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cForms II
cForms II cForms II is a nice blend of drag and drop design with parametric design. You can assign a very good range of values to various field and form design parameters including the ability to assign variable information such as user name, form name, and email to any field’s default value. There is a…
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Custom Contact Forms The Custom Contact Forms plugin has a lot of settings for you to modify. It is a very parametric driven forms generator with no drag and drop that I could find. It does appear to allow you control over just about every aspect of the forms appearance, and for those of you…
Read MoreForm 7
Form 7 This is an extremely popular forms plugin for WordPress, so I thought I would give it a try. The thing is, my initial impression was so bad that I really didn’t delve into it very deep. I was looking for a plugin that could be used by casual WordPress administrators; unfortunately Form 7…
Read MoreDifferences Between Outlook and Windows Live Mail
Ok, Microsoft has two major mail clients – the kind that you run in Windows rather than access from the web using a browser. I’ve often wondered if the free mail client that comes with Windows Live services, Windows Live Mail (WLM), could replace the onerous Outlook Mail that comes with Microsoft Office. Bottom line: …
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Great backup plugin service for WordPress If you’ve ever been dieing to backup your WordPress blog…. WAIT!! I guess nobody ever puts that on the top of their wants list, so let me start over. If you’ve ever felt the need to backup your WordPress blog, I’ve got a great service for you. It’s called MyRepono and…
Read MoreFavorite WordPress Plugins
Here’s a list of my favorite WordPress Plugins that I use in my Web Marketing Business. Plugin Comment Quick Page/Post Redirect Great little plugin that makes it very simple to manage redirections… much simpler than going the DNS and making the changes there. Category Checklist Tree Fixes the annoying behavior of WordPress breaking the category…
Read MoreConfiguring MailChimp Auto-responder for Income Infuser
The Mailchimp auto-responder will work with Income Infuser, but it has to have a specific configuration. For the most part everything works just fine between the two of them if you just pay attention to the naming of the variables and understand the way MailChimp treats variables. First, MailChimp delimits field names with special character…
Read MoreUnzipping the Income Infuser Install Package
There is a step during the installation where you have to extract the Income Infuser ver x.x file on your server. There are a couple of things to note here: The Income Infuser zip file should be placed into the root folder of the domain you are installing it on. For example, if your domain…
Read MoreWindows Live Domain Suspended
I use Windows Live to manage the email for my domain, NormSash.com. But one day after making some DNS changes I noticed the warning Service Suspended in my Live Domain Admin screen.  I modified the DNS MX records per the instructions at Windows Live Help, but when I perform a DNS lookup for the MX…
Read MoreWindows Live Writer Fails to Download and Update Theme
I was having problems with Windows Live Writer being able to update the theme. I tried almost everything I could think of: changing to/from static pages, performing a quick post then immediate update, deleting the account and setting it up again, etc.  Nothing I tried seemed to work. As I ware browsing the internet for…
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