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Treasure Coast Designs & Web Hosting
If you are looking to create your own website here are the 3 things you need and in this order:
1. Domain Name - $10 to $20 (preferably with an ICANN accredited registrar)
2. Web Hosting - Between $50 and $1,000 annually. Generally $100-$200 for most people.
3. Web Design - Between $100 and $10,000 annually. Generally $300-$500 for most people.
Please make sure you have a domain name registered with an ICANN accredited domain name registrar. Network Solutions or GoDaddy are good choices. Avoid web hosting or web design companies that want to register your domain name for you. Many stories can be found online about good people losing their domain names because of 3rd-rate web hosts trying to pass themselves off as registrars. Take control of your own domain name from the start and go with a reputable registrar, you'll save yourself a lot of time and energy in the long run.
Here is a current list of ICANN accredited registrars.
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HTML Website $300
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PHP Website - $500 USD
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• 3 pages designed by templating
• header graphic with company/personal logo
• footer graphic with TCD small footprint logo
• search engine friendly meta keywords
• designed with xhtml and css compliance
• time based maintenance fee for requested updates
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• 5 pages designed by templating
• universal header graphic with company/personal logo
(faster pages)
• universal footer graphic with TCD small footprint logo
(faster pages)
• search engine friendly meta keywords
• designed with xhtml and css compliance
• time based maintenance fee for requested updates
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Open-Source CMS Package - $700 USD
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Open-Source E-Commerce Package - $1000 USD
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• DragonflyCMS, Joomla, PHP-Nuke, Mambo, or Wordpress
• Installation, Setup, Customization
• customized universal template
• web interface for content administration
• administrative training
• content creation training
• template design with xhtml and css compliance
• task based maintenance fee
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• Zen-Cart Solution
• Installation, Setup, Customization
• up to 10 products upon initial setup
• web interface for product administration
• administrative training
• content creation training
• designed with xhtml and css compliance
• task based maintenance fee
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If you have any questions or would like a customized package quote please Contact Us
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Popular Online PayPal Fee Calculators Are Wrong |
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While developing our own in house PayPal module we came across an odd sort of mass miscalculation happening online.
PayPal Fee Calculators using incorrect calculations:
http://www.rolbe.com/paypal.htm
http://www.gregledet.net/ppfcm.html
The correct PayPal fee as of this date is (* 2.9% + .30).
The sites listed above use the calculation (+.30 * 2.9%) which of course yields a must different and ultimately incorrect result.
Because those 2 sites are the most visited sites for search keywords "PayPal Fee Calculator" they are unwittingly affecting thousands of people (or more). There are a lot of people sending more money than required for their purchases. This of course nets PayPal more money. Unfortunately there isn't any information online currently which describes the mistake (other than here).
This news is important to other web developers looking to make their own PayPal fee calculators and browsing for other general examples online. If one assumes the calculations on those sites are correct it makes PayPal look to be skimming money (more specifically each half or hundredth cent depending on decimal placement) from all customers. This is not the case and could potentially affect PayPal's reputation as a credible company. PayPal does indeed stick to the correct calculation they advertise.
To all developers out there; your calculations are correct and the sites listed above are incorrect. Don't waste precious time trying to debug your fee calculation scripts because you'll never solve the fictitious issue of the missing half cents. 
PayPal Fee Calculators using correct calculations:
http://thefeecalculator.com
http://alphapal.net/fee-calculator.php
The module we're building here will have a fee calculator built in and does use the correct calculation (as currently stipulated by PayPal). PayPal does change their rate from time to time so in the future developers will have to adjust their scripts accordingly.
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Posted by Devon Thursday, September 16, 2010 (06:14:36) |
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Major Webhosts upgrade to PHP5 and MySQL5 |
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Most web hosts have been slowly converting to PHP5 and MySQL5 over the course of the past 2 years. It seems as though most of the world is now running PHP5 and MySQL as the major hosts such as Site5 have completed the upgrades.
For those still running DragonflyCMS 9.1.2 with a newly upgraded PHP and MySQL you'll find many modules and functions will break especially the forums. 9.1.2 sites will still function but with a lot of errors which seem to come from nowhere. The culprit is when a webhost upgrades PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
For example, PHP functionality for dynamic signatures will break in PHP5 because ImgPNG compression is now 1-9 instead of 1-100. It's highly unlikely that anyone was using compession 9/100 with PHP4 because the image would be extremely degraded in quality. That's just one of many examples of code changes needed in PHP5. The above example does not affect DragonflyCMS directly but it's just an example of what can affect your code in making the PHP5/MySQL5 transition.
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Posted by Devon Monday, February 23, 2009 (07:55:24) |
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Vote for Ron Paul! |
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Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) for President
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
Treasure Coast Designs fully supports this candidate for President of the United States of America and hope you will too.
Here's an image that shows all of the meetup groups in Florida that support Ron Paul.

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Posted by Devon Tuesday, January 22, 2008 (09:06:57) |
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Cylinders of High Fructose Death |
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