Europe Calls, and America Answers

OK, finally; I made it! I was trying to finish writing this essay before the end of October, and here we are, already in the last week of the month. Time sure flies!

I wanted to tell you all about the EUROCALL Review, since they chose my site, Inspiration Lane, as their Recommended Website. (Thank you, EUROCALL!) And, I have indeed started reading more and more of their newsletter. But, to tell you the truth, I just don’t feel ready yet to summarize all I’m learning. Consequently, look for that topic in an upcoming essay.

As for this essay, I’ll simply say: I truly love how the EUROCALL Review included my site. Specifically, I think it’s great how they used a substantial sized “screen dump” or “screen shot” of the site for a visual focus, and then followed it with appropriate text. I believe a visual always helps a reader understand what you're talking about. (So, if you have the space, include a picture!) Here's the screen shot they published of my site:





I was about to use the above to prove to you how useful it is to learn to take a screen shot, if you yourself happen to have a web site. However, here’s what happened: I realized today, for the first time that the screen shot they used is actually not the same screen shot I sent them!

I don’t know if mine was too small or couldn’t be enlarged or what. But, they used a different screen shot, one they took of my site, from a much later date, which was closer to their date of publication.

And, come to think of it, maybe the "date" of the above screen shot is the reason they took a screen shot, and published a different screen shot than what I emailed to them in July. Their newsletter is published in September. Thus, perhaps they wanted to be more current in terms of their screen shot date. (The date is always included on my site, on the upper left corner, and in any screen shot.)

In short, I can’t use this issue of the EUROCALL Review to prove to you how useful it is for a web creator to know how to take a screen shot, since they used a screen shot I myself didn’t take, even though I emailed one to them. But, I like their online visuals very much. So, here, below, is a screen shot I recently took of the EUROCALL Review -- just so you can see I have indeed learned this skill of taking a screen shot.





Because I'm able to do this new skill, I feel ready for the next editor who asks me for a screen shot. Europe called me, and I answered -- but thanks to teaching myself how to make a screen shot, now I'm ready to answer anywhere! (And, another editor may actually have to rely on my emailed screen shots.)

Well, gotta go -- I want to read more of this current, fascinating issue of the EUROCALL Review . . .