Viewing your site before it goes live - Flush DNS

Posted on February 27, 2008
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How to Flush DNS - See New Site Before It Resolves Live!

One of the greatest techniques ever used by responsible web designers.

I was chatting with Mack McMillan of UltimateIDX the other day when we got onto discussing the subject we frequently encounter with clients.  Many times clients want to see their blogs and websites prior to them going live and many times that isn’t easily done without some clever techniques I’ll reveal herein.  After having encountered this many times I realized that I should come up with a small guide on "how to build and view a site development prior to it going live"  when I came up with a little tool to distribute in order to help. So this post is generically in response to a common question being asked in forums.   Read more

Open Realty Products Announced

Posted on February 17, 2008
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FREE Plug-ins - Add-ons for Open Realty

Google Maps, CSV loader and Flash Slide-Show for Open Realty are going to be included in the upcoming release of the new templates.  After the release of version 2.5 of Open Realty, all the designs I have harbored will be released free of charge.  On the horizon is also the Open Realty Add-On for custom forms which will feature an authentication method called "Session Token".  This FREE Add-On will work on any page published in Open Realty and will be fully customizable in similar fashion to the custom fields feature in Open Realty.

Available now commercially is the Dynamic FLASH Slide Show for listing details pages that replaces the java-script method.  The price is $24.95 and can display listings photos by a multitude of different transition effects. Fades, wipes, scrolls, and more.

Also currently available is the google maps feature for listings details pages.  This is currently a commercial item for $19.95 and will eventually be included in any commercial template being offered. A scaled down drop in version as mentioned above will be made available for free.

Now Hiring PHP Coders

Posted on February 17, 2008
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Seeking PHP / MySQL Coder

Are you a good PHP coder who can code snippets quickly?  I’m looking to hire another PHP coder to help with some small customization and snippets for projects we are working on.  I’m taking all my years of code that we have held for commercial projects and converting them for FREE resources in my new resource directory.  I’d like a person to be well versed in PHP 4+ and although 5+ is the current thing its not the supported thing universally so I need someone who is conscious of that.  I’d like the coder to also be well versed in code sanitation to prevent potential security issues in these old snippets once updated.

The criteria for the coder is as follows;

  1. Commit to a 25 projects minimum and charge accordingly.
  2. Have a valid phone number in either the US, UK, or Canada preferably but not required.
  3. Can be paid by certified funds or a verified PayPal account.
  4. Must use my RTDS (Rapid Template Design Series) coding guideline.
  5. Should understand AJAX and certainly databases.
  6. Should understand XML at least from a dynamic generation perspective.
  7. Must code cleanly with well commented code.
  8. Dont Steal other peoples code. 
  9. Must be at least casually familiar with a few open source applications and have a good understanding of string replace type template engines.

Please contact me using this sites contact form and in your contact please include a phone number and the times of day or week you can work.  Please be fair and competitive in pricing.

Real Estate Webmasters - New Resource Index

Posted on January 30, 2008
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Real Estate Webmaster Resources

After doing a substantial amount of changes to my 4 main blogs over the weekend I came to discover in my directories that I had about 40 important and very usable code snippets that would be truly beneficial for those who are in the development of Real Estate Websites.

I’ve setup a nice little snippet section on one of my sites and then proceeded to take my licensed copy of Code Warehouse 2007 code snippet application and basically create a web based interface that features many of its features in an attempt to make the new section truly easy to manage code snippets and to provide them in a way that is familiar to those that use code manager applications.

I first started out with Open Realty being the base platform for the design of the online snippet DB only to switch to an old modified version of Joomla where I core hacked the menu section to emulate a desktop application familiar to many Windows applications especially to such snippet managers.

Code Resources for Webmasters IDX / RETS and vieleRETS

Over the years I’ve accumulated literally gigabytes of code that have been either modified, abandoned, semi-discarded and half organized only to just take up and waste space.  A great deal of it is salvageable and over the course of several months I was able to scape enough bits and pieces of time to assemble all of these code elements into my code snippet database.  That’s the good part. The frustrating part is that I can’t share it easily with coders I work with frequently aside from cut-n-past methods.

So, all that IDX / CRON / MLS / RETS and other code snippets will also be going into the new online snippet DB.  I’ll post a link this weekend for those to cruise the code but keep in mind that although the design is done for the snippet DB its very sparse on content as of yet.


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