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Colors, Colors, Everywhere! How To Add Color To You Active Rain Posts! UPDATED

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Colors, Colors, Everywhere!
O.K! Here You Go Missy and Teri, who asked me how I do this and those of you who wondered how we did these colors.

There are two ways that you can do the colored fonts. If you just want a real simple change of color in one sentence or two then follow these instructions:

After you draft your post in the Active Rain platform in WYSIWYG ( the plain text editor), choose post to draft. Make sure that everything is how you want your post to look, all the images in the right places and all your spell checks finished. HTML and WYSIWYG are not interchangeable so you must post to draft after you make any changes in either format. Sometimes I have problems with HTML saving the colors if I move back and forth in the editors even after posting so I make sure everything is finished in WYSIWYG first.

Now go back to your post and click edit. Your new draft post come up in edit mode. Make sure to click on the HTML tab as shown below.

active rain html

Now you go to to the sentences you want to change colors. Right before the sentence starts you will need to add your color HTML code.
For Red you are going to use the following code:

textSee my update below, I have to put the code in the comment section, sorry about that.

Your sentence is the word in the above code, 'text'.
Make sure that you go to the end of the sentence and add the code that stops the font. In HTML whenever you want to stop something you must use the / symbol with the > which means to end. If you miss this part you will end up with every word after the first < being the colored font.

Now you can do this with all the primary colors. You can use "purple", "yellow", "green" and so on.

Once you are done with all your color changes click on the submit button to draft. Then go back and check to make sure all your colors are there.
This is the simplest way to change colors of your text in your posts to Active Rain. UPDATE: When I went to give you the code last night, it was here and it was right, but then sometime during the night or this morning, the html code turned to the word red in red. So I am putting the code in the comments below, please look for the code there.

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Posted by Nestor & Katerina Gasset Realtors® Wellington Florida Luxury Homes on 02/29/2008 09:07 PM

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59 Comments on Colors, Colors, Everywhere! How To Add Color To You Active Rain Posts! *UPDATED*

FEB

2008

Thanks! I'm going to bookmark this and try it next time I post (if I remember)!

OK great info but so over my head I am not sure I can do this and sell real estate..I thing I am getting to old to new learn tricks but oh so want to. Or maybe hire an assistant that has all the tricks mastered.

ant

Thats too simple! Thanks, now I can be COLORFUL!

Another good lesson. I had a vague idea, but you gave the details.

Thanks

Great little tutorial, Katerina. I suspect we'll see a lot more "color" on ActiveRain after people read this!

This is totally cool....Im naive to this hi teck stuff.....thanks.

Mary Warren, Las Vegas Real Estate

Mary- I am sure you will use the colors now that you know!

Eric Reid Lawrenceville,GA

Or even a virtual assistant, they charge 30 per hour and I know one who can do all this stuff.

David Spencer Chicago Metro Real Estate

David- See, now that it is easy you can add color to you posts!

Jon Zolsky, your Daytona Beach connection

Jon- It is quite simple and takes a couple of times to practice and then you are good to go!

Margaret Woda, Maryland REALTOR

A teeny tiny one that can really add some punch to posts!

Larry Bettag Vice President

Larry - Thanks for commenting. I try to do at least 2 tutorials each week, so stay tuned to this channel for more.

Colors do make it more interesting, and eye catching.

Great tutorial. Just be careful - too much color can detract from a serious post!

Another great tutorial and another one of your posts that I have book-marked. Thank you for sharing with us Katerina!

Well color my World! er, blog! Thanks! : )

MAR

2008

Cindy Bryant~Houston's Home Staging & Home Stagers By Redesign Etc.~RESA~ASHSR

You can make a post eye catching and make a statement all at the same time.

Thanks for the tip. It's always better to add some fun to the blog look

Ginger Wilcox, Marin County Realtor

Ginger- I got a ton more views from consumers on my short sales post when I used color versus not using color. Just enough, not too much unless of course you are doing something fun. I would not use it on my listing posts because the photos have all the color you need on a post. For this tutorial I used a lot of color to teach the lesson. And I like to use the red to make something important. All in fun :)

Debbie DiFonzo - Rural Missouri Real Estate

Debbie- Thank you for leaving a comment too!

Deborah Burns ~ Seattle Real Estate Agent

Deborah- Thanks for stopping by and making a comment.

Joe Davis

Joe- When blogging first started they used to say that blogs should not have photos or images on them, my how times change. I love the photos on blogs, now we can add a splash of color!

Errr ... this is great, but where the heck is the "post to draft" button? I understand just enough HTML to be dangerous. Thanks for the nudge! ... but where is "post to draft?"

Gabrielle Nemes, GRI, southeast King County, WA

When you post your post go down to the bottom of your post, click the menu for posting and click draft. Sorry, I did not make it clear. Then submit the post in draft mode. Does that make more sense? Let me know. Katerina

Ummmm I don't get what code I should write. According to your text - all I put in front of the sentence where the color change is - is the word "text" in red?????

Katerina, THANK YOU !!!

I can't wait to try it out, if I mess up expect your phone to ring. Sounds easier than I thought just a little more time to write and submit.

It makes such a difference in your posts since you started doing this, really makes the points stand out.

((( hugs )))

Katerina, Thanks for taking the time to write about these tips. I appreciate it.

Katerina, I'm not clear on it either though everyone else seems to have gotten it :( But I'll give it a try and see if what I think is correct. Thank you for another "learning lesson"!

Okay, now you've gone and done it. This place is going to look like a crayon factory on Spring Break. I still do not know how to include the html command. Aren't ypu supposed to write some code like

<text:red> This is the color red. </text:red>

Clueless I am.

Oh, okay -- put the color in qoutation marks?

Oops. Please excuse my previous ramblings. Hey, I did it!

The html code I wrote was text text text text . Something tells me there's an easier way.

Katerina, Yes AR has a "bug" here. If you "edit" your post later you will lose all the color. I don't know why this is. I think that they should fix it so that your HTML code is not lost with an edit to WYSIWYG.

Nice tutorial.

Bill Roberts

I'll bookmark this so I can check back when the code is up. Thanks!

UPDATE: The code for the colors is:

 text 

What happened is that I put the code in my post. When I went to publish it, it was fine. The people commenting last night had no problem seeing the code, then all of a sudden this morning I come to the post and my code is gone!

I see comments asking about where is the code!

What happened is the system in the middle of the night picked up my code and turned it to the color red, that is why you see the word "text" in red,

I can not go back to html editor to add back in the code because it will just change back to the color again.

I can not go into WYSIWYG editor and add the code, which would work, except there is a bug in AR and it will erase all my colors when I hit submit!

Sorry for the inconvenience. Katerina

Thanks for the update. I figured it was an AR bug!

hhhm thank you!

Katerina..Re: Code for Colours,

Glad you cleared that issue Up, I was ready to jump off a bridge, as I thought "how am I missing this".

Cheers, have a great day!

Andrew J. Lenza (ABR*GRI*MBA) Monmouth County NJ Real Estate Broker

Andrew- A bug changed my code! I added an update and put the code in my comments. You have it right! Thanks for your comment. It was your comment that made me go up to my post and discover the bug's work! It was working just fine last night as you can tell from the others who commented last night. Then this morning I get all the, where's the code, comments! Thanks for adding the code too!

Thanks Katerina I booked marked so when I get adventurous I can figure out how to do it :)

Bill Gassett Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate

It is easy, just make sure you go to the comments to get the code! Thanks for commenting. Katerina

Oh you are getting way too smart sista!! Great tip!!

Katerina, very nice - and thank you for sharing. Now I feel special. ;-)

Two thumbs up to Katerina!!! What a woman!! How do you have time for a life? You write such amazingly involved blog posts - but keep on keepin on. I love them.!!!

Katerina, I did the link like in your comments and it all turned red. I did do the /> after the sentence. Anyway, I went ahead and posted in b/w.. Yuk...

I'll call you next week and see if you can walk me through it, but after an hour of messing with it I gave up.

I copied the link exactly like in your comment so I am missing something ,but Andrew got it so it must be right.

As usual, I say I am going to try it but I always find it to be more difficult than it looked. It took me long enough to add pix to my blogs. Just bare with us slow learners.

Thanks so much sharing. As a newbie this is just the kind of info I need to help move me along

Missy-

 text 

You have to put after the words where you want the red to stop. You have to tell WHAT to stop. /> just says stop, but has not command of what to stop.You want to stop the font.

You never seem to amaze me. My question is how do you dave to draft, could never find it when I am posting???

AHA! Draft is in the pulldown box for Visibility. Thank you! I'd never looked there before. Then click Post Entry.

MAR

2008

I loved this. I was getting pretty tired of black print. I really will be using this.... AJ

Ruthmarie Hicks

Ruthmarie- No, a bug ate my code! I put the code that you need to write in the comment section. Also, Andrew has it write in his comment to me about it being gone this morning! Sorry about that! It was there last night! Katerina

MAR

2008

Thanks for this tutorial, Katerina. I have bookmarked it for future reference. Great job!

MAR

2008

Katerina: Are primary colors the only ones you can use? Thank you for the crash course on HTML.

Michelle- When I do simple HTML I use primary colors only, easier, But when I did this post I used an HTML editor and then you can choose any tone and hue of a color by clicking on the chart.

Jason- You are very welcome! Thanks for reading!

APR

2008

Very nice Katerina! This seems to be a simple way to add color and leave it to you to always be such a leader in the rain. Have a wonderful week my friend.

APR

Thanks for the info, I knew you could teach me this from all of your posts I read, now I will go and try it

APR

Keith- I forgot about this post! I am glad you found it. I have some other people who wanted to know how to add color. Nvu is no longer a downloadable product, you have to use their new version, which is called, Kompozer. IT is free as well. Good luck. It was great to have you in my SEO TO THE TOP webinar.