Pasting From Word – and why it isnt working

I have people asking me why some of thier posts are showing large gaps between lines, different fonts, different sizes and some times weird and wonderful symbols all over.

It’s because Microsoft Word is a web pretender and thinks it can write HTML code for websites.  So when you attempt to copy and paste, it pushes into the html section reams and reams of bloated useless code that ultimately affects your layout and your post.

Up until recently, the only way around that was to writing directly into wordpress.  Not an ideal solution, Wordpress has a dictionary, but it isnt the level of Microsoft’s Word.  Thankfully you can now do both, type away in Word, spell check etc then look for this button in the group of buttons above the enter post window.  Now you can paste your Word content in there and voila, no more symbols and mismatched type!

If you dont see the symbol above, look for this button  called the kitchen sink, click that, it drops down or hides all the buttons.

What this will achieve, is that you can bold, underline, italicise, add links, indent all within Word and it will come across intact.

You shouldnt use this to paste images, images should always be entered directly into Wordpress, however once you have the text done, adding images is the easy part.

Search engines are not the only way to get the word out

Good old fashioned word of mouth. Give people the ability to tell the world you exist.

The great thing about this particular script compared to some of the others, if that you can write your own sales pitch in the script that the person sending doesnt see, try it out, send it to yourself and see what I mean.

Also this is a self hosted form, which in laymans terms means no ad’s complete privacy, no pop ups.

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In house FTP? You’re doing it right actually.

I have this set up over at 2dragons. Rather than having people email me 10 megabyte files, I have them use this. I have a version of it running over on the support pages.

So, what is this? Its the same as yousend it or send this file, if you need people to send you files for what ever reason, larger than 4 meg is considered bad form. It can clog your email account and crash your email client if there are problems trying to get it. The way around that would be to use yousend it or sendthisfile or you could be posh and have your own!

My script works wonders in that you can have files sent to different people in your organisation, and if you dont have different people well then you can pretend that you do, and impress your clients. Or you have things send to your VA direct.

Its very customisable.

So for example, if you sent this for the design dept, a thank you will be emailed to you from “design” and the design teams email address.

Go play in the support area, just let me know that you dont actually want me to do anything with it!

Why do all new solo-prenuers & entreprenuers think they need shopping cart?

Nearly every new client I take on, that hasnt already got a data collection company in place, immediatly uses shopping cart, or asks me should I use shopping cart?

Maybe its the amount of affiliate links about to it, but I wonder why so many use it.  Its very expensive, for the cart function and the mass emailing function, its about $60/70 per month.  Most solo and entreprenuers sell products or services to people that know them.  The likelyhood of anyone “browsing” your site and adding random things to thier cart is unlikely, and unless you use a merchant account you end up going via paypal anyway, so its not for the professional look.

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You bought the domain name. So why are you using Gmail?

Really, the whole point of owning a domain name is for professionalism.  So you own the domain myname.com or myname.net and yet when you email people you are using myname@gmail.com.

Think about how you feel when you see that email address from someone else.  Are you impressed?  Or do you immediately think that its a “one man band” outfit that you shouldnt take seriously.

Maybe I’m an internet snob, but I go with the latter.

There isnt much of an excuse, most of the domains come with free email, so you can have at least onename@myname.com if not more.  And setting up?  Usually a peice of cake and if cake causes you problems, the help line will talk you through it.

The last argument for it comes back to SEO.

Ah that old chestnut!  You should be using Outlook or Outlook Express, you should have a signature attached to it and that signature should include your domain name and you correct email for that domain.   Why?  Cos when you email people your brand or your name should follow you.  The more you get your name and message out there in the same format, the more will remember.

When you email a response to a list or a group from your email, it should include the above signature, so that your domain name gets on as many reputable sites as possible, these all count as backlinks.

So, why are you using Gmail?

SEO – What does it really mean?

I dont do Search Engine Optimisation.

I can do it, but I wont.

Im actually pretty good at it, but it is not something you can just “pop into”  it is a constant organic growth that needs to be monitored and tweaked and compared with stats.

People bandy the phrase “I need some SEO on my site”  like thats all that matters.  We just add some code and voila!  Google loves you!

For starters, let me ask you the first simple question before you even attempt to delve into the murky pond that is optimisation.

What phrase or keyword are you aiming for?

Nine out of ten of you are already stumped.

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