Anyone who has e-mailed in the last 24 hours.. please be patient, I’ve migrated to Thunderbird from Outlook and am playing e-mail ping pong! Normalcy by Wed. afternoon, I promise!
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I hope you enjoy using Thunderbird, I switched to it a little while back. My Outlook software kicked me out a few months ago by insisting that “Microsoft Office (…) has not been installed for the current user”, very strange as it had been running fine for months.
I tried a few fixes but couldn’t get it to work again except by setting up another user account on my PC.
Make sure you add the “Lightning” calendar, also the “Provider For Google calendar” synch tool if you use the big G calendar online.
Thanks Stevie – so far I’m really liking Thunderbird alot. It came with Sunbird – - is that better/worse than Lightning for a calendar system, do you know?
I don’t use the big “G” tools online as much as possible.. only for analytics and adsense. Call me paranoid, but I don’t trust them with things like my email / my calendar, etc. :-b
As far as I can tell they are pretty much one and the same thing, I think Lightning is Sunbird integrated with Thunderbird rather than a stand alone. Could be wrong though, wouldn’t be the first time. :”>
Also, as an aside, Amazon delivered your book to me last night, I hope to get to grips with it over the weekend.
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I’ve been using Thunderbird for years! It just makes life easier. I can’t wait for them to get the it integrated with the calendar and them make it so that my Palm Treo can sync with it . . . some day . . .
(» Read Lindsey’s last blog post..She’s finally able to rest . . .)
I’m loving it so far… no problems and it’s very sleek, clean and easy!
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for the great xMark theme. I’m new to blogging and not sure how to manage the headers. How do I go about changing the header image on the xMark theme?
Thanks in advance!
Dave
To: Lisa Sabin-Wilson
From : Bruce Gaston
Hello. I am currently in the stages of planning an environmental conservation website (not a blog) with my own personal flavors and twists to hopefully getting people to live cleaner, greener, less wasteful lives. I have not named it or even started actual work on it yet. Rather, I am in the pre-learning, homework part before the “test” of actually driving a site happens.
I have read your wonderful book on WordPress (for dummies) and have found it to be a valuable resource for beginners on many subjects. However, if there is such a thing, I am not just a beginner, but less. I was not computer savvy but over the years, have learned to operate computers with practically no problems. But applying “sister “ knowledge or similar know-how to actually driving a website, since it involves more than just basic computer knowledge, is something else.
I think I want to go with WordPress as a CMS but will need a resource for even more fundamental things such as how to do internal linking just to name one example. Believe it or not, I don’t even know how to do internal linking. I have surfed the web for information and while I have looked extensively, nothing seems to come up with basic info (and practice examples, if possible). While I have not exhausted every last resource attempt, I have tried. So, I thought I would cut to the chase and ask an expert to point me to information that is at my level and for what I want to do.
A good analogy would be ….it is great to know that tying ones shoes makes traveling better and will take you all kind of places, and how to gain from it, etc, but still, one needs to actually know how to tie the laces. It is that functional part, the rock-bottom driving-the-car part that I am having trouble finding information on. On the subject of linking (specifically internal linking for static pages and specifically the linking to particular portions and places of those pages, not just at the tops), resources aren’t teaching the bottom-line, step-by-step process. To further illustrate, I have seen a few dashboard examples of hypothetical wordpress websites, but with little or no instructions on how to work the thing, like examples on linking, or a walk-through on some of the toolbar icons (those different than general computers such as link and unlink…the “chains”) functions and capacities and actually how to use them.
I guess one of my fears is that if I make mistakes that make the site look bad or hard to use, then I also won’t know how to correct the problems and in which the “undo” button unfortunately doesn’t work for all blunders.
Your book did a great job of helping us to (blogwise) link to other sites. Nothing on internal linking on static pages using WordPress as a CMS. If I am wrong, please point me to the pages in the book. It is possible that I got lost, overwhelmed, or whatever, when reading that part. Assuming one can always enter the full URL et al, even to their own site—just different pages, surely there has got to be a better way. Then, the question comes up where…where does such href….. go…what /where does one actually put that code in on the dashboard edit pages of static pages? If indeed, the chain icons on the wordpress toolbar are the way to go even for internal linking, then is there a resource to teach me how to click and function with those toolbar icons?
Again, I do not want to make mistakes that I also do not know how to correct. I have obtained quotes from local web designers on the cost of them setting up a wordpress site for me almost turn-key. But when they hear I want to get coached about how to actually drive the site successfully (operate all the bells and whistles) they start squirming and end up saying it will cost me a bunch more for that kind of training—something I do not think is fair at all since wordpress is free. This brings me to a final point.
I have viewed and perused the wordpress codex forums, documents, etc, and still haven’t found them useful. The linking issue seems to be a bit of a hard spot or abstract, foggy sort of thing for me. If I can solve my issue then I will be on my way to helping save a cleaner earth for us all.
Can you help me. Please point me to another resource…one that is a step-by-step, how-to guide on things actually driving the dashboard or “car”.