OpenRealty Addons Site

Posted on October 20, 2008
Filed Under Products, Professionals In Review, Real Estate News | Leave a Comment

Hey just a little point me there note about a new site being developed by a few colleagues called OpenRealtyAddons.com. Developers Judson Cooper and Al Smith have launched a site dedicated to the development of high quality addons for real estate professionals. The new site is very likely going to be the number one authoritative site on such things given how the developers operate.

Al Smith and Judson Cooper are extremely well versed with the inner workings of the OpenRealty application and have a combined level of experience in open source projects of 8+ years. Both active members of the OpenRealty community, these developers set out to produce a landing spot or addon hub so to speak for the product they are passionate about, OpenRealty.

Be sure to check out their new venture as we all wish them the best regards in the world in filling this long overdue void in this area.

Web Design Archive – Web Resources

Posted on December 18, 2007
Filed Under Professionals In Review, Technical Resources | Leave a Comment

Only a moment this morning to make a post about a site I stumbled upon yesterday while searching for various podcast players for WordPress. As it happens, I’ve found it necessary to find a solution to insert a small pod cast player into my college blog for interviews I do with various design professionals. From time to time, various module members at SERTI University District where I teach Photoshop invites professionals in the design and development industry to speak at public seminar throughout the school year. Each of these events or seminars gives me a great opportunity to do interviews and pick the brains of colleagues in the business which I sometimes record for instructional purposes.

So, after speaking with the developers at iPress about the importance of Pod Casting we hashed out how beneficial it would be for me as an instructor to put my interviews online on any number of my blogs. Last night, I decided to take just a few minutes to locate a nice little flash MP3 player to put into blogs that I could modify to have my own look and feel when I stumbled upon a site impressive enough to motivate me to write this very post. A few minutes turned into 4+ hours as I looked at my watch, taking notice that the time was just shy of 3AM I realized bookmarking the site would not be enough justice and a post about WebDesignArchive.org would be the worth the time.

Web Design Archive – The Website

I recently added a new category on my blog here at JaredRitchey.com to reflect my thoughts and to articulate the blessings in knowing or interacting with various professionals in the industry titled “Professionals in Review”. The website, Web Design Archive, although not part of an interview fits my own little criteria of the kind of post that gets to go into this category. Although I have dozens of posts in draft state regarding some of my favorite people in the business like Bryan over at CMS Report, or Ryan Bonham at Transparent Technologies among many others, the website, Web Design Archive gets to fit under my new category because the site is not just a professional resource but is presented as a “professional”.

My many hours on the site last night netted me a lofty inventory of resources I’ll be days in organizing and writing about as a result. The website presents many post snippets about an assortment of applications, products and plugins for WordPress among other things. One thing in particular that I was able to find most useful during my hasty search last evening was the AJAX Tabbed Snippets that was most fitting to projects I’m working on with The Brokers Edge. Armed with great examples as a result the site in a span of 4 hours proved more valuable than the previous days efforts to build a tabbed interface for an Open Realty MLS search screen which took me a full 9 hours. Worthy of a visit and certainly a bookmark, you can visit Web Design Archive to form your own opinion.


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