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Entries from June 2008

Flock the Sports Car of Browsers

June 30th, 2008 · 14 Comments

Have some fun and do yourself a favor take Flock for a Test Drive, it is the sports car of browsers

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Tags: Blogging In General

Single Property Web site Documents Provide Transparency and More

June 25th, 2008 · 14 Comments

It is impressive to the buyer’s agent, it is impressive to the buyers themselves and it is impressive to your clients when they see how well their home is being marketed online. Win, Win, Win.

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Tags: Single Listings

Firefox Spell Check Auto Save Publish

June 24th, 2008 · 10 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I completed this routine and when I looked at the live post there were my bold red and green words that had come up on the spell check in Firefox.

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Google Search Results Firefox and Internet Explorer

June 22nd, 2008 · 20 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Be a Lab Rat conduct an Experiment, (No Lab Rats will be harmed in the process)
I need the help of some Lab Rats (I use that term endearingly) who use both FF and IE.
Here is the Lab exercise I’m [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General

Are You Experiencing the Google Bungee Bounce

June 21st, 2008 · 10 Comments

While this is going on we are being whipped about all over the place and find our statistics and search hits reflecting the wild ride we have been on at the Google Theme and Wild Gyrations Web Park.

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Tags: Blogging In General

Modifying The Theme Header File

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Header Branding
I know some people are really into “Branding” and it is all the rage these past few years. When I first heard the term living in Tucson I thought they were talking about cows and roundups. I think it was 5 years ago when “branding” became a buzz word, much like “Green” [...]

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Tags: WP Themes Checklist

John Lockwood REALTOR®(thingy goes here) Plugin

June 18th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I have on rare occasions used the word RealtorĀ® in a blog post. Simply because I know it is supposed to have a trademark symbol after it and I don’t know where that symbol is nor do I can to learn. Instead I use real estate agent, which I know being a real estate agent and a RealtorĀ® is not the same thing. But it made it so I didn’t have to find the trademark symbol.

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

The Theme Footer Where The Sneaky Stuff Resides

June 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The place to start when picking a new theme is at the bottom. One of the most overlooked elements of a theme is the footer. The footer is one of the first files I check when selecting a theme. It is a common practice for the footer to be the location for Copyright, the theme’s name and a link to the creator of the theme. The WP version is often included in the text.

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Tags: WP Themes Checklist

Getting our Theme Tweaking Workshop Ready

June 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments

One thing I’ve learned over the years it is get the proper tools to do the job right. Setting up a good workshop for Tweaking Themes is a great idea and worth the investment in time to setup. If your blog is a business blog you especially want to take this step to assure you aren’t in danger flowing away your blog while making changes to it. The workshop is safe. You can make changes, corrections, additions and if you accidentally blow up the blog all you have to do is clear a little smoke and start over.

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Tags: WP Themes Checklist

Launching A New Theme

June 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments

There are any number of reasons you want or need a new theme for your blog. Some themes limit functionality and some are not easy to upgrade or customize. The reason for change isn’t as important as the process you go through to successfully change the theme of your blog.

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Tags: WP Themes Checklist