Marketing Tutorial: Create Custom Email Templates in Apple Mail
As part of your marketing efforts, consider creating a custom email template to use with Apple’s Mail program.
Antonym for the Suck Fairy?
by Kathy Davie Ran across an interesting article at TOR about the Suck Fairy by Jo Walton. It seems the Suck Fairy bestows a fatal nongift when one rereads a book previously enjoyed and you discover upon the reread that this book actually sucks…! Now, I have had a few of those. And I’ve also had a few that were the reverse. The book you read and thought it sucked but then somehow you ended up reading it again…in my case, because I’ve forgotten I had previously read it or I somehow read its sibling in the series queue and wanted to read the whole series “in situ” so to speak. So, what is the antonym for Suck Fairy? Enlightenment Fairy? No, too intellectually positive. The obvious is the UnSuck Fairy but so very unpoetic. Possibly the Ah-Hah Fairy…? Or, even the Huh? Fairy. Maybe the Well-Whadda-Ya-Know Fairy… I dunno…what do you think??
Creating a custom email message for clients to send themselves
In working on a client’s mobile website, I needed to make the mobile viewer aware of the coupon available (from the client). Unfortunately, they can’t print the coupon from a mobile phone and I certainly didn’t want to lose this opportunity to promote the client so I needed the viewer to be able to remind him/herself. Voila! Or is that eureka!?! If the viewer could click an image link which would then create an email message which the viewer could send to him/herself. And, wanting to make this process as painless for the viewer as possible, I really, really wanted to include the URL for the promotions page and a message reminding the viewer why they were (had?) sent this message to themselves. Dave Taylor had a great suggestion to deal with this little marketing issue. First, create a standard mailto link: <a href=”mailto: > </a> I’m not adding in a mailto address as I want the viewer to fill in with their own address Add a subject so the viewer doesn’t think it’s junk mail <a href=”mailto: ?Subject=My Promotions coupon at DR. PLUMBER”> </a> Well, if I got this email I wouldn’t remember why I’d sent it, so we […]
BYOW: Shaped Text in iWeb
by Kathy Davie iWeb makes it easy to create shaped paragraphs using the Shapes tool. Double-click your choice of shape onto your webpage. Double-click inside the shape to add your text. Select the text and choose justify so the paragraph follows the shape’s perimeter. This is a good time to choose the color, style, weight and font of the text. The triangular text on the right uses a blank background with no stroke causing the text alone to show.
Writing: Feisty Women Characters
Feisty women characters about whom I’ve enjoyed reading.
BYOWebsite: Margins & Padding – How They Affect List Items
A visual on how margin-left and padding-left affects the distance from the edge of the page to the bullet and then to the start of the text in a line item in this BYOWebsite from KD Did It.
Book Review: Deborah and James Howe’s Bunnicula
BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn’t he a vampire?
Book Review: Todd McCaffrey’s Dragonheart
Dragons are falling sick, dying, all across Pern just as Thread is sighted. B’Nik and Lorana must find a solution to this plague or lose the planet.
Kittens Progress
having a fascinating journey with my two new kittens, Sascha and Brodie. Feral when I adopted them three months ago, it’s a surprise every day to watch their personalities develop and enjoy their increasing trust. Tonight was the second time Brodie felt brave enough to leap up into my lap. He’s been jealously watching Sascha clamber up for the past month but never quite comfortable enough to take the chance himself. Lord knows, I might eat him or…! As it is, I have so enjoyed the fact that they like me enough to follow me around the house as I move from room to room…