Ken's Sandbox http://blog.rwre.com Beer, Wine, Golf and code Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:38:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RealWorld Real Estate Welcomes Currieco Real Estate Currieco, “Your Local Real Estate Expert” has joined the rwre.com family. The company has multiple office locations in Douglas, County, Oregon, and been successfully serving clients over the last 30 years. Welcome!

]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/94 Site Updates If you are a regular visitor you have no doubt noticed the recent site updates. We have been working on rolling them out for the past 5 days. So far the feedback has been mostly positive. In fact I was rolling along thinking everything was great until I received a couple negative comments.

One site visitor [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/90 Site Updates I have been spending most of my time the past 4 days installing site update, killing bugs and responding to visitor feed back about the updates. So far the feedback has been very positive.

If you haven’t noticed, the main update has been the new detail page. The new page has larger photos (600 x 400), [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/87 New Form Fields Last weekend I uploaded new forms with some new fields. I wrote this post and then did not file it under the RWRE Members category so it would show up on the login page. Better late than never I guess.

At the top of the new listing forms you will see Foreclosure, Bank Owned, Short sale [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/81 Google Voice Open to All Google announced that it’s Google Voice service is open to anyone wanting to sign up. I have been using the service for about a year and love it. If you call me at the office number and I am out, the call is forwarded to my Cell. If I am driving or can’t take the [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/72 Sort of Scheduled Downtime – Update The battery in the battery backup for our fiber connection has failed. Comspan will be replacing it tomorrow (Thurs June 24th) at about 1:30 pm. RealWorld, Assessor Tax data, idx et al will all be down for several minutes while they work on it.

Update: The  Comspan Tech has come and gone. Connection was down for [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/70 A New direction in Advertising A little over a year ago, I started running ads on the RealWorld Real Estate web site. Just two spots, one vertical ad on the home page and another horizontal ad at the bottom of most site pages. Over the first year these two ad slots were displayed slightly more than a million times (a [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/65 Facelift Update and Wordpress Wrapper Framework I have settled on a new theme, Atahualpa. I can’t pronounce it or remember how to spell it, but so far it is proving very flexible, easy to work with and has a great support forum.

So, a little about what I am planning to do with it (and wordpress).

I see a need for sites that [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/57 A Face lift I’m in the process of doing a little face lift on the blog. I’m looking at doing some plugin development so I just upgraded to the latest Wordpress. Next, need to find a theme I like. I will try to keep it at least functional during the process but it may be different every time [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/53 The Only Phone Number You Need I have had a Google Voice account since before Grand Central was bought out by Google. Like a lot of things, I signed up, played with it a little and then let the account sit there gathering dust.

Last month, Google opened the system up to allow users to set Google Voice as the default voice [...]]]> http://blog.rwre.com/archives/52