ADVANCED ACCESS July 2001 Newsletter

July 2001 Newsletter

I would rather have been a tall sunflower - living in a country garden
Lifting a golden-brown face to the summer, rain-washed and dew-misted,
And watching night after night, the clear silent processionals of stars.
- Carl Sandburg

Format your OWN About Page with NEW PAGE Manager !

You ASKED for it….YOU GOT IT! Introducing NEW PAGE Manager. With PAGE Manager, you can really SPICE UP the "About You Page" in your website. Best of all…YOU control the look, content, and layout with our easy-to-use program.

You DON'T have to be a "COMPUTER NERD" to use PAGE Manager….

With PAGE Manager, you can QUICKLY and EASILY add the following fabulous features to your About Page - through your Virtual Office:

Paragraphs of text, in ANY COLOR under the rainbow, with 4 font style selections, 7 font size choices, bold, italics, underlining, alignment options, and MORE.
Add a Photo (or Photos!) Now you can add an image ANYWHERE in your page…AND you can choose the SIZE, WIDTH, and ALIGNMENT (left, center, right) for your image at the same time. Also, you can add your photo WITHIN your paragraph of text.
Add a Bullet Point. You have a choice of 3 bullet point styles, and can also choose the COLOR, the position, font size, style, and text enhancements for your bullet points.
Add a Hyperlink. Add a link to any site on the Internet quickly and easily with PAGE Manager. Again, you can control the size of the text, the color, alignment, and text enhancements with our easy program.
Page Formatting Options. You can add a space between text, paragraphs or images, or a horizontal line with this option. Your horizontal line can be as long or short, wide or thin as you desire.
Change the Background Color of your page. Choose between any COLOR under the rainbow, OR you can choose a background IMAGE for your page.
Change the Footer information on your page. If you would like to EDIT and CHANGE the address, phone number, email address, and logo/image you display at the bottom of your page, you can do so with the click of a mouse.

THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES for the use of new PAGE Manager. Many of our clients have requested the ability to include a monthly or quarterly NEWSLETTER in their site that is customizable - complete with images, enhanced text, hyperlinks, and more. NOW you can do that and MUCH MORE with PAGE Manager.

IT'S HERE AND IT'S FREE! PAGE Manager is now available, and can be substituted for your existing "About Page" (or any other page) in your site at no charge with our compliments - simply e-mail your Account Executive to set it up for you, and we'll be glad to add it to your website.

You can have MORE than one PAGE Manager in your Virtual Office if you desire. For example, if you would like to use PAGE Manager for your 'About Page,' and also add a customizable Newsletter, or 'Neighborhood News' with PAGE Manager, just let us know. After the first PAGE Manager is added, subsequent PAGE Manager accounts in the same website cost $50.00 per page (a one-time fee.)

We wish you great success with the new PAGE Manager program.

Time-Saving "Computer" Tips You'll Love
by Guest Realtor®/Author (and ADVANCED ACCESS client:) Debbie Ferrari

1. Using "Cut" vs. "Delete"

When deleting something from a document or in-progress e-mail message, never use "delete" to delete a segment of text.

Instead, highlight the segment, then right click on the highlighted segment, and choose "Cut" instead of "Delete." Why? While "Cut" DOES delete the item, it also temporarily SAVES the item to your mouse (your clipboard).

Thus, should you decide that you removed the segment in error, all is not lost. You simply place your cursor back where the item WAS, do a right-click, then click on "Paste" from the dropdown menu. The segment magically RE-appears where it was!! Or, you can put it anywhere else.

2. Best Search Engines to Use?

Which Search Engines Deliver the Best Results:

Today, there are primarily two types of search engines:
a. Ones on which people bid money to have their site show up higher in search results.
b. Ones that find sites based mostly on how many OTHER sites have links pointing TO that site.
(The idea here being that if a site is an important enough resource, many other sites will direct people TO it, thus it must be worthwhile.)

So, to find companies, use www.goto.com

To find information, use www.google.com
(Each is the proven leader in its own category)

3. Avoiding Losing Partially-Completed e-mail Messages

Ever get mostly done with an e-mail message only to have your e-mail program, or entire computer, freeze up? You try everything, but finally you see that nothing is going to let you finish that e-mail. You'll have to start all over, trying to recall perhaps several pages.

There's a better way. Anytime you see that your e-mail message is exceeding 500 words, STOP! Highlight and copy what you've done so far and then open a Word document. Give it a name, then SAVE it to a new folder called "DeleteSoon."

Then, paste what you've written so far on the e-mail into the Word doc. When you finish writing the rest of that message, go back and delete the portion that you left in your uncompleted e-mail box. Then paste in the entire contents of your Word doc.

Why? Because you can periodically SAVE what you're typing in your Word doc as you go along so that it will not be lost.
(Or, you can even set Word to SAVE every minute automatically if you want.)

Also, word processing programs are hugely more stable and less likely to crash than fickle e-mail programs. Follow these simple steps and you will rarely be frustrated again by losing data to frozen e-mail programs.

Have YOU got a great computer or Internet tip for Realtors®? If so, please e-mail it to us. If we just love it and you've written it clearly and concisely, we'll likely run it in this newsletter.

Beautiful New Images for ListNOW

To accommodate our valued clients across the country, ADVANCED ACCESS is constantly offering more selections for graphics in websites. Our clients have offered a GREAT response to our new banners in our ListNOW v3.0 Database. We have also had some fabulous suggestions from some of our clients about new images to add to our current selection. Here are a few new banners we've added:

If you have any suggestions for banner graphics, please don't hesitate to contact your Account Executive by e-mail and we will make every effort to take your suggestion into consideration.

Exciting NEW Banner Graphics for Starter Sites

Our creative and talented designers have been busy this summer, adding loads of new graphic collages to our repertoire of choices for the Starter Site banner. The graphics have been organized by State and Area. Here are a few examples…

Employee News: Wedding Bells Ring for Tim McCarty

Tim McCarty, our friendly and efficient Account Executive, is marrying his beautiful fiancée Sarah Greeno on July 28th. (Sarah is also the sister of Aaron Greeno in our Accounting Department.) Tim and Sarah met at Anaheim Vineyard Church, and have known each other for many years. They first caught each other's eye at a church home group, and started dating. From the beginning Tim and Sarah knew that they would one day be married, and a mere 8 months after they started dating, Tim proposed and to his delight, Sarah accepted. =)

Sarah is an accomplished singer who just completed her first album - a Vineyard Worship Album. She attends California State University at Fullerton with a major in English. Tim, of course, is continuing his education in web design and marketing with ADVANCED ACCESS, and we're thrilled to have him on our team. In the future, Sarah and Tim plan to write music, travel the world, and most importantly, to lead a happy and fruitful life.

We wish them both best wishes for love and happiness in their marriage.

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