First of all you must have an active PayPal Business or Premier Account, and you must have entered this information into your details in the website administration section. If you have not entered this then you can do so by logging in and following the link to change your log in details. In this section [...]

RSS Blog feeds direct to your browser!
The Aurora Blog has a link to set up a direct RSS feed in your browser. This means that you can click a link on your browser toolbar and see new posts instantly without having to even visit the site.
Follow the ‘Entries RSS’ link in the menu to the [...]

For those of you who are not sure which PayPal account to sign up for (as there is quite a choice!) here’s a quick guide:

Go to http://www.paypal.co.uk .
Click “Sign up Now”.
Select “Business Account” then click “Continue”. You MUST have a business (or premium) account to be able to participate in the online shop. If you [...]

There’s some fantastic free image resizer software on the free cd with this months ‘.Net’ magazine. It’s a web developer mag which most of you will find thoroughly boring (but geeks like me love it!). You can find it in the likes of WHSmith and other good magazine retailers. This months mag (issue 163, June [...]

Open source software - it’s truly the way forward. It’s a whole new movement where programmers from all over the world combine their skills and create free software for the world. You have hundreds of contributors all helping make software better and easily accessable to all.
Here’s a list of my personal favourites:
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org
Full suite of  office products including Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Database, Presentation (Powerpoint-esque), all [...]

Elmnet is growing! I’m in the process of building Elmhost, a new web hosting side to the business. I’m looking at doing a special web hosting package for Aurora members who wish to look at building their own site.
I’m thinking along the lines of 200Mb webspace, unlimited bandwidth, 1 mySQL databases, 10 email accounts & [...]

Bit of an alarmist title this but don’t worry. What happens now only applies to new members or those who have yet to register and create their site. When a new user fills in their form online for the first time the information is held on the database and their page created but it will [...]

Yes, this is just the beginning! You’ve uploaded your new site details, added 10 images, now all that’s left to do is sit back and wait for that cash to come rolling in, right?
Well, not quite!
The web is only a small part of the bigger picture. It has to be part of a larger marketing [...]

Sites that have many links both inwards and outwards generally rank very well in Google. The new Aurora site will have many links out, but could I ask all members who have their own websites to help us out and pop a link in there back to us.
Most of you probably already do this so [...]

Very quick post to remind you all to remember to choose an image for your homepage once you have uploaded them, otherwise your gallery will appear as normal but your homepage will be pictureless!
It’s easily done, log in and then choose the link that directs you to choose your homepage image. Your previously uploaded images [...]