The Halloween Trick Was On Me!

Hi Friend :)

I am writing to you today because of the link that didn't work 
for the CheapWebTechs.com web site (http://CheapWebTechs.com) 
in the last email around Halloween.

I am sure that a company that does tech work doesn't look very
competent if the link in the email doesn't even work!

But let me explain what happened and that way the trick won't
be on you too, instead, you will get a treat. :)

I use get response for my mailing list service and ever since 
the upgrades -which does have an easier navigation and nifty 
templates and postcards - whenever you type in HTML links and 
then do a spell check it looks at the link as if it were text 
(words) and when it re-shows the message after the spell 
check - when the little spell checking window closes - there 
is a very good chance that all of the links in your email 
message are broken!

If you look at what the link tried to link trough to (thanks 
to someone I talked to on the phone that told me what happened 
when they had tried just today) there is a "%20" in the middle 
between 2 instances of the URL in a row.

[I don't know if you are aware or not, but the %20 is the code 
version of a "space" and when you write an HTML link, you 
actually write the URL twice with some code around it that 
makes it a link.. ]

So what the spell checker did was turn all the "<"and ">" and 
any spaces into code that stands for those letters and symbols 
and of course broke the link. (UHG!)

This is the third time it has happened to me and I apologize 
for any inconvenience. I knew that might happen from past 
experiences and forgot to re-check the links in the message 
before I sent it out and after doing the spell check.

I didn't realize what had happened as I was busy trying to 
finish packing getting ready for my move that was supposed to 
happen this last weekend. 

(Side note: Yes I said "was" supposed to happen As you know 
my luck has been a little off this year and as I was sitting 
in the apartment complex office signing the lease etc., the 
maintenance manager called and told the office lady (Vera) 
that the whole apartment was flooded!

The water heater had burst and then kept running trying to 
refill all night and so the whole apartment not just the area 
by the water heater was under water... another great story to 
tell the grand kids! You have to look at this kind of stuff 
this way or you would pull your hair out!)

I really do have a great service at CheapWebTechs.com and 
a very good discounted rate for you as my readers. I am not 
even advertising it anywhere else since it is limited in the 
number of memberships and I am giving you the chance to fill 
it up first!

I also would hope that you would understand that everyone 
makes a mistake now and then and give the site another look 
(Or a first look if you couldn't get there the 1st time!) at
http://CheapWebTechs.com

Thank you for reading this explanation / clarification / 
lesson and I am hoping that this will keep it from happening 
to you! :)

Your partner in publishing,

"Techie" Teri
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Message Added: November 13th, 2006 at 8:05 pm