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Tag Archives: email
Introducing Cac the Proofreader and her WORD WAR
Cac The Proofreader here, with Hawk Eyes Proofreading!
This marks the beginning of my WORD WAR column. Each week (sometimes twice) I will put up common mistakes I consistently run across while proofreading your projects and thought maybe you would like to head them off before they make it into someone else’s hands…or eyes! After all, the more corrections we proofreaders make, the longer it takes us, and the more dollars it costs you, the author. That is NOT our goal! Our goal (or at least mine!) is to make you look good…NO…make you look GREAT! This one is quite simple: ACCEPT vs. EXCEPT.
ACCEPT is to receive something {perhaps a gift} or regard it as proper {accept the idea}. Example: I accept the fact that I am a big word nerd.
EXCEPT something is to exclude it or leave it out. Example: I like them all except that one.
If you have a question about what I’m posting, please don’t hesitate to contact me. OR…if you have a WORD WAR of your own you’d like me to address, simply email me and I will add it to my rapidly growing list.
I’m Cac The Proofreader, and I’m at: cac@hawkeyesproofreading.com. The web address is: hawkeyesproofreading.com 833.I.PROOF.U/833.477.6638. The Hawk Eyes Proofreading Facebook page is in the process of being rebuilt. In the meantime, you can go to my personal page: Cathy Bozof Stiner.
There are many more WORD WARS contained there as well as a look-see as to who I am and what I’m all about.
ENJOY!!!
How To: Find and Set up Share Tabs on WordPress
Yes I know there are tutorial for WordPress about how to use and improve your websites & blogs (especially for beginners. The tutorials are brilliant and informative. It is a great place to start your journey. Here is a tutorial link to various things you may want to learn
http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/wp-tutorials/
However. I keep getting asked how to do various things on wordpress, or I assist where I can depending on what I know. Like everyone else I am still learning due to technology changing and updating.
This post is about Share Tabs…How I sorted mine out prior to knowing about wpbeginner.
SHARE TABS
Everything you do on your wordpress site starts with your HOME PAGE – Whatever name you call it. Mine is PACKAGES. This is also called your LANDING PAGE so it needs to be impressive.
Up on the top left hand side you can see the words MY SITES. Click on this and it will open a panel on the left side as shown below.
This is what you will find. Here you can check your Stats, look over your Site Pages, Customize and so much more.
Scroll down to the bottom of this bar and you will find WP ADMIN. Click on this and it will take you to another page. Also note on the main page you can see all my share tabs for viewers to use.
This time you will find yourself on your DASHBOARD – Behind the scenes of your website where only you and those you give permission to can visit. Once you get to this page, you can do all the different things you wish to show on your website. Trial and error is part of the learning curve.
Click on SETTINGS and a new small black box will appear.
This time we want SHARING so we can sort out the tab we wish to make available to our visitors.
The next three slides show you what is available to use and how to move the tabs so they show up where you wish them too. Drag and drop, choose the style and choose where you wish them to show
DON’T FORGET THE REBLOG TAB. THIS IS HOW YOU CAN EXTEND YOUR REACH AND GET MORE FOLLOWERS.
IF YOU WISH ANY OTHER QUICK TUTORIALS TELL ME WHICH ONES AND I’LL GIVE IT A GO.
BOARDER CONTROL FOR EMAIL…REALLY!
Now my issue was just with those clients and friends who had XTRA ISP Accounts. The email was stopped at the border and rejected. I suppose it is a bit like people being told they aren’t fit to enter a certain country.
Anyway, this client is now sorted. All my others – I have since noticed – still reject at the border. Some clients have luckily had other email addresses they could use like Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. Others haven’t so until I can get this sorted yet again…it looks like info sharing will be on Facebook, which isn’t always ideal.
Yesterday I replied to another client with her own personalised email address. It was fine. Checking emails today I found another message and replied. Damn it – it was rejected as SPAM. What the heck is going on.
The response was:
550 This message contains a known spam email address.
My next step is contacting the SPAM People and hopefully I’ll be able to clear my email address from their SPAM list etc. Fingers crossed.
A Lesson Learnt – SAVE YOUR FINAL MANUSCRIPT
Save Your FINAL Manuscript
Yeah I know we’ve all heard this one before! However, it is strange we all still loose full or parts of manuscripts. Yes I have done it as well. This time I was ready to publish, book cover done and do you think I could find the whole manuscript…NO
DAMN! I am so mad with myself. I know why this happened, I even know when it happened. Right at the end of January 2016 when I accidentally wiped my computer. Yeah, I hear you all saying “DUH.” Problem is I didn’t realise until it was to late. How can this be, you may ask. It’s called Windows 10 and my computer is a Lenovo. That’s my excuse anyway. In reality it is technology which caught me out.
In the past when you have needed to go back to factory settings or find a spot to jump to in time on you computer – you did just that. I’m not sure if it is just Lenovo or if Windows 10 contributed as well. Anyway it’s not called Factory Settings anymore…NO, aha…not this time. So yes I accidentally wiped everything. HOWEVER I’M GOOD...Well so I thought.
I save my manuscripts in dropbox, onedrive some in google drive, send them to friends via email and chat or just email them to myself. YAY ME. Off I went asking all my wonderful friends to send me copies back. Which of course they did. The rest of my stuff was on back up Memory Sticks or in emails. So very happy. Well that is until the day before Valentine’s Day
Opening a manuscript and found the last part missing – DAMN. It was an older version. Never mind i’ll have to re-write it again and publish later. BAH HUMBUG. Then I noted another was missing the last bit too, not that it worried me since this particular novel hasn’t been finished yet. Today!!
Today I found my latest work to be published…and nearly cried. SOB. Not only was the majority of it missing, all I had was a short story instead of a novella and it was one of the few books…well never mind. It was a good story and I doubt I can re-write it as good as it was.
So what happened to them. It’s simple I never saved a FINAL COPY of the manuscript on drop box, onedrive or google drive. No copies on my memory stick or emails. So here I am sending out a warning to you all.