The Official ActiveRain Guide

Jeff = Thanks for sharing your expertise. I will keep looking out for the updates. Thanks much.

Jeff~ If there ever was a man to do this its you..DANG You're Good!

You da man -- all the info in one spot.  I like the mirror effect.

Jeff you are way to funny on the cut and paste. I would have thought by now everyone knew about copy and paste, you probably could get away with cut and paste now.

Chuck, Laura, Aziz... thanks.

Susan... I really wasn't trying to be funny, though I know it seems that way. I spoke a few weeks ago and at the break three people came up, embarrassed and asked me to explain cut and paste.  They may not be on this network, but now that it's here, if someone asks you, you'll have something solid to point them to. :)

Great idea Jeff.  There are so many wonderful resources out there discussing video and "how to" that its a great idea to put the best of the best in a collection for future use.  Thanks again.

Thanks for your contribution. I bookmarked it. I wanted to know how to do some of this stuff. Much appreciated.

I'm sure this is going to help a lot of people. But quite frankly, even knowing how to embed widgets, videos, etc., I'm too lazy to save, switch modes, embed code, save again, etc., other than on infrequent occasions.

Jeff, I had to chuckle with copy and paste. I must say there is only one way and that would be UP from there!

Tracy... my pleasure.

John... thank you.

Lisa... yes, some of the nuances of switching from WYSIWYG to HTML view can be tedious. For the right things, it's certainly worth it.

Gena... well, we all started at the beginning.  

Jeff, I am patiently waiting for my request... YOu mean you can profit from it too???

 

Ha...graphic is ginseng...so I will remember how to do it.

Great post, Jeff.     thanks

Jeff, it's great that you include basic information too ("cut and paste") because you never know the level people are at! 

I still remember asking someone years ago about how to "cut and paste" and how to do all sorts of basic things on a computer....at a new job no less, and my assistant manager kindly showed me.  He did not make me feel stupid for asking, something I am forever grateful for.  So many thanks for your kind patience and help towards me and everyone here at AR!

thanks jeff,  this is cool, helpful, and thanks much for taking your time to make things easier for us.

Jeff,

Thank you, thank you.  I used one of your posts to teach me how to imbed a video.  It took the learning curve right out of it and instead of it taking an hour, it took me minutes.

Jeff, great information, especially about how to create and grab HTML..I had no idea it was so easy! 

Jeff - Thank you for always finding a way to provide new tools and tips to assist us in our daily activities.  I look forward to the next series.

Thanks for some great info, Jeff. You take away my excuses for not working on my profile page and my website. From, an SCV migrant

I've got a good one... how to turn your posts into PDFs for easy distributing to your clients

Bob... :)

Tim... my pleasure.

Deborah... it's way too easy for those of us who've been around computers for 20+ years to forget what it was like in the beginning. But everyone starts at the same place. Some are just starting. It's wrong to expect everyone to be at the same place at the same time

Gary, Fran... it's truly my pleasure.

Lisa... none of this is hard, it's just different. :)

Jennifer... thank you.

Karen... glad I can help.

Jeff thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I have a lot to learn and I appreciate all that you do to help all of us market what we do.

David... are you wanting to have the PDF appear exactly the same as the web page looks?  That's tricky with a web page, espeically a blog. As you've probably seen from just trying to print a post, it can get ugly the way print function mangles the code. Even on a mac, print to pdf of this page looks horrible and there's almost no control over that. Let me know. 

Joan... as always, it's my pleasure and something that I enjoy doing.

Jeff - I can embed a video or html code into a post - but found the other day that I do not know how to do that into a comment. 

if a mechanism exists in AR to embed into a comment dialog, some instructions would be helpful.

Thanks for all you do. 

Ted... there use to be a way to do so, but they removed that feature when some of us (you all know who you are) began putting video after video in single blog comment streams. The posts were taking forever to open. :) So, we can't do that anymore. 

This was a lot of work. Kudos to you for all your hard work and effort.

Coying and pasting is one of my very best skills.  I am going to watch the tutorial so that I can learn to do it better.  Thanks Jeff. :) Now if I could just figure out scarbulous

Thanks so much for organizing these important tutorials together.  You wouldn't believe how much time some one could waste learning how to do some of these items.  Just ask me

Jeff - I think you win on side bar length!  :)

BTW:  What do you use for video editing.  I've been using a combo of QuickTimePro and iMovie - but they're both pretty weak.  Any suggestions?

Great effort, we all appreciate you willingness to take the time to train us!  Flagged, bookmarked and a 5!

Jeff,  Thanks I've bookmarked this one!  I'm sure it will prove to be very helpful and your hard work and efforts are truly appreciated.

Great tutorial Jeff. You have a great list there for future tutorials that I am really looking forward to.

You're the man!

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.

Don't get me wrong by this comment....   But I love all the help...   can't I just send you my "stuff" and since you are so WONDERFUL and doing these and putting them together.... and lets not forget that you enjoy doing them and I am sure you have nothing better to do.

Wanna just help a girl out <smile>    Okay so you can call me Lazy...  I admit it.. thanks for the info though

Hi Jeff - thanks for having all this in one place, and I'll keep watching for more links to be added.  BOOKMARKED for sure!!

Ann

Jeff--I can't wait to get into this post & make my site better than ever!  Mary Ann Grafft

After watching 'How to Add Charts to Your Posts', my tutorial request is ... How to Make Video Tutorials. I could see these would be really useful in explaining our KW intranet to other agents, guiding clients through our websites, sending properties to out-of-town buyers, etc. I'm sure you know of a chat or talk site that will let us do this in real time, too. Thanks for your help!

{SWV Hubba}...

Does this mean that I should write a post about...

"How To Hijack A Post For Fun And Profit" and then hand it over to you?

Or will you be writing that? :)

P.S. Please tell Rocky we said welcome home.

TLW...ROAR!

Being a Newbie, I am very excited about your helpful offerings.  Thank you.

Jeff, thanks so much for the useful tutorials.  I'm sure I'll eventually have a need for inserting charts, and I've bookmarked more than one of your posts for future reference...

Hey Jeff, I have another tutorial idea. I would like to know how to create those quotation graphics that I see some people use in their posts when quoting someone. Does that make sense? ;-)

How To Add Links To Your Blog has been posted. It has an emphasis on using the right anchor text. 

 

How To Add Links To Your Blog

Dez... bring it on!

 

Teresa... scrabulous would be easier to understand if you actually played your next move. :)

Bob & Caroline... my pleasure.  

Judy... I hope I'm saving people a great deal of time. That's part of the goal.

Ben... I actually don't really edit these. I use Snapz Pro X, a Mac app, to do the screen captures and I usually do them in one take. I'll sometimes delete dead space if something is taking too long, like an upload, but I do that inside of QuickTime. I'm copying and pasting the pre-roll and compressing using QuickTime Pro as well. For Veoh I compress to M4V, for Brightcove I compress to MPEG.

 

Diane... thank you.

Therese... let me know if something doesn't make sense.

Jennifer... :)

 

Ann... one more has been added. :)

Mary Ann... let us know how it goes.

 

John... you're wish is my command.

TLW [SVW]... I'm betting the tutorial on hijacking will be hijacked before the second comment is entered. ;)

 

Gail... excellent. I'm happy to help.

Brian... my pleasure. 

Jennifer... it's trickier since AR set a limit on what can be in the sidebar outside of html tags. You have to put some CSS in the blog post itself. I actually stole what I'm using from Brad Carroll and edited the quote portion to put in a new graphic. I put that CSS code in LAST and at the end of the post in the HTML editor. Here is the code if you'd like to try. You'll notice a BLOCKQUOTE parameter. This is what signals the quote. <blockquote>You Quote Here</blockquote>

Here is the CSS:

<style type="text/css">
  blockquote {margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 30px; padding: 10px 0pt 0pt 20px; width:500px; background: transparent url(http://www.realestateshows.com/jeff/quotes.gif) no-repeat scroll left top; font-size: 120%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: #356D9E; line-height: 1.2em;}
 
h2 {
color:#356D9E!important;
font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:20px!important;
font-size-adjust:none;
font-stretch:normal;
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:0pt;
line-height:24px;a
margin:9pt 0pt 0px;
padding:6px 0pt 0px;
}
h3 {
color:#356D9E!important;
font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:20px!important;
font-size-adjust:none;
font-stretch:normal;
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:0pt;
line-height:24px;
margin:9pt 0pt 0px;
padding:6px 0pt 0px;
}

a {
color:#356D9E;
text-decoration:underline; }

p{ margin-top:2px!important;}

a:hover {
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration:none;
background:#356D9E;
border 1px solid #DDA603 }

</style>
 

 

For some reason I thought the text in the quotes was just a graphic, but seeing the CSS really makes a lot of sense from both a search engine and design standpoint. I really need to open up those three CSS books on the bookshelf. It's time to sharpen the coding skills again.

I hope that step 1 of 'How to Make Video Tutorials' isn't "Buy a Mac!" :)

John... no, it won't be. :) Though it would make your life easier.

John - I'm with you on the CSS thing. I have a couple of books that a collecting dust that I should dhake off one these days.

Jeff - Have I mentioned lately that you are my hero? ;-) Thanks, I'm going to give it a try.

Jennifer... no, not lately... but you can keep saying it. I like the way it sounds. :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you from a noob.  You are my Active Rain technical guru.  I am working my way through your list and hope to be semi-competent about getting stuff on my site in the future. 

Terry... you are so welcome.

Jeff,

Probably too simple of a question, how do you save a blog before you post???  Don't ask me why?

That's not to simple at all. There is a pull down menu below the post window, that defaults to "public." Pull that down to "draft" and save. This will not be seen to anyone but you until you make it public and save.

Jeff,

I'm going to try right now.   Thanks so much .

Hi Jeff, Hope all is well with you and your wonderful family! 

I just thought of a tutorial.....I would love to know how you type around an image that's been added to a post.  I know it's possible because I see it all the time, just don't know how!  I've noticed it in your and Laurie Manny's posts and really like the overall presentation it creates. 

Right now I add an image and can only start my text either beside the image (on the very bottom of the image), or below it. Hope I've explained this well enough!  If you have any questions, shoot me an email or give me a call, thank you!

Ana... your wish is my command. I till be posted in a few minutes. :)

Jeff, how do you get the colored fonts you use on your posts?  Is there any way to adjust the font size in a post?

Thanks for all the great advice. I'm really enjoying this community now that I know how to add some zing to my profile and blog.

Lisa... if you look up further in this comment string, you'll see the CSS code I put in for Jennifer.

John... good luck! 

OK, that would require me understanding CSS, now wouldn't it :)  Jeez, my head is going to explode with everything there is to learn here!

Lisa... :)  You can do this as well using font tags in the html, but the AR html editor is so funky to work with, it's almost not worth the effort. It would be nice if they added a text editor to the WYSIWYG toolbar.

Bookmarked for eternity - thanks for the useful stuff, Jeff.

Art... :)

Jeff, I just stumbled on this post. Wonderful, wonderful. There is so much worthwhile information on your posts. Thanks! You're right about having a text editor.....but the instructions teach me stuff I can do elsewhere. One of my websites is CSS, and everyday I learn something new.

Teri... you're right, most of this can be used outside of AR as well!

Jeff,

This is great all your informative instructional vids in one place!

Thanks, 

You are bookmarked! this is great! Thank you!

Jeff --

I have a question.  I have on CD a 45 minute radio interview that I would like to put on my web site as well as my AR profile page so that it can be accessed and listened to by visitors.

It looks to me like this should be able to be done, but I have no clue how/where to begin.  Will you please let me know if it can happen, and if it can, where I start?

Thank you,

Bill

Hi Jeff, Thanks for all the great tutorials, I can foresee hours in front on my computer now. I have gotten as far as your second one(Video), adding to the side bar, but somehow I can not get the HTML for the sidebar that will show who viewed or visited your site with their pictures. I tried slowing down your video, but I couldn't find that program on Mybloglog.com that would allow me to do that. Can you help me out with that one please. Mahalo...what do you think of my site so far? Hector

 

I know I still have lots of ork...but Im doing it...wow

I have tons of video links on my site here in the Rain as well you can link to

SOOO Informative!  I just LOVE the sharing culture of AR!  Thank You for helping all of us look like a CLASS ACT!

 

Thank you very much Jeff, I will use this. Rod

Jeff,

I just wanted to say "YOU DA' MAN!" You have offered possibly more than anyone else on AR and hundreds, if not thousands of us have read your posts for advice and direction.  Ive never posted my thanks before, so thank you thank you thank you, it comes well deserved.

Wishing you the best in life and business,

Joshua Matthews-Keller Williams Coastal Realty

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.  I will be back here so many times.

Jeff you're the master!!! Thanks for sharing these awesome tips. I'm going to put them to good use. Best of luck and keep them coming.

Jeff... Great info..... thanks

That was a very informative post! As an AR newbie this is certainly a good checklist of info to learn and utilize! Thanks!

Hi Jeff,

What a wonderful resource you are thank you.  I would like to ad this link to our office private group... Most of our office is already registered with real estate shows.  more to come...

Nice to see the 99.00 gig again.

Thanks for all you do.

 

Frank D'Angelo

EXIT Realty Executives

Minneapolis, MN

Jeff....You have some really great stuffl  I have just added a doppler account.  now i need to figure out how to find the link so i can put it on my blog.

I feel like a cave man after reviewing this stuff. Thanks for opening that door to the 21st century for me

Jerry

Jerry... we all feel like that sometimes. Trust me on that one. :)

These tutorials are great...i saw one earlier (before I learned how to bookmark) doesnt appear to be on this list.  it was how to customize your blog header and background.

can anyone aim me to that one...thanks a bunch. 

(good karma to you jeff for all your help.)

This is essential reading for anyone who is a member of ActiveRain, has their own web site, or who just blogs anywhere else.

Thank you for the post!

Hi Jeff,

You have an abundance of knowledge in this web 2.0 platform.  I'm hoping to create a summary list of your video tutorials in one of my broker blog groups for our office. 

Can I post your links to your tutorials in that group???

Frank D'Angelo Broker

EXiT Realty Executives

Hubba...

This post is in The AR Newsletter. Have you kept it updated? :)

TLW...ROAR!

TLW [SVW]... It says it will be "continually updated." Tha may have been a bit aggressive. :)

LOL :)

Jeff, Thank you for taking the time to do this for us. I am going to review all the subjects. Thanks

Hi Jeff, can you say "serindipity"?

I was just going to login and see where in the heck I could learn more about how to do and what to do and then I open your blog!

"scuse me while I open a bottle of wine and settle in for a long night of video tutorials!

Thanks much!

Tamara D.

Hi Jeff,

Great list, thank you!  I've wondered how to wrap the text around an image ... you just made it a no-brainer.  I really appreciate your tutorials.

Thanks again,
Mike

Thank you so much for the great information.

Jeff. Thanks so much.

Bookmarked and I hope this is one I actually come back to.

Jeff, I spent all day Saturday with you.  Thanks for teaching in such an easy to understand manner. I keep tellling my husband and kids, "I know how to do WIDGETS, I know how to do WIDGETS!"  Bless you!  Gina

Jeff, I really appreciate this long list of tutorials.  It will help as I'll send this post to my list of new members.  It looks like I will spend a lot of time with you today! 

Hi Jeff you tutorial are really very good thank you.  I am missing something though, on setting up the profile what are you using to size the photo..is there some special software that does that or is it something in the photo on my computer..I can see where to adjust evrything but the size.

working on RDSH this is 2-  thanks  cheryl(8 to go)willis

So much info -  thanks for a great tutorial!

I just revisted this to learn how to wrap text.  Thanks again.

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