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Craig's Classroom Blog is a series of short technology articles for Real Estate Professionals. You will learn how to work with and improve on your online points of presence. Craig teaches about practical technology usage that you will find useful in your daily workflow. Work smarter!
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Having an image in your blog post makes it interesting for the reader. Of course having valuable text content is the first priority! However the synergy of the text and the graphics that you use is not to be overlooked for the ingredients of an A+ post.Oftentimes, bloggers will size an image so t...
07/13/2014
To make a blog post more appealing, you should use images for eye appeal. Often the images we would like to use are in the form of photographs. I see very often (with even experienced bloggers) a mistake with images because of not understanding proper sizing of a photo.Let’s go through an exercis...
07/12/2014
If you saw my previous post, you'll know I'm a little upset with a recent user interface design change here in ActiveRain. Bottom line is that, at the moment, there is no longer a link on the home page that takes us to a summary newsfeed of all the posts of all the people that we have subscribed ...
07/08/2014
Dear ActiveRain, On your recent interface update, you took something away from us and I'm going to be first in line to ask for it back. We are missing the "Following" link on the top menu bar. Besides taking away the easiest way to get to a feed of posts to those we have subscribed to, you have b...
06/20/2014
When you write a blog post, you have opportunity to share helpful other pages with your readers. To do this, you insert hyperlinks in your text so that they can easily click the link and jump to the new page. This is something I’m sure you realize already! What you may not realize though is that ...
02/17/2014
I was looking at my facebook timeline this morning and noticed the contrast of these two recent shots that were taken from same vantage point out of our living room window. The brilliant and beautiful colors of fall were followed by winter with its own beauty. By his expression, you can tell tha...
12/15/2013
Being able to insert pictures in our blog posts is an essential first step to making an appealing presentation. Images along with valuable textual content will help you to keep the attention of the person that just clicked onto your page. Would you like to step up your game with the option to cre...
12/14/2013
The technologies related to our personal enjoyment of music have dramatically changed over the past century! Imagine how huge a change it was that you could RECORD a live performance and play it back whenever you wanted. Persons who would never have heard the original performance could now hear i...
11/17/2013
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTiOS7 is available on your iPhones and iPads starting today - Under your settings button > General > Software Update - you may see "new update available" This is a pretty big UI update - my suggestions to you are these... Learn about the update before you install it so y...
09/18/2013
Not only does the wheel on the mouse go round and round but it CLICKS down too! I really like having three buttons on my mouse. I use the third button all the time! Do you? My favorite use of the middle button (i.e. clicking down on the wheel) is to open a link on a webpage in a new tab. What’s c...
08/21/2013
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