How to Link a Custom Image to a PayPal Order Button
Posted 09-03-2008 at 09:54 PM by jjpmarketing
Now this post will show you exactly how to modify the code of a "PayPal Order Button", even if it is encrypted, to change the default PayPal "Buy It Now", to a custom image like "Click Here to Order".
These are the steps to accomplish that task:
STEP1: Create Your PayPal Button
These are the steps to accomplish that task:
STEP1: Create Your PayPal Button
- Login to your PayPal account.
- Click on Merchant Services.
- Click the Buy Now button.
- Type in your Product Name.
- Type in the Price.
- Select your Currency.
- Don't worry about which button is selected, because we are going to change this.
- Leave everything else set to the defaults for the purposes of this demonstration.
- Click the "Create Button Now" button.
- Your Buy Now button code has now been generated.
- Click the "Select All" button.
- Click the Right mouse button on the highlighted code.
- Click the Left mouse button on Copy.
- You can also use the key combination of "Ctrl + C" to accomplish this task.
- Open your HTML editor such as Notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver, NVU, etc.
- Open the HTML or PHP document that you want your Order Button placed on.
- Find the location in the document where you want the button placed.
- Move the cursor to that area.
- Click the Right Mouse button.
- Click the Left Mouse button on Paste.
- You can also use the key combination of "Ctrl + V" to accomplish this task.
- Now find the code: "<input type="image"".
- Change the "src=" value to match the location of the image you want to use to replace the PayPal Button.
- On the "alt" portion of the code mentioned, change it from the PayPal description to something like "Product Name Order Button".
- Replace the "Product Name" with the actual name of your product.
- This will help the SEO of the page.
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