Credit cards! Wonderful, convienent, and vulnerable!
You go into a site, find
what you want, enter you
credit card number and
purchase the product.
Using the secure form
you feel SECURE in knowing
your card number is
going where is supposed to
be right?
Well, most of the time
that's true but anytime during
the transmission
your card info can be intercepted
by internet thieves
over the phone or cable line.
Merchants are aware
of this so they use encryption.
Without getting technical
encryption changes your
card number into a "code"
and is sent to the merchant
which has a program
to "decode" it.
The bottom line is that
supposedly any encrypted
information can only
be used by the merchants encryption
program.
WRONG!!!
The internet thieves
have powerful programs to break
ANY encryption code!
Even the government
is having problems with this!
The only thing we have
to our advantage is that
credit card companies
are very helpful when
it come to credit card
fraud. Call them up,
dispute a charge, find
out who stole your
card number (maybe),
and the charge to
your account is erased.
But, this takes time.
I can sum it up in
one word. HASSLE!!!
That's one reason I don't
accept credit cards.
Until they create an
encryption code that's around a
half a million bits
I'd rather use checks.
Takes a little longer,
but is much safer!
Despite this problem,
people still insist
on using them so in
the future I will make it
available.
A computer
geek, musician created this site. Me!!! My fingers are
very
nimble from playing guitar for 25 years so I decided to create
stuffed
animals I could display on the internet. Now I know that
some
of you ladies out there can out sew me hands down and
can
put together the most beautiful creations imaginable but that's
not
the point. I found that after I started this I actually enjoy it and
with
the ability to program websites, I can show these little critters
without
paying some idiot to design a site for me.
Which comes
to my next subject! Before I put this website
together I
visited at least 50 different sites containing
dolls, puppets,
stuffed animals, you name it. Half my
time was spent
trying to navigate thru these sites to
find their
products for sale. I couldn't believe all of the
garbage they
put on their pages! Buttons to press, links
to mess with,
ugly,ugly page design, etc...
By the time
you actually find their products you could
care less
about purchasing them! If this is a professional
design (and
it is) I don't want anything to do with it!
My pages are
a "Welcome page", a "Product page", and
an "About
page". PERIOD!!!
Imagine paying
someone $2000 to $5000 dollars for this!
I have the
ability to design a very professional site with
fancy templates,
java applets, etc. but I don't use them
(except
the simple ones used in previous pages) for
obvious reasons.
My first site was 15 MB. For those of
you not familiar
with the terminology that's a HUGE,
HUGE site!
My music website is around 4.5 MB (banner
links at the
bottom) and this one is around 1 MB. (Mega bite).
For those of
you on a shoestring budget (I understand
because I
am) and wish to sell your products on the
internet I
will offer my services at a fraction of
the cost.
I'll undercut ANYONES price! And I'll teach you
how to maintain
and update your site! All you need do is
e-mail me
and we can talk further.
I
hope you enjoyed your visit!
Come
back often!