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Can anyone give me an idea where I'm going wrong. I've added a PAYPAL shopping cart to my site but only some of the buttons work. I thought that this was first of all because I used my own buttons.. but I have the same problem using PAYPAL's standard buttons. I have tried this a good number of times and looked at the HTML and can't find anything wrong. I'm at the point of throwing the computer out of the window!!!!!!!! Any advice would be great.
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Many thanks for that info... I thought I was having a really 'dim' day or something.... at least I know now its not entirely me thats at fault. I'll have a go at pasting the code into notepad and let you know how I get on. I did do it in the text editor ... but in the process I lost a cell from the table.... thats the point I almost lost the will to live as I couldn't find the gap in the code to put it back and had to start again!!! It would be a help if there was some way of saving the text you tidy up yourself in the editor - but having waded through it all and put in some sort of order as soon as you go back to your page it all melts down again.
Do you think it would be worth me coding this table in notepad to make sure the code is right and then just pasting it back into the editor? (sorry I'm thinking to myself now!!)
Do you think it would be worth me coding this table in notepad to make sure the code is right and then just pasting it back into the editor? (sorry I'm thinking to myself now!!)
Yes it does look as if your PayPal 'FORM' code has been messed up!
Some of the
Where I've been playing with my Instant Site it does seem the HTML editor is rather hard work! I've mentioned in one of my other posts about the way the editor 'formats' things, which makes it's use rather tricky.
If you go back in to edit your HTML you can wade through the 'compressed' code to find all your PayPal entries and try repairing the stripped out bits. It may be easier to copy/paste everything into a normal text editor like notepad (or Notepad++) correct things then paste it all back - but it's not ideal.
NB. It doesn't matter what file format your buttons are in as long as the code is correct.
NB2. One good effect of the Instant Site with PayPal is that your header logo within PayPal is hosted on Freeola's secure site (https) which means users don't get a security warning on PayPal :¬) Normally you have to find a specialist SSL host to get around this.
I believe Eccles is currently working on some Instant Site updates so the 'editor' may improve for PayPal and JavaScript etc. in the future.
I've also been working on PayPal today - apart from the frustrations you've seen here, I've nearly had a nose bleed going round and round in circles trying to get to the bit I want on the PayPal sites!
Are you aware of the PayPal developer 'Sandbox'?
This lets you try out your shopping cart etc. in a test environment. Unfortunately this has been running slow the last few weeks (or more) but it's worth persevering with: https://developer.paypal.com/
Good luck...
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Some of the
Where I've been playing with my Instant Site it does seem the HTML editor is rather hard work! I've mentioned in one of my other posts about the way the editor 'formats' things, which makes it's use rather tricky.
If you go back in to edit your HTML you can wade through the 'compressed' code to find all your PayPal entries and try repairing the stripped out bits. It may be easier to copy/paste everything into a normal text editor like notepad (or Notepad++) correct things then paste it all back - but it's not ideal.
NB. It doesn't matter what file format your buttons are in as long as the code is correct.
NB2. One good effect of the Instant Site with PayPal is that your header logo within PayPal is hosted on Freeola's secure site (https) which means users don't get a security warning on PayPal :¬) Normally you have to find a specialist SSL host to get around this.
I believe Eccles is currently working on some Instant Site updates so the 'editor' may improve for PayPal and JavaScript etc. in the future.
I've also been working on PayPal today - apart from the frustrations you've seen here, I've nearly had a nose bleed going round and round in circles trying to get to the bit I want on the PayPal sites!
Are you aware of the PayPal developer 'Sandbox'?
This lets you try out your shopping cart etc. in a test environment. Unfortunately this has been running slow the last few weeks (or more) but it's worth persevering with: https://developer.paypal.com/
Good luck...
Search Freeola Chat
Thanks Hmmm...
This is a link to the page I'm having trouble with
http://www.crystalbluefairy.co.uk/necklace__earring_sets.html
as you can see some of the PAYPAL buttons work and some don't.
I've tried a few times to re-do them but its just the same. I'd love to be able to get it right and with using my own buttons too. (just a thought on that one... should I be saving my buttons as gifs or jpg? - I don't think this is the problem anyway though as PAYPALs own buttons won't work either.)
Regarding checking the HTML I tried looking at this but its a bit of a mess in the editor - I did think that maybe some code was missing but I copied and pasted the whole chunks as it came from PAYPAL.
This is a link to the page I'm having trouble with
http://www.crystalbluefairy.co.uk/necklace__earring_sets.html
as you can see some of the PAYPAL buttons work and some don't.
I've tried a few times to re-do them but its just the same. I'd love to be able to get it right and with using my own buttons too. (just a thought on that one... should I be saving my buttons as gifs or jpg? - I don't think this is the problem anyway though as PAYPALs own buttons won't work either.)
Regarding checking the HTML I tried looking at this but its a bit of a mess in the editor - I did think that maybe some code was missing but I copied and pasted the whole chunks as it came from PAYPAL.
It would help if you could give us a link to the page in question...
After you have pasted the PayPal FORM code into your site are you then able to save things, then view the HTML again to see if the code is still in place?
My Freeola Instant Site
After you have pasted the PayPal FORM code into your site are you then able to save things, then view the HTML again to see if the code is still in place?
My Freeola Instant Site
Can anyone give me an idea where I'm going wrong. I've added a PAYPAL shopping cart to my site but only some of the buttons work. I thought that this was first of all because I used my own buttons.. but I have the same problem using PAYPAL's standard buttons. I have tried this a good number of times and looked at the HTML and can't find anything wrong. I'm at the point of throwing the computer out of the window!!!!!!!! Any advice would be great.
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