I am interested in selling music online on my website (mainly for fun i don't expect a huge money income for this) and was wondering if anybody knows a good way to do this.  I've look at yahoo small business and google small business but neither says anything about online downloading of products.  If anybody could point me in a direction to get started, that would be great. 

Another question i just thought of.......I'm buying a new sound card for VDL2 and want to make sure i can use it to do the ";record what you hear"; type of recordings so i can record my music off SIB4. 

Thanks,
Zach

Hi Zach,

My day job is that of a Senior Web Developer so I'll try to help you out. Probably the easiest way to sell items on a website right now is either through PayPal or the new Google Checkout. You set up an account and then go through a wizard to generate ";add to Cart"; HTML code you place on your website. Here's the two sites:

[url]http://checkout.google.com/seller/integrate_buynow.html[/url]
[url=http://www.paypal.com]www.paypal.com[/url]

As for the downloadable music, the guys here at Tapspace use a PDF with a digital signature (if I remember right). You could do the same thing, you just need to get the software. I would say Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro, but the Tapspace guys are better ones to answer that area.


Adobe Digital Signatures
[url]http://www.adobe.com/security/digsig.html[/url]


Hope that helps,

Ryan Kime

Zach,

Ryan seems to have gotten you the 411 on the web stuff.  As for the sound card, just do a search in the Tapspace forums for sound card and you will find a few posts telling you all you need to know about them.  To be honest, checking the Tapspace FAQ site might not be a bad move either.  Hope this helps!!!

Thanks guys for the answers.  I've had a pay pal account for a little under a month now, but I am having trouble figuring out how to integrate it with my site.  I'll do a little more research on pay pal's website.  The Digital Signature for PDF files is definately something i'll check out.

As for the sound card, I guess i should have searched the forum and FAQs first, but the question just popped into my head and out my fingers.  We all know how that can be. 

-Zach

Zach,

No sweat my man!  No sweat!