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"Affordable" means vastly different things to different nonprofits, as does "Website" which can be a one page or 50 or 500 page site. It's also crucial to know how much of your staff resources you'll be spending on updating the site over the course of a year. Please describe your needs more clearly and you may get better input.
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I think it's worthwhile to consider this issue from the perspective of your customers. For instance, you may want to ask a sampling of your customers a) do they have a paypal account, b) if they don't, would they have any hesitation about using paypal? c) if so, what hesitations? d) which would they prefer d1) use paypal d2) use a credit card
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I think this is article is good for a certain kind of developer. One think I'd recommend for sure is for you to have someone who really understands web development and your needs participate in the interview process. You can ask all the right questions, but if you don't know the right answers for your organization, it won't do that much
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Authorize.net ( http://www.authorize.net ) supports online transactions in a way that integrates all credit card processing options. You can set up a merchant account with them, process offline credit card transactions, set up online transactions (with or without having your own ssl certificate) using their simple or advanced api and your own html forms
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Unfortunately, in my view, there are many ways to approach accessibility, and differing degrees of priority to give web accessibility, and many times when the costs of improving accessibility impinges on a preferrable appearance. Deciding early in a project on the level of emphasis and the acceptable level of constraint that web accessibility will play
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I found the following very helpful: http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/accessibility/developweb.html
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while not an online app really, one important yet often online feature to help bridge the digital divide is a form for sending email to a contact at an organization which doesn't require that the sender have an email address. People using public access terminals and people without email addresses are locked out when emails are provided. Online forms
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In IE 7, right clicking on a page gives the option to 'Email this page'. this is a feature of the IE browser and doesn't require programming. Firefox provides a right click 'Send Link' option that opens an email with the url of the page embedded. If these features don't work on some pages, it may have to do with unusual html
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congrats! your site design looks really right-on given your theme. I think the colors and use of photos is really nice, and the opening page is jam-packed with dynamic content. One thing i wonder about, and always have a bit of trouble with is a mix of white text on dark background nearby dark text on a light background -- my eye finds it slow to adjust
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usually i use these with online terms of use for online services. The org typically works out the language with a pro-bono lawyer. In 10+ org sites using these methods over last 10 years, I've never seen any legal issue arise as a result, and a small number of legal issues prevented by org staff referring to the terms. None of these texts had elements