able to withdraw funds to a local bank within a few days.

PayPal notified users on Saturday, through another blog post, that personal payments to and from India, as well as transfers to local banks, had been suspended. Customers can still make commercial payments to India, but merchants can’t withdraw funds in rupees to local banks, the company said.

This move has caused inconvenienced to a number of PayPal users in India including outsourcing companies, free lancers, and online retailers.

To stay updated on PayPal stories log on to https://www.thepaypalblog.com/

Paypal, cited a specific reason for the temporary suspension apart from concerns raised by Paypal’s business partners and stakeholders. The company noted that commercial payments to merchants in India would continue as normal.

The move is expected to have a serious impact on the thousands of Indian freelancers who are paid via Paypal for web design, writing and software development, PC World reported.

The move is reportedly related to the Indian government’s crackdown in November 2009 on international banking transactions, when it instituted new reporting and verification requirements on all banks and financial institutions to prevent international money laundering.

There is no such technique, that would work with every client. Each client have different background context and different expectations from us as an IT Consultant. In such case, there is no guarantee that the technique that worked with earlier client, would work with new client. Although there is nothing that can be static while managing client relations, but there are few guidelines which can help you manage it in better ways. Here are some steps which can help you master client relations:

• Be patient: It takes a lot of time to develop a strong relationship with a client. Be patient with client, it takes a time while both you and your client build a mutual trust.
• Be a good Listener: This is the most important skill. You must learn to be a good listener. Until you don’t listen to them, you can’t proceed with the solutions that they are expecting form you. So when it comes to customer relations, the first step is to become a good listener. If you manage your clients through email, then you need to ask lot of questions to make sure that you fully understand their needs. This is the basics of getting into your customers foot.
• Put yourself in the client’s place: Think yourself as a client, put yourself in the shoes of your clients, and think about what you would want if you were there. Then you’ll be able to offer your clients solutions, that will not just satisfy them, but delight them.
• Think the best of your client: Always think best for the the client. When something go wrong between you and your customers, give them a chance to make it right. They might have made an honest mistake.
• Be creative: Offer you clients that most of your competitors wouldn’t. Be creative with what you can offer to your client. Give them an advise which might not be requested by client, but can save a dollar. Or show them how their best counterparts manages their work, and where they can improve.

Help your clients understand their requirements clearly, if needed, educate your clients, and they will love to work again and again with you.

And always remember, Good Work + Happy Relations = Happy Client = More Repeated Business = More Growth.

That’s really tough! Because every SEO expert follows and advises different things which might be contradicting.

Here is the Google SEO resources for Beginners & Webmasters being posted on Google Webmaster Central Blog.

Here is the Video which will give you through the basic insights of SEO practice a web professional should follow while building a website. However, if you don’t like to watch it, you can download Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide being published by Google.

I hope it would be nice to share Google webmaster guidelines for your reference.

Feel free to post comments.

Dynamics AX for Retail features numerous modules that allow retailers to integrate point-of-sale, store management, supply chain, and finance into a single platform. This indeed gives retailers much needed integration of retail stores, which enables business to focus on its vision of enhancing customer experiences.

“The greatest challenge in retail is the changing nature of consumer behavior. People are becoming less brand-focused and more cost-conscious,” said Crispin Read, general manager of Dynamics ERP. “Retailers will need to provide a completely connected experience to consumers.”

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We’re going to use gzip compression instead of zlib compression.

Here is the one line php code you need to enter into your header file. This will compress html / xhtml code.

Here is how it works:

Well, when the system works normally (I mean without compression), it’s not that efficient. 100KB is a lot of text, and frankly, HTML is redundant. Every <html>, <table> and <div> tag has a closing tag that’s almost the same. Words are repeated throughout the document. Any way you slice it, HTML (and its beefy cousin, XML) is not lean.

And what’s the plan when a file’s too big? Zip it!

If we could send a .zip file to the browser (index.html.zip) instead of plain old index.html, we’d save on bandwidth and download time. The browser could download the zipped file, extract it, and then show it to user, who’s in a good mood because the page loaded quickly. The browser-server conversation might look like this:

1. Browser: Hey, can I GET index.html? I’ll take a compressed version if you’ve got it.
2. Server: Let me find the file… yep, it’s here. And you’ll take a compressed version? Awesome.
3. Server: Ok, I’ve found index.html (200 OK), am zipping it and sending it over.
4. Browser: Great! It’s only 10KB. I’ll unzip it and show the user.

The formula is simple: Smaller file = faster download = happy user.

Not convinced? Here is the example of yahoo.com, the size of which compressed to around 78% using this technique.

Want to check how much you can save using gzip? Go to http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and enter your site address to check, how much bandwidth can be saved.

Here we use PHP to return compressed content. Give your HTML file a .php extension and add this code to the top:

<?php if (substr_count($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip')) ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); else ob_start(); ?>

Verify Compression:

Once you’ve configured your server, check to make sure you’re actually serving up compressed content.

• Online: Use the online gzip test to check whether your page is compressed.
• In your browser: Use Web Developer Toolbar > Information > View Document Size (like I did for Yahoo, above) to see whether the page is compressed.
• View the headers: Use Live HTTP Headers to examine the response. Look for a line that says “Content-encoding: gzip”.

Be prepared to marvel at the results.

Basic Tags

<html></html> Creates an HTML document

<head></head> Sets off the title and other information that isn’t displayed on the Web page itself

<body></body> Sets off the visible portion of the document

Body Attributes

<body bgcolor="pink"> Sets the background color, using name or hex value

<body text="black"> Sets the text color, using name or hex value

<body link="blue"> Sets the color of links, using name or hex value

<body vlink="#ff0000"> Sets the color of followed links, using name or hex value

<body alink="#00ff00"> Sets the color of links on click

<body ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> Disallows text selection with the mouse and keyboard

Text Tags

<pre></pre> Creates preformatted text

<hl></hl> Creates the largest headline

<h6></h6> Creates the smallest headline

<b></b> Creates bold text

<i></i> Creates italic text

<tt></tt> Creates teletype, or typewriter-style text

<cite></cite> Creates a citation, usually italic

<em></em> Emphasizes a word (with italic or bold)

<strong></strong> Emphasizes a word (with italic or bold)

<font size="3"></font> Sets size of font, from 1 to 7

<font color="green"></font> Sets font color, using name or hex value

Links

<a href="URL"></a> Creates a hyperlink

<a href="mailto:EMAIL"></a> Creates a mailto link

<a href="URL"><img src="URL"> </a> Creates an image/link

<a name="NAME"></a> Creates a target location within a document

<a href="#NAME"></a> Links to that target location from elsewhere in the document

Formatting

<p></p> Creates a new paragraph

<p align="left"> Aligns a paragraph to the left (default), right, or center.

<br> Inserts a line break

<blockquote></blockquote> Indents text from both sides

<dl></dl> Creates a definition list

<dt> Precedes each definition term

<dd> Precedes each definition

<ol></ol> Creates a numbered list

<ul></ul> Creates a bulleted list

<li></li> Precedes each list item, and adds a number or symbol depending upon the type of list selected

<div align="left"> A generic tag used to format large blocks of HTML, also used for stylesheets

<img src="name"> Adds an image

<img rajaram="name" align="left"> Aligns an image: left, right, center; bottom, top, middle

<img src="name" border="1"> Sets size of border around an image

<hr /> Inserts a horizontal rule

<hr size="3" /> Sets size (height) of rule

<hr width="80%" /> Sets width of rule, in percentage or absolute value

<hr noshade /> Creates a rule without a shadow

Tables

<table></table> Creates a table

<tr></tr> Sets off each row in a table

<td></td> Sets off each cell in a row

<th></th> Sets off the table header (a normal cell with bold, centered text)

Table Attributes

<table border="1"> Sets width of border around table cells

<table cellspacing="1"> Sets amount of space between table cells

<table cellpadding="1"> Sets amount of space between a cell’s border and its contents

<table width="500" or "80%"> Sets width of table, in pixels or as a percentage of document width

<tr align="left"> or <td align="left"> Sets alignment for cell(s) (left, center, or right)

<tr valign="top"> or <td valign="top"> Sets vertical alignment for cell(s) (top, middle, or bottom)

<td colspan="2"> Sets number of columns a cell should span (default=1)

<td rowspan="4"> Sets number of rows a cell should span (default=1)

<td nowrap> Prevents the lines within a cell from being broken to fit

Frames

<frameset></frameset> Replaces the <body> tag in a frames document; can also be nested in other framesets

<frameset rows="value,value"> Defines the rows within a frameset, using number in pixels, or percentage of width

<frameset cols="value,value"> Defines the columns within a frameset, using number in pixels, or percentage of width

<frame> Defines a single frame — or region — within a frameset

<noframes></noframes> Defines what will appear on browsers that don’t support frames

Frames Attributes

<frame src="URL"> Specifies which HTML document should be displayed

<frame name="name"> Names the frame, or region, so it may be targeted by other frames

<frame marginwidth="value"> Defines the left and right margins for the frame; must be equal to or greater than 1

<frame marginheight="value"> Defines the top and bottom margins for the frame; must be equal to or greater than 1

<frame scrolling="value"> Sets whether the frame has a scrollbar; value may equal “yes,” “no,” or “auto.” The default, as in ordinary documents, is auto.

<frame noresize="noresize"> Prevents the user from resizing a frame

Forms

For functional forms, you’ll have to run a CGI script. The HTML just creates the appearance of a form.

<form></form> Creates all forms

<select multiple name="NAME" size=?></select> Creates a scrolling menu. Size sets the number of menu items visible before you need to scroll.

<option> Sets off each menu item

<select name="NAME"></select> Creates a pulldown menu

<option> Sets off each menu item

<textarea name="NAME" cols=40 rows=8></textarea name> Creates a text box area. Columns set the width; rows set the height.

<input type="checkbox" name="NAME"> Creates a checkbox. Text follows tag.

<input type="radio" name="NAME" value="x"> Creates a radio button. Text follows tag

<input type=text name="ram" size=20> Creates a one-line text area. Size sets length, in characters.

<input type="submit" value="NAME"> Creates a Submit button

<button type="submit">Submit</button> Creates an actual button that is clicked

<input type="image" border=0 name="NAME" src="name.gif"> Creates a Submit button using an image

<input type="reset"> Creates a Reset button