Morgan Carey's Blog: REW Blogs

I think we should increase the amount of articles in a category from 5 to 8 - not sure how this will effect the design, but will provide more to read and more to look at from a content perspective. Read Full Post

If you are a firefox user, and you click the RSS feed link on your favorite REW Blog authors blog, you can add an automatic update bookmark link to your firefox toolbox. It's actually really cool, you get notifications when new posts are made, so you can go check them out.

I should do this for REW Forums 2.0 Read Full Post

Ok so what is blogalytics? Blogalytics is a term I just made up by combining the word Blog and the word analytics - Make sense?

Ok seriously though, this blog post is TOTALLY worth reading to the end, so keep reading. (Especially for you REW bloggers)

Blogalytics is a technique I have practiced, and selectively shared with friends that helps alleviate the annoying task of trying to decide what to blog about while at the same time being guaranteed that your blog posts will receive the kind of targeted visitors that you are trying attract to your website.

The analytics part: There are 2 requirements

1. In order to practice this technique you have to have "some" traffic from search engines.

2. You must have a web analytics program installed… Read Full Post

I just realized that there isn't a distinction between category and sub category levels here at the REW Blogs, I would like the sub cats to only show if you are already in the main cat section or any subsequent sub of a main cat.

REW templates and CMS already use this technology and it it would be sweet from an organization perspective. Read Full Post

Just a note to myself to install google analyics on the REW Blogs Read Full Post

One of the most important thing for keeping a clean and active blog is managing your comments - we need to create a notification such as "You have x amount of comments in your queue waiting for approval" - this should be on the main page when a user logs into their REW blog.

What other notifications do we need here? Read Full Post

(PHIL DO NOT CHANGE THE BLOG DESIGN I LIKE IT, just look at the specifics I am posting here) 

I really don't like the contact links all over the place on comments - check out this post (Look at the comments) http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/ryan-ward/203/show/

The comments section looks like crap because it has a link to my blog, a link to contact me, my name (Also a link) and then my pic.

What I would rather this looked like was my picture (I really like this element and want to keep it, perhaps with my name directly under the pic as a hyperlink to my blog (Link to blog important) - and find a way to make a better use of that space.

Now onto http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/all/ - once again a really poor use of space, I like that…

Was making comments on other users blogs and ran into this error,


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Not to self! Fix tomorrow Read Full Post