CSS Design Magic - A Site Above - Make MONEY NOW!

Posted on October 19, 2007
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Established, Aged, SE Indexed, PR Rranking, Business Site Opportunities

Cleaning house and getting rid of several domains I’m putting up three for sale, two of which are immediate. These two domains were originally going to be created as a CSS gallery and a CSS repository for code and open source templates specifically developed to benefit its members by providing one way links. Time and energy are better spent elsewhere at this time and I’d hate to see good site names like this die. Each is aged better than 4 years and each has some kind of PR and does index in the SE’s. Markets can be slow and more people invest in other businesses to build residual incomes between September and December than other times of the year. If you are looking for a place to invest, then invest in your own site. These sites have great earning potential and as I mentioned are ALL AGED SITES which lends a great deal to their SEO prowess and potential. Please read more about these sites and contact me for further details.

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Updates! Dreamweaver Template Extensions

Posted on October 19, 2007
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Templates, Extensions, Products and Plugin Updates

People have asked what the delay was for all the plugins, templates and other products and its simply this. I’ve been gone for long period of time handling a personal matter. I haven’t fully returned to full time work here or at the school so I’ve let a few things slide.

Those who were curious about other aspects of the template design extensions for Adobe Dreamweaver should note that each of these are actually production ready and when I updated my WordPress to version 2.3 it somehow broke my shopping cart which I’ve simply not had a spare moment to fix. I’m going to install a file manager this weekend where you can simply register and download the files without using the shopping cart for all the items that are FREE. This will include all of the templates and some code snippets.

Code Snippets, Tutorials, Updates, Support Docs, Guides, Articles!

Since my absence I’ve managed to take a few hundred brainstorming notes while on the plane between California and Washington each trip and I’ve come up with a new method for publishing support materials and articles for code snippets and such.

My idea is to continue to use WordPress as my primary CMS for this site and then use Joomla 1.0.12 (my version which is modified to accommodate SEF better) as the primary article publishing medium. I’ll publish blurbs or introductions I’ll call the short version in my blog solely for WordPress impressive search engine friendly presence and then direct people to the full documented version of the articles in my new Joomla install. I’ll test this but if I’m correct, it should improve Search Engine rank in regards to getting pages out of “supplemental” status which Google now hides from people.

The new Joomla install location for articles will feature some cool stuff as well like the iJoomla Magazine component and my all time favorite DocMan for document and file management. I can’t count how many Realtors I’ve installed DocMan for that come very dependent on its features. Its a great product. Since I no longer use the Joomla PDF generator for articles, I drafted a new standardized look for all documents that I publish to this site. I simply draft all articles in MS Word, test them for keyword density among other SEO things with my tester, print it to PDF, create an HTML version and finally create a visually impaired version for the compliance people. All articles can be downloaded in DOC, RTF, PDF, MSReader, and HTML formats once complete.

Last the Articles Section will be here: http://www.jaredritchey.com/articles/ (Please ignore that template I was just messing around)

Jared Ritchey and Open Realty

Posted on October 16, 2007
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Almost three days now I’ve received back to back questions and emails about the reason behind the ban in the Open Realty forums and this has prompted me to just post a small blurb on the reason so there is no confusion or speculation.

I was removed from active membership in the Open Realty forums for one simple reason according to the email I received (still have saved) from Ryan the forums owner. The link in my signature use to go to www.jaredsdesigns.com which I had sold to a large national jewelery company and redirected the traffic to my new blog. It was the blog that caused the issue apparently.

According to Ryan I was banned because I changed the link in my signature to point to this very blog and apparently something in my posts offended them to such a degree that my account was closed. What exactly was so offensive is still a bit of a mystery to me as my blog tends to favor Open Realty with bias. I’ve been told by associates who are still members in the Open Realty forums that the motive centered around the issue of me offering competing products to Transparent Technologies and to this day I’ve yet to discover what those competing products are. Where I once had more than 880 posts in the forums I notice massive editing of my posts and outright deletions where the current number lingers about 730+. I don’t have an issue with Open Realty, Open Realty’s administrators have an issue with me.

I’m a visual design professional and photoshop instructor, Period! IDX / MLS / PHP / MySQL / and all else are the realm of my partner whom of which does accept commissions for such projects for Realtors no fewer than two to three times a week. The last time I looked, Transparent Technologies was a hosting company and developer of Open Realty and they do offer some sort of IDX products which I’m not entirely clear on the scope or depth of the products. I’m not sure how exactly we are competitors based on the forum rules which seem to have changed since the last time I saved a copy. But regardless of the semantics of this issue, Its interesting to note that today I visited Open Realty only to discover links in signatures to hosting companies and other third party vendors clearly in direct competition with Transparent Tech. So its anyones guess as to the mysteries of this.

As far as the questions regarding resentment and forking of Open Realty, its important to note that the entire notion of a fork was the result of chat session with Ryan Bonham and Mick (the administrator) where I was instructed that a fork is legal but they “REQUIRED” and “MADE CLEAR” they do not want “Open Realty” anywhere in the forks name. Obviously they did not want to support it which stands to reason. The forked version was to be created only because I work so frequently with MLS’s that I wanted to create an integrated solution to a few other products instead of using the Open Realty Addon system. It was not an endeavor to challenge or create conflict with Open Realty but rather a fork specifically designed to accommodate automated updates to the inventory via a live feed from an MLS.

I speak highly of Transparent Technologies and of Open Realty in all posts and in all correspondence so it amazes me that anyone could interpret ill intent toward either. I still have a forked version of Open Realty I use in nearly all projects that substantially alters three primary files in Open Realty but I’ll likely never release it as a fork. Patch ins for vTiger and our Joomla menu manager are likely never to be released either as I tend to just include them in all projects I work with.

In the past I’ve had but two tiny complaints or should I say observations about Open Realty and that was centered about the DB structure and the non compliant XHTML markup persistent from the beginning. Open Realty is a great product and I highly suggest it to anyone in pursuit of a rapid development platform for any type of listing gallery.

Photoshop Web Templates

Posted on October 3, 2007
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Interesting and hefty week of teaching at the college presented a desperate need to alter the semesters syllabus after realizing that the cutting edge is in the minds of the designers not the educators. Its been said that assumption is the mother of all screw ups and the reality of that statement rings true when you actually experience it first hand.

As an instructor for Photoshop for Web Design, its easy to fall into the assumption or should I say presumption that as an instructor I should know more and have more experience than the students I teach. As this modern world’s youth are raised in front of computers, It’s easy to realize the paradigm that the very nature, perspective and interaction between people and the expression of their knowledge is a reflection of how they were raised. Second nature to almost every student this semester, the computer and nearly every facet of it including the use of very advanced software took me by surprise more so then ever before.

Students, especially those that are emerging college students, have nearly a lifetime of exposure to computers and or software. In previous times such knowledge had been the realm of those considered geeky “professional” whom of which would have invested his or her entire life to become proficient. Today its second nature for many students.

Tactics change and so does the syllabus for Photoshop Template Building. More than just a trivial post, I’m forced to rethink my approach in the Rapid Template Design Kit tutorials which I’ll address yet again.

Until then, happy posting.

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