I got off the phone with a Hostgator tech support person a few days ago and vowed to write a post reminding real estate agents of why we recommend them for real estate website hosting. Finding a place to host your real estate website or blog is one of the first things you’re confronted with…
If you’ve been in real estate any length of time you know what a pain it can be to have to change the dimensions of a large batch of listing photos so that they’re the right size to use online. Shrink-O-Matic is a free program that you can download to your computer and use to re-size…
I found a good recent post on how to prevent your WordPress blog from being hackedover on the Velvet Blues blog. It’s worth taking a look, and/or passing the info on to your web designer if they’re managing a WordPress blog for you. Just a note, for the table prefix rename I like a WordPress…
Today I spent a couple of hours looking for an online photo editing tool that would be easy for agents to use to: 1) Edit photos of their properties online, and 2) Allow them to make a decent header graphic for a website on their own. I realize that last one may seem a bit ‘out…
Scribd is a cool, free online service that helps you share documents online by embedding them in your web pages. If you don’t own a website, you can still post your documents on Scribd for free, where they can be read without having to be downloaded first. This solves the problem of having to attach pdf,…
More and more real estate agents are using self-hosted WordPress blogs these days, as I do on all my sites so far. Here’s something you should know about how to choose the best permalink naming structure. (The permalink is how the URL will look for that blog post. For example, for this post the URL (permalink) will read “http://www.toolsforrealestate.com/best-permalink-structure-for-blog-posts.)…
If you have a real estate blog you probably want to occasionally post photo galleries and slideshows of your listings. There’s a great free WordPress blog plugin called NextGen Gallery that lets you do just that. Considering how many great features it has I was actually surprised at how relatively simple it was for me to set…
The other day I was helping out the irrepressible Natalie Danielson of www.ClockHours.com with her domains, and it reminded me to post these tips on domain name buying. (By the way, in addition to teaching and selling clock hours online Natalie is also a stand-up comic, and if you ever hear her laugh you’ll know why…
Libby and I got our photos taken earlier this year by Jamie Pflughoeft, owner of the wonderful Cowbelly Pet Photography, and I emailed her last week to ask why the photos that were supposed to be high resolution were 72 dpi (dots per inch) instead of 300 dpi, which is what’s normally used for print….
One of the top 10 most emailed articles in the New York Times a couple of months ago was a post by David Pogue, their tech blogger, called Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User. I read it and couldn’t believe some of the things I didn’t know myself, even though I’m a confirmed techy. …
