Here’s a funny and as a friend remarked, “So, that’s what I’ve been doing all along. Who knew?” But, I really do see the parallels. What about you? Leave a reply… Meditation in the Digital Age Sorry, I’d like to attribute this to the artist but I do not know who the talented, thoughtful person is. If you do, please let me know. Thanks.
Continue reading →Gmail has been rolling out a brand new inbox on both desktop and mobile, designed to help users stay organized and on top of their email. Gmail’s new Inbox separates email into five tabs: Primary – Person-to-person conversations and messages that don’t appear in other tabs. Social – Messages from social networks, media-sharing sites, online dating services, and other social websites. Promotions – Deals, offers, and other marketing emails. Updates – Personal, auto-generated updates including … Continue reading →
Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience – easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling – across a wide range of devices, from an over-sized desktop computer monitor, a laptop, a 10-inch tablet, a 7-inch tablet, or a 4-inch smartphone screen. A responsive website changes its appearance and layout based on the size of the screen the website … Continue reading →
In case you hadn’t noticed, Constant Contact recently added a new feature to easily insert tables in your e-newsletter. In the past, if you wanted to insert a table in an article block, you needed to know HTML code. But now, there’s a table icon on the toolbar, and you can create a table just like you would if you were using Microsoft® Word. Ideas for using a table? Use a table to insert multiple … Continue reading →
Social media is BIG these days, both personally and professionally. Did you know that a Constant Contact e-newsletter can be easily shared directly with friends and colleagues on social networks? As a reader, next time you receive a Constant Contact e-newsletter, look for the Social Share bar towards the top – it’s as easy as clicking a button! If you’re the one sending the e-newsletter, make sure to
Continue reading →As The Computer Spirit and facilitator of the Websites and Coffee workshops, I hear client horror stories – much too often – of working with web designers and developers. You’ve probably heard them too, or worse, experienced them. Ya know, like the web guy who thought he knew everything, was arrogant enough to express it, then fired you, leaving you without any user info about your website so you could move forward. Or, the web … Continue reading →
To avoid adding your logo, colors, and fonts every time you want to send an e-newsletter, in Constant Contact you can create a Master template. A Master template is an email you brand without adding content. Then, you create your new emails from copies of your branded Master template to save time. But, let’s face it, the look can eventually get stale. Constant Contact offers more than 400 HTML email templates to choose from – … Continue reading →
This is a summary of an article written by Martin Lieberman, Constant Contact Managing Editor. Read the full article at Constant Contact’s Learning Center. In these days of increasingly more emails in one’s Inbox, competition for them being read is at an all-time high. You can have the greatest, most relevant content in your emails, but if no one opens them, then it all goes to waste. Here are five ways to ensure that your … Continue reading →
You’re always looking for new ways to build your list right? Well now you can build it anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device. Go Mobile with Text-to-Join, a fast, easy, and free way to grow your Constant Contact contact list. Just sign-up, get your own personal keyword, then share it everywhere. It allows folks to easily send you their email addresses via text. After that, you’re set – you can promote through print ads, signs … Continue reading →
Since there are so many WordPress themes available and it’s so easy to change them, it’s tempting to jump right in and start searching for the “perfect theme.” However, because there are so many themes, and so many different types of themes, searching for one – while fun – eats up a lot of one’s time. And, soon you realize that you don’t understand much of the language being used, i.e., frameworks, child themes, CMS … Continue reading →