Turner's Perspective

Another really good one. Now all the side bars on everyones blog page will be filled, lol I recently removed all them. What I would like is a widget that shows my active site at about 2" wide by 1 1/2 " long scale? Would be very cleaver. Think of all the fun ways to use that one? Any ideas?

Wow Jeff, This is great. It's Active Rain 101.

William... none off the top of my head, but you know I will give it some thought. :)

Mana... the upper level courses are only for tenured professors. The AR Gods have not bestowed that on me yet. :)

I'm sure that you get emails day and night about this stuff. Hopefully this will give you a little room to breathe! Thanks for sharing!!

Jeff, That was awesome!!!!  So simple.

Jeff - Thanks for such an excellent example and I sure appreciate the explanation.

Jeff,  This is an great video,  I already fixed my picture today from your first video, now I have sidebar work to do.  Excellent video,  you are the master.

personally, I love widgets -

Jim & Maria... well, it's certainly not day and night, but enough to be glad I have a link I can send now. :)

Bryant... thanks.

Sam... my pleasure.

 

 

Steven... from one bald guy to another, you're photo looks great.

Bill & Barbara Jo... so do i. :)

Jeff, this is a must read for all.  Thank you so much!

Jeff,

We worked on it but don't see how adding content to our profile page boosts points to that 1790 number you talked about in this video.  Did I misunderstand that?

Matt... my pleasure.

Lisa... I can't get mine past 1580 either, but I can take a brand new account to 1790  without any effort at all. I'm wondering if something changed over time? Anyone of the Rain gods know the answer to this? 

Jeff,

THANK YOU!  It took me a long time to redo the stuff I needed to redo, but it worked! 

You ROCK OUT LOUD!!!!!

 

I feel like doing a happy dance like Snoopy!
I am so so so happy that I've just learned how to create a widget to put on my sidebar.
What nmakes me want to dance is the fact that I just learned how to empty lines so I have spaces between my comments in the side bar!

Jeff - YOU ARE THE BOMB!!!

This is great!  It took me awhile to get the hang of it and 215 is indeed the important number to remember.  I used 250 and it was a really weird fit.  Now, how do your get the Amazon books into the sidebar?

Inquiring Minds want to know! 

Jeff,

Than you....I will attempt right now.  I need to spice things up!

Continued Success!!!!!

Everyone... VEOH seems to be having some technical difficulties. The videos should be up and running again soon.

Veoh apprears to be having problems today. The videos are sometimes viewable and sometimes not. Be patient, I've not seen this from them before, so I can only assume they are working on something on their end. If this continues, I will load the videos into another player.

Good show, Jedi Master Jeff.  Neat trick to use AR blog editor to capture html code.  Efficient and much appreciated (and free).

WOw...this is great Jeff. CAnt wait to try this one my next one! Thanks

Ted... hey, why write the code if you don't have to? :)

Nick... my pleasure. 

Jeff,  Today I made the time to start to explore some of my sidebar options.  Your video popped up almost immediately and was a great time saver.  Thank you.

Dru... that's great to hear. Thank you.

THIS one I really need.  I've been baffled by the genius of others.  Thanks Jeff!

Art... truly my pleasure!!!

Hi Jeff....I'm so glad I stumbled on this great tutorial of yours. I have learned how to copy and paste widgets but I didn't have any Idea I could create my own. I've gotta go try it now! Also you addressed the spreading out issue with <br><br> I have to go look at that again. Thanks so much.

I think I got it.  I think I got it.  I'm now going to get rid of my rss post because I'm not sure I know what its for.   I loved listening to your blog again since it reinforces what I know.  Thanks again. 

Super cool. This is the kind of things that really helps.

Bonner 

Vicki... my pleasure and good luck!

Judy... I'm about to get rid of a couple of things as well!

Bonner... glad to help. 

Are there points on the profile sheet that can only be received on the first day of activation ? - you mentioned you were going to check with the AR gods on this...

Also - I am at 1366 and don't really see what I missed to increase that point count..

Thanks again as a newbie - your time and energy spent on those videos make you an exceptional person.

Jeff - I saw your video - great job... when watching and missing something is there a way to have the rewind button activate, or just watch the video again?

When I went to MyBlogLog.com to get the sidebar widget - I saw them but then I thought I had to create an account, and I did. But now when I sign on I go right to my newly created account home page, and can not see a way to get back to where I wanted to be in the first place - to get a widget...  Help! With a click I am off and lost..

Richard... no response form AR gods yet. Still haven't figured it out.  And, yes, you are right, the VEOH player's controls don't work as advertised when embedded.

Jeff - Thank you for checking and your followup, very much appreciated.

Thanks so much, it seemed so confusing while reading the different post, but you made it easy for me to understand in your video.

Retta... so glad I could help.

Widgets are cool. Personally I just want to keep mine more professional.. seen alot that belong more on MySpace.

Jeff, fantastic! I knew how to insert a widget, however creating the HTML, awesome. Now I know how to make my own HTML thanks to you. 8)

What happens when your site stop displaying correctly in the browser (and all across other browsers) and AR technical service cannot reset your site but advise you to take out the widgets in order to have your site working and displaying correctly???

I had to strip out my right side vertical bar from the custom widgets I had. Not happy!

All I have now are the simple widgets... I wish I could have more flexibility in designing my blog. Any suggestion?

Jeff,

Thanks for the concise tutorial. I'll be in Saugus over the holidays. Would like to meet you if possible. You gonna be around for the holidays? 

Very insightful Jeff... as usual!

Thanks, 

Hey Jeff,

Thanks so much! I'm an old code monkey but could not for the life of me figure out how to load up the sidebar.

Aloha from HAwaii,

Biz 

Well, I haven't been able to get either one of my attempts to work... nothing showing in my sidebar yet.  Grrr.  Trying to load Real Estate World photo album this morning and code is in but there's nothing in my sidebar. Will keep trying... 

Excellent tutorial Jeff- I hope to get widget happy now.

Hey Jeff!

Thanks again....you are reviewing everything we need to know to get started in AR.  Not sure at this point what type of information will be important to me in my sidebar....too many other things to do right now.  But, I am sure once I start posting my blog....things will soon come to me.  Thank you for your continued help and support.

 

Hi Jeff,

Thank you so much for your video tutorials.  You make the rest of us look like wiz's.

Thank you Thank You Thank you!  I will have this done today!

I'm so glad I can do this on my own and I don't have to call my 25 yr old and say - how do I....

Jeff

Thanks for the great information

Thanks for the video help for all of us visual people.

Jeff, thank you so much for this very useful video.  I'm off to update my side bar!

 

Jeff - Thanks for this great info. Lots of people (myself included) have wondered about this stuff. Thanks for clearing it up & making it simple. Ken Tharp, Iowa Equity Exchange

Jeff:

Thanks so much for the great tutorial. It's very well presented and easy to understand.

Lisa

Aloha Jeff,

Thanks for the great tutorial, your an excellent teacher, and it's not even your primary profession.

Best wishes

Jeff,

If you were not on the other side of this country I would personally  give you a big kiss. Thank you

Dottie

 

AWESOME.  I am so not technical and this was a great blog for me!  Thank you Thank you!

I really need to add my Thanks - a great big thanks. It is such powerful information.

great post...thanks so much

Awesome... this inquiring mind has been searching for how to do this - thank you, thank you!

Jeff, Thanks!  So glad to be able to do this!  I am really suppose to do my tax right now.. 

 

Thank you for the tutorial. I will bookmark this and do it soon. I have been thinking of adding widgets.

I have an account on mybloglog, but I cant find the reader widget that you talk about here. Can you direct me. Feel really silly, because it seems so simple, but I would rather ask than waste more time looking

Great video tutorial. Have you done a blog about your favorite widgets for AR?

Another great post! I will play around with it and try it out! Thank you for providing the video. It helps to see it being done.

You are awesome!  I bookmarked this so I can share it with my agents.  Great tutorial, thank you:)

It's a Good Life!

Fran

Excellent!  I was starting to lose track of my widgets.  Thanks for the tip on how to keep track of them!

We have new widgets than the one in your video (I noticed that you're running the latest one on your sidebar, the black, Recent Visitors widget)

It's even easier to add this widget to your ActiveRain blog. Just click "Grab This" on the widget, enter your blog's URL, and it'll then give you the code you need to add to your Settings page.

Save, and then you're good to go!

Ian  Kennedy, MyBlogLog product manager

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/iankennedy/ 

 

Ian, thanks for stopping by. Yes, since I made this you made it easier. That's the problem/beauty of technology. :) Maybe I'll redo this at some point, but I hope until then it gets still gets the job done. 

Jeff, I appreciated finding this post as I have been wondering for months how people got things in the sidebar. Your tutorial made it very easy to follow. Thanks, Amy

Great information.  I had noticed this feature on other member's pages and had no idea how to difficult (or easy) it was.  Thanks for the great tutorial!

Thanks, now I will have to blow an evening picking out some widgets!!!!

It took me forever to figure this out by myself!  Wish this video had been here when I was clueless...I would have saved a lot of time!

Thanks Jeff...this is a must read for anyone who blogs on AR...you Rock!!!

WOW.... thank you I did not know that can't wait for an extra minute to update mine~

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Absolutley what i've been looking for....thanks so much for your help....now i know how to use widgets.......

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You I had spent hours trying to figure out how to put the widgets and custom content on the screen.  how simple can it get copy and paste html.  I'm going to go through your other video tutorials also, big time saver

This is so great !   THANK YOU  tHANK YOU!!

Thanks, I was so confused about this until I found this tutorial!

Thanks for the tips, by the way I love the Real Estate Shows and I can't wait for the new features to come out! It just keeps getting better and better.

Thanks for another great post! 

Thanks very cool just created my own with my co. logo  have fun in West by - GD Virginia - used to live near Charletown but on the Virginia side.

Thanks, I created my own widget in a minute!! Great help!

Your video is great- clear and easy to follow. I am more curious than ever to see what I can do to jazz my blog up!

Jeff, thanks so much for this video. I watched it three times, but finally got it! Some of us are slower than the rest.:)

Pat, all of us are slower at some things than others.  Don't hand me a wrench, for example. I'm lost.

This is great information! It's definitely something I'll keep around for reference in the future!

DM

Jeff - the video stops at 31 seconds, I'll be back to try again tomorrow.  Thanks!

Virginia, I just watched the video again and it's running fine. There may have been an issue with your connection.

Jeff, this is GREAT! I think I can do this! You make it look so simple. I must confess I stumbled on how to grab html last week from our web site's html editor to put in a post but this is so much easier. Thank you, thank you!

I may have read it before , but did not do anything yet. I will bookmark this and try it soon.Thank you for the great post.

Jeff-

Great post.  I was wondering how to do that.  I love the fact that everytime I get on AR, I learn how to do something new.

Thank you for this easy to follow video. I love when posts are written clearly and simply...very effective and informative post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LUV IT, LUV IT, LUV IT!

 

Video is soooonice and easy to understand.

NOW I am going to go and DO IT!

 

Thanks you so much,

 

Debbie

Thanks Bunches Jeff, you made it super clear. 

Bill

Jeff: many thanks for the very detailed blog. Super as usual.

Jeff, thank you, very helpful!

Jeff-

Thanks so much for your excellent tutorial. I've already added my company logo to my sidebar and now I'll make a widget and add that, too.

A whole new world has emerged for me here at ActiveRain. I'm doing things technically I always saved for someone else. Thank you again!

Leslie Hampton

great info, going to use it now

Just recommended the video to a member. Thanks for a great tutorial. Keep up the good work.

Outstanding information.  A great use of 8 minutes.  Thanks for making it simple.

Thanks Jeff! You are a saint! I'm a newbie and really wanted to add retaggr to my sidebar! Great information! I can't wait to share with the agents I'm working with!!!

I learned a ton in just a few minutes.  Thanks a bunch!

As a newbie all this info is priceless...thanks!

As a newbie all this info is priceless...thanks!

Does anyone know how to add widgets(besides the pre set ones) to your outside blog?  

Nice...thanks for this...definitely saved me some time.

Sweet!  While listening to your video (I even bookmarked it) I just added my Google voice to my blog page.  Thanks

How do I join the tech and gadget groups you list at the top of this page. I love that stuff!

thank you for this--- just what I was looking for!!  kathy

Thank you so much. I have been wondering how to do this. I'm going to update my page right now.

Hey Jeff,

Great video, easy to follow. But ...

 

I can't get this script to work.

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/98/1559872098.js"></script>

 

I do it just like you script from mybloglog, yet it does not show.

Thoughts?

 

Thanks.

 

Joe

I'm new & you anwered about 10 questions an 8 minute video.  Thank you

This was so helpful! Thank you!!! -Ingrid

Awesome! I was wondering all about this - thanks for giving us this great tutorial!

Awesome! I was wondering all about this - thanks for giving us this great tutorial!

I was not going to ask i was going to figure it out on my own and I had no choice but to give up thank you