Real Estate Blog Lab

MyBlogLog was purchased recently by Yahoo. I thought okay no big deal, till I had to log into my account and start making changes, like they didn’t know what my avatar is so I have to create a new one. Like I can link to my Yahoo account if I want to, etc. etc.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The last post here at the Lab was about the font legibility on IE 7 vs Firefox. I looked and looked to find a way to make them as bold and easy to read on FF as on [...]

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I’ve waited for a very long time to update IE to version 7.  Our local MLS software was not compatible with IE 7 when it first came out.  I recently checked again to see if any of the recent work they have done on the software changed this.  It is now functional with IE 7 [...]

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The 2.3.2 upgrade was painless. So there is no smoke in the Lab just this picture of Prickly Pear Cactus since upgrading Wordpress continues to be a prickly situation with which to deal. There was still the issue of the spell checker not working so I had to move the spellchecker directory from the previous install to this one.

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The last day of the year, the time when everyone does the “Let’s look back. . . ” or the “Lets see what the future hold for 2008.” I’m sitting here like I do so many days seeing there is yet another update to Wordpress version 2.3.2. I didn’t bother with 2.3.1 and now there is talk of 2.4 just around the corner.

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I have moderation turned on for comments on the blog lab.  The setting is for approval of all first time comments and once approved the person making the comments can continue to make comments as long as there are not more than 3 links in a comment.
I’ve noticed lately, that all the people that have [...]

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Need I write or even say the Ruler associated with PR. No not the Price is Right. Some would think it Pretty Risky, or Purposely Ridiculous. It was waited for two month longer than some thought it due.

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Why do I want Meta Tags In the Head
At one time these tags had great significance in search engine placement, (Web 1.0). Since it is now generally believed they are for the most part ignored by the search engines (Google) many have stopped using them all together. You can tell the significance WordPress [...]

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WORDPRESS 2.3 BREAKS MORE THAN IT FIXES BE WARNED!
Yep, I did it. I upgraded the lab this afternoon and there is debris and smoke everywhere. The kids making these version must never test some of the basic functionality. You would think they were throwing hand grenades and calling it “Close Enough” lets [...]

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The boys at Sellsius have surfaced and they have done so with a bang in the blogosphere. Introducing some of us to Animoto. Animoto is a blast.

Here is a quick short that took just a few minutes to put together.
Limit your images to 15 and select the 30 sec free option to play around [...]

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