Web Development Insight

The idea behind the PayPal verification seal is to provide a would-be PayPal customer verification that the PayPal account is in good standing. Click on the verification seal, login to PayPal, and find out the status of the account. The instructions on how to put the seal on a website and how to use it have been obfuscated at PayPal.

The friends at Yahoo group NetBusinessSuccess have figured out how to do this.

1. Download the PayPal seal and put a link to it on your web page.

2. Make the seal clickable to the following URL (change the email address to your PayPal email address)

<a href="http://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=abc@mydomain.com"></a>

3. The code should look similar to this:

<a href="http://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=abc@mydomain.com">
<img src="http://mydomain.com/images/pp-verification-seal.gif"
 alt="PayPal Verification Seal" width="100" height="100" /></a>

Note at this juncture that PayPal verification is only for United States accounts.

[addition 21 Feb 2007]
If you need to hide your email address from spambots here is a tool to do that:

Email Address Encoder

Doug

I have come to like Microsoft Expression Web…definitely better than FrontPage 2003. One feature I use is the compatibility report which checks the web page under construction against a standard, such as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Come to find out I posted a valid web page (XHTML 1.0 Strict) but when I checked it against W3C it failed. I’m hoping this will get fixed soon.

Doug