Monday 8 July 2013

Computers and things

My new PC is now up and running, I have rescued a lot of things from the old one including the layout and software which I use for my website so my for sale bears will be located back on the website.  I prefer to keep the business side of bears on the main website and the blog for more rambling thoughts about bear matters and more personal things.

Just a reminder my website is www.hugoshouse.com

I am also now investigating ways of handling my mailing list including a service called Mail Chimp.  I try to make sure my updates reach everybody but I know that some people have very tight filtering either on their computers or at their web servers.  Almost very time I send out an update i get at least one complaint a few days later from someone who has visited the website and realised they didn't get an update message; It is very difficult to cover every eventuality, Mail Chimp is widely used and accepted but it is still possible that over jealous mail filters will reject my messages.

My normal business mail address is gregory@hugoshouse.com but I also use a g.mail account, so if you see mail from grufflybear@g.mail that is also a genuine message.  I am testing the Mail Chimp system and it will produce a message addressed individually and show me as the sender.


2 comments:

  1. I'm so glad you are up and running again. It is very frustrating when computers go bust.
    Hugs

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  2. I'm also glad you're back in action with a new PC, Gregory. It must be the season for it - our old faithful has just given up the ghost! So we're now on the same journey as you were. Thankfully, I still have a little Mac laptop functioning, so hence this comment.
    Happy computing to you!
    Kayzy

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