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Open Source Data Management Tools

    When you are a small operator, money is everything. It’s no wonder open-source is so popular. Here is a collection of open-source utilities that may well be useful to keep in mind if you’re looking for low-no cost items. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3920996

    Use Outlook As an Autoresponder

      I was trying to think of a quick and easy way to get a bonus to people in return for them providing a review on one of my websites. I didn’t want to have to setup landing pages and thank you pages and all the rest because I already have them on my database list. Auntie Google to the rescue. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-email-messages-by-using-rules-50307363-0e79-4f6a-95c0-04b922a2ff13 or Very clear step-by-step instructions on how to set Outlook up to automatically deliver a message (and in my case an attachment) to people who send an email to a specific email address. I used a subject line based… Read More »Use Outlook As an Autoresponder

      webfolio, featured project

      Customising WEBFOLIO Theme – 1

        FEATURED PROJECT           Webfolio is a free theme for wordpress but the instructions are a little scant in places. As I find things out, I’m posting them here. To Change the words “featured project” in the slider on the front page: 1. Navigate to AppearanceEditor 2. Select “home.php” 3. Scroll down until you find the following line <div class=”featured”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/ico_star.png” alt=”Featured” /> FEATURED POST</div> 4. Change the words “FEATURED PROJECT” to whatever you want 5. Click ‘update file’ button and You’re Done Series : https://redhotinternetmarketing.com/blog/customising-webfolio-theme-1/ https://redhotinternetmarketing.com/blog/customising-webfolio-theme-2/ https://redhotinternetmarketing.com/blog/customising-webfolio-theme-3

        Free Icon Sets

          I love free. But I love great free even better. In searching for some icons for one of my projects I came across these sets which I’d like to share with you. 1. Scalable icons for socialmedia  -  http://icondock.com/free/vector-social-media-icons 2. The ever-popular fam fam sets -  http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/ Love your work, guys. Thanks for sharing! Enjoy, everyone.

          Get Joomla to Talk to MailChimp

            I have some websites built in Joomla.

            I use MailChimp for my emailing system.

            What I found was that Joomla doesn’t allow you to download the database of people who register on your site. So, in the past I have had to manually use a plugin (UserExport – free, no registration required) to extract the data and then import it into MailChimp. It worked. but it was a pain.

            Yesterday I discovered ChimpYourJoomla.  Love the name. More importantly, I love the plugin.

            After an easy install, in the usual Joomla way, when anyone registers on my site they are automatically added to the list in MailChimp. Brilliant. Wish I’d discovered this little tool earlier!

            There was an error message issue when I installed the plugin but after asking Andy at corePHP for any ideas on how to resolve it, he responded almost immediately with aRead More »Get Joomla to Talk to MailChimp

            How To Extract Email Addresses from Outlook

              My Outlook files and folders are out of control. I need to do some heavy duty pruning but it takes so long. More emails fill the bucket than I can prune! I figured there had to be a way to pullout all the email addresses I wanted to keep rather than having to go through each email and adding to the address book one by one. So, I went to the Big G to find an answer. All kinds of software and tools popped up and I recall trying a few of these unsuccessfully before. Then I came across this… Read More »How To Extract Email Addresses from Outlook