I notice that other people are looking for email autoresponder solutions and autoresponder services that accepts paypal.

The time when I was searching for an autoresponder service, I tried to find one that accepted paypal since I didn’t hold a credit card yet at that time. I got a Norabots account for it’s price and for the support (my tickets gets answered).

Anyway, once I got hold of my own card (debit card, really) that has a VISA logo on it, I signed up for a Getresponse account. I would have used aweber, but they increased its pricing.

Anyway, while searching for the “best” autoresponder and autoresponders that accepted paypal, I stumbled upon other autoresponders services out there.

So here they are (Note: I can’t vouch on some autoresponders listed below. Just do your own due dilligence first.):

“Big Companies” Autoresponders That Accepts Credit Card:

Aweber Resellers (Credit Card):

Autoresponders that accepts paypal:

*Resellers of Ebizac

I think the following autoresponders are autoresponders using the Parabots software:

Self-Hosted (To be installed on your own server/pc):

Hmm… I’m not very comfortable yet in hosting an autoresponder on my server but I’ve been eyeing on Autoresponse plus and Elite Autoresponder for some time now.

If you’re planning to get an autoresponder, I suggest you get something like Getresponse, or the aweber resellers. They have stronger features and higher email deliverability, and is price friendly for it’s features. Plus, they specialize in the industry.

Well I just transferred this blog(creationspire.com) to a different webhost – Hostgator.

What I wanted to do was to move the blog to different webhost, but maintain the domain and domain structure.

It was not a one-run-transfer, though. I manually did some fixes.

What I did was first was copied the entire blog folder to my local computer, just in case.

Then while on the old blog:

1 – I navigated to Manage>Export, and exported the comments, pages, custom fields, categories, and tags.

2 - It created an xml file which I was to import in the new blog

On the new host:

1 -  I  added a new Addon Domain, which is creationspire.com, inside cpanel.

2 – I then created a new WordPress installation via Fantastico using the same domain structure.

I encountered an error here which was something about not being able to install the same script on the root domain. Couldn’t remember the exact wordings.

To fix the error, I deleted a file inside .fantasticodata folder called installed_in_root.php and after that, wordpress was installed successfully on the new webhost.

3 - Inside the new blog admin panel, I then Imported the data from the old blog by going to Manage>Import>Wordpress.

No errors encountered here.

Now for the important part that tells the domain name its now sitting on the new host: The Name Servers.

After the above steps, I logged in my domain’s account and changed the nameservers to hostgator’s nameservers.

I then waited ’til the domain propagation was complete and voila! I just transferred my blog to a new host!

Some things to note:

1) Change the permalink settings for the new blog. I used the %postname% settings. I almost forgot to change it. :p

2) Upload the blog’s theme.

3) Re-add the sidebar widgets.

4) Delete the default “Hello World” post and “About” page.

5) Plugins :  plugins are sometimes the main issues on why blog transfers yield errors. Since I wanted to restore some plugin stats, I just uploaded a fresh copy of the plugin to the plugin directory and imported the plugin database via phpmyadmin. I didn’t do this for all plugin installed, though.

I tried copying the entire directory and just pasting it on the new host, and importing the database, but while importing the database, I encountered some errors. So I just opted it to do the blog transfer as posted above.

I made a post a while back on how to create Big submit buttons for your optin forms. It’s pretty long because I showed you several sample codes and went on explaining certain things.

Anyway, here’s a shorter post on how to create Big Submit Buttons with borders.

Just copy and paste the codes.

1) Making the submit button text bigger, wider and bolder

Copy and Paste this inside the Submit Button’s tag:

style="font-size:20px;font-family:Arial;width:100%;height:40px;font-weight:bold;"

2) Adding borders on the submit button

Copy and Paste this inside the <TD> tag surrounding the submit button:

style="background-color:#800000; padding:5px; width:100%;"

3) The Optin Box

If you want to place your form inside a box, copy and paste this code around your autoresponder code:

<div style="border: 5px dashed #000000; margin: auto; padding: 15px; background-color: #ffffcc; font-family: Tahoma; width: 380px;">
<div style="font-size:28px; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold;">
SIGNUP FREE To Claim Your Download!</div>
Just enter your first name and primary email address below to receive your free download:
 
&lt;-autoresponder code here-&gt;</div>

Here’s a pic that shows you where to exactly paste the above codes.