Word Processing Programs

When publishing your villa online or posting articles on our Villas sites, you should be careful about making sure that your information is presented in a professional format. One of the biggest mistakes any online publisher makes is posting content that is ill-formatted or riddled with spelling errors.

Making sure that your text is spelled properly will help your efforts on two major fronts. First of all, it will prove to your potential clients that you are thorough and careful. Secondly, it will help boost the likelihood that search engines like Google will take your page seriously.

It is good practice to write your content in a Word Processor before you even come to a page to fill out with information. Doing so will help you avoid spelling errors because most decent word processing programs will highlight errors. Microsoft Word is one popular program that will work well for you. Microsoft Word, however, can cost hundreds of dollars. Open Office is another popular and powerful word processor that is free.

Another major reason you should write out your content in your villa or article forms before you even get to those forms is that there is an inactivity limit that, if exceeded, will log you out. If you do not go from one internal page to another in-site page or submit a form for a length of time around 15 minutes, the cookie identifying you as logged in will expire. If that happens, you will be logged out, meaning you have to log back in to post your information. So if you are trying to fill out a bunch of information on the site forms and take too much time (because you are being meticulous) you may submit and find you lost your information because of logout--which is extremely frustrating.

A free and effective Word Processor is Open Office (www.openoffice.org). This program is free and has powerful writing tools for those who don’t want to pay for the program.