The Jazzy Forms WordPress plugin will create an online interface to send an email to a specific person, or will generate a simple calculation from inputted parameters. For example, the Jazzy Form below sends an email with the displayed text, to the person and email of your choice – what you see below is a […]
Create a Custom Facebook Audience for your Website! The audience consists of visitors to your website who are also on Facebook – this audience is set up so that you can target these individuals in a Facebook ad (see below). The audience is created by adding a Facebook pixel (code) to the header of your website, using the Custom […]
WooCommerce offers a stable and multi-faceted platform for eCommerce applications. Hundreds of plugins and customizations are available. Here are some of my favorites (i.e., those I find useful!). I have installed WooCommerce both as an online store, as well as a registration system for a seminar. As a side note, most of the official Woocommerce plugins […]
The membership directory described below was created for a small organization, so that members could share contact information. Here were some of the concerns and methods. Directory Access First, the directory must be visible to members only. This can be achieved either with a password-protected page, or a page that is visible only to logged-in WordPress Users. […]
Email clients display emails in a variety of formats — Gmail, Thunderbird, AOL, Juno … they all display emails differently. Here are some tools for checking the compatibility of an email newsletter on different clients. First, most newsletters can be sent in both HTML and Plain Text formats. Visual editors generally use HTML formatting. Mailchimp […]
GIMP is an open-source Photoshop-alternate image manipulation program. I use two of its capabilities quite often: extracting an image (such as a face) from a background, and fading out part of an image. To extract the image from background, the Wiki article, How to Extract an Image in GIMP is excellent. For fading images, try the following method posted by Tim […]
The Local Calendar for Nederland, CO, is posted and maintained by Gail Eddy (?) of Geek for Hire. This is a great resource! The Mountain Ear Calendar for Nederland is also comprehensive and up to date. [jbox color=’green’] Also, click here for Nederland Colorado Facebook Groups![/jbox] For a full page calendar,click here (to create your own calendar, […]
How can you host an image on a secure server, as required for example by Paypal, when setting up a personalized business configuration? Dropbox provides an obvious solution, because you can quickly generate a link to share any of your Dropbox documents (for more on Dropbox, see Dropbox – File Synchronization on Multiple Computers). If […]
The search for instructional videos is made easier using a Google custom search engine! Sometimes, the best way to search is with Google, using a site-specific query in Google, e.g., “marketing:site.com” In other cases, it’s best to use the search engine on the site. Here are some examples, using the search query for ‘marketing’. Try […]
Hashtags–you gotta love ’em … here are the results of a recent foray into the world of social media hashtags, which are used on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and many other platforms! The tools mentioned below are basic (and free). But first, if you haven’t watched Jimmy Fallon’s and Justin Timberlake’s take on hashtags, …. […]