Helen Bradley

Most of us are very familiar with surveys because we have completed them from time to time. We know how to fill them in and we have experienced both good and bad surveys — some are cumbersome to complete while others are very simple and straightforward. When it comes time to create your own surveys, […]

Your customers are the lifeblood of your business but just how well do you know them? If you know only their email addresses, it’s safe to say you could know them better. Admittedly you can contact them — but will they want to hear what you have to say? The more you know about your […]

Microsoft Excel is a mission-critical piece of software for small business, but creating basic charts that convey your data the way you want isn’t always easy. And given how busy most small business owners are, chances are you don’t have a lot of time to get the exact look you want. Fortunately, Helen Bradley knows […]

Establishing your first small business Web site might seem like a major undertaking. If you’re confused by terms like domain name, Web hosting service and SEO, it’s easy to think that paying a Web professional is the only way you’ll get the project done. But you don’t have to spend a lot of money or […]

Add multimedia magic — video, still images, narration — to your PowerPoint presentations so that you can stand out from the crowd. Helen Bradley’s tutorial at WinPlanet.com walks you through the process. Finding the Producer for PowerPoint 2007 Beta download is no mean feat.One of the best kept secrets related to PowerPoint 2007 is Producer […]

If you own Microsoft Publisher 2003 or later, you’re in luck. You can use the application to create an e-mail newsletter and then e-mail it to your customers from within the program, which makes the task much easier. In this article, I’ll explain how to create and send an e-mail newsletter in Publisher 2003. If […]

The Action Settings dialog shows the options for configuring hotspots on your images. (Click for larger image). When you’re creating a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed individually and not en mass, you can include features that you wouldn’t generally include in a regular PowerPoint presentation. For example, you could include an image with clickable hotspots […]

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who knows more about using Microsoft applications than Helen Bradley. Take a look at her Word 2007 indexing tutorial at WinPlanet.com. When you’re finishing a long document such as a report or thesis you’ll want to include an index to make it easier for your readers to find […]

Prepare your image in your graphics software and size it to the same height as your slide and a bit longer. (Click for larger image). One of the interesting but not so obvious things that you can do with an image in PowerPoint is to animate it as a slide background. While it’s not a […]

Over at Ecommerce-Guide.com, Helen Bradley demonstrates how using CSS can save you both time and aggravation when you want to make style changes to your Web site. What? You say your business doesn’t have an e-commerce component? That’s OK, CSS applies to non-e-commerce sites, too. When it’s time to design or redesign your shop site […]

Helen Bradley writes a lot about Web-site design at our sister site, Ecommerce-Guide.com. In this article, she discusses the importance consistency plays, and how you can actually lose customers if you don’t adhere to a few simple rules. If you’re designing a Web site, you need to understand and adhere to one iron-clad rule: consistency […]

Not all PowerPoint presentations are meant to be viewed in front of a large audience. Many presentations are designed for individual viewing at the user’s leisure. When you’re creating a single user PowerPoint presentation and when you need to gather information from that user you can do it using ActiveX controls. In this article, I’ll […]