Written: May 30, 2010

In the Fall of 2009 I upgraded from Windows Vista 64 bit to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and my laptop has been quite stable, that is until this morning. The first thing I do in the morning is run Outlook and to my horror it wouldn’t start, instead an ominous error dialog popped up:

Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the outlook window.

No need to fear because Google is here. A quick search brought me to this forum with the answer to fix it.

I just needed to type this cryptic command from my Start and Run menu:

It never ceases to amaze me at how really unstable the entire Microsoft empire of Operating System plus Applications really is. Because they have a virtual monopoly on the OS I have little choice but to use them in my daily routine.

Written: May 9, 2010

WordPress is a popular and flexible CMS plus blogging platform however it lacks a simple form to allow web visitors to communicate with you. Fortunately the WordPress developers created a platform that was extensible through something called Plug-ins. I found “Contact Form 7” was a popular and flexible plug-in and used it on a client site today.
Here’s the end result of a form on the WordPress page:

To get this layout you use short code, HTML and CSS:

The CSS to align the words on the left with equal spacing is:

You can even define what the email message looks like with the form contents:

If you learn a bit of HTML, short code and CSS then forms in WordPress will look good and function well.

One Response to “Forms in WordPress”

1. Jonhathon Smith says:

   August 13, 2011 at 10:18 am

   Hey thanks for your useful article,

   Reply

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