Congratulations Cindy. Jim and his crew are marvelous and a real pleasure to work with. I didn't exactly tell him I cancelled my vacation to create the site but he doesn't need to know that,lol I think the trade off was great! There is always next year. Good  luck with the site and the classes if you are taking them are great. Great information and empowering! Thanks for the compliment on the vids too, they were fun to do. I should do more of them.

Hi Marlene, I hope you had a nice 4th. I mostly worked on research for upcoming articles. It can get a bit hairy when you want really good information to be in the post. Jim, my mentor and instructor  says be credible and provide some good stuff your subscribers will have an interest in. I got noticed by the Wall Street Journal today. Very cool. They entered my site numerous times. 

I worked on one article yesterday for over 4 hours. I had no plans to do anything special so that is how I spent the day. I needed some time to do things that I can't do and handle business at the same time so yesterday was the day to do it.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Del MAR-Did you RSVP? We should have fun.

Hi Woo Hoo Sally,

I thought it might be fun to have these vids available somewhere in the site. I didn't put them all there I picked my 3 favorites.  I got an e-mail that your site was coming up slow. I just learned how to put the html in the site, now you want a link, lol

My next lesson it to use del-icio.us. Should be interesting. Always wonderful when I hear from you.

All the best.

William

Hey Paula  So many thanks. Jim was impressed with the WSJ checking me out. Hopefully they like what see.

How was your 4th, I didn't do anything but work on research for a blog I am working on. Hoping I can get posted soon and move on to something else,lol

Let me know if you need help with anything-though i suspect you are further along than I am. But always willing to share anything I can help with.

All the Best

Thank You Jason.  The weather was unusually perfect for the whole trip and the visuals were awesome. It was as though no human had ever been there. It hasn't by the very nature of the location been over developed. More, the many small towns that knit together a sort of perfect network of community and visitor alike. Magnificent. It was a pleasure to bring it you.

William

Hello JoAnn-Thank you so much for sending me the link to the website. I forwarded it on to the designer of my site. Who knows ,he may have seen it already or was even inspired by it. I was sure there was not another sight like the one my designer did for me, Wrong!

My Dad used to say there is nothing orininal new on earth because if it exist, the French already did it. I suppose back when he was growing up, it might have seemed that way. Today, there is all sorts of original ideas, the only difficuulty is that ideas are contagious and before executed, 10 more other variations are already done.

Thanks for your very nice comments. They are so appreciated.  

Dear Debbie, You are not lucky. You are blessed! Accept the charge given to you to relect the magnificent gift through what you will accompliish in your life. It was given too you as a tool-use it. Make it come alive for others through your voice , your vision and your vitality.

Sincerely,
william

Hi Jo-Anne, I had never given thought to that in quite that way. Of course you are so correct and I really appreciate the grounding in reality. I most appreciate your locating these site and sharing hem and I am in no way displeased that I wasn't the first. Nor will I likely be the last,lol. I feel fortunate that others have made the site so popular in such a short few weeks. I feel a certain responsibility to deliver content worthy of the design. I have a profound respect for the literary. I have a great love for knowledge. I have limited expertise in both but will continue to grow and hopefully in the end measure up to the profound greatness that has always existed in both realms.

Thank you again for enhancing this post your inspiration and aspirations.

William

Jo Ann, Ornithological  Species Of Identical Plumage have a Tendency to Congregate in Closer Proximity. Birds of a Feather. I thought of that and the designer said it would take Flash to do that and the  search engines ( spiders and crawlers) do like it on blog sites. In a regular web site there seems no issue. I wanted that feature in the worst way but he said no and I accepted it.  But thank you for that creative idea. We do think alike.  :)

Do you have any idea how I get smiley faces to appear on this site. I tried to download them and attach and no luck. I didn't want to add a picture.

Good Morning Jo Ann, I took the night off last night and decided that my blogging needed to take a rest. When I logged in a few minutes ago, I was pleased to see you had commented again and  answered my question about the smiley's. 

My intent in the new site was to have the full functionality of a web site ( the core items at least), searching for homes, listings and contact info, about me, testimonials, web ads , community info, etc.  One of the fun features is that when you click on any of the 3 colored ribbon navigation buttons, the book changes color (Purple, Blue and Green). No big deal really but I definitely wanted the book to have some life and they accommodated that in the design. Thank you for your nice comments about it. How the book and the site RealEstateText Book came to be was not by chance. There was something that inspired it and I am doing a article on it. It might even be a bit revealing about me,:),haven't decided that part as yet.

I used to use a site with animated character smilies and inserted them in most of my e-mails. They had them for any category or subject one could think of. The were not just the head of the smiling, they had been full automated and action features.  I thought they were cute. The was even a REALTOR Smiley. Usually not smiling, lol. The site itself tuned out to be giving my hard drive issues so it was deleted. I wondered if others had that problem. So I had no more smilies available to me. ( nor pictures of them).

Being a newbie in the daily writing dept, I sometimes work my self into stressful situations of feeling that I must perform Part of the reason for taking the night off was a reminder to me that must not substitute quantity for quality or I will would have no reason to expect people to  stay with me and watch me grow into what I hope will be as a recognised writer of style and substance.

Thank you again for the real effort you have  made to communicate with such a wonderful dialogue. When one looks at most articles comments it is a one or two line response, " very nice, great post blah blah blah. When one looks at the comments section of my posts, there are comments sections bigger than many of the stand alone posts. To me that , this optimizing and building a relationship. That is what I am interested in and will strive to attain it. Most important to me is to be credible and write with passion, style, and allowing emotions (the good ones) to bring about even more substance with passion.

Being a work in progress, it is always difficult  to gauge if I am on track.

Jo Anne, Thank so much for that wonderful review and insight into writing from the soul. I have read a score of the reviews and the book sounds most worthwhile. I smiled when I saw advertised the CD version. I have an ipod and and as often as I can, I listen to music and also to recorded books. My eyes tire sooner than my brain when reading and the CDs allow me to fantasize while feeling the impression of the writer as opposed too just imagining it. In particular books that inspire a re-energizing of ones self. Many thanks for your suggestion.

When I was very young, a book that I read inspired me to seek excellence in my self. It was "Promises to Keep" by Agnes Dooley. Tom Dooley's mother. It drew out a new impression of the compassion I am capable of. When I was given that book it touched me in ways that most others did not. I realized that I have an ability to also touch the souls of many. It empowers me with strength and a measure of responsibility to at least try.

Many Thanks for sharing this.

Hi JoAnn, The only book that I have even read a review on of Paulo's is the Alchemist. I have read excerpts from it. He is an excellent writer and I should have read more of his works. He is a passion and soul enhancing style that earns him rave reviews. Perhaps I will have to get a couple of them and read them and allow them to bring some new insights into my life from his perspective. Many Thanks.