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How To Customize and Personalize Your ActiveRain Blog

By Brad Andersohn

Education & Training with Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp Non-Licensed

April 15, 2008 02:51 AM

You may have noticed all the personalized Blogs lately here on ActiveRain. I hope this post will help you customize your Blog and join in with the crowd. If the video tutorial does not display, CLICK HERE to view.

POST UPDATE: 12/2/2008 - There's A New Customizer Now, this one no longer works.

NOTE: This video is of the Original Classic ActiveRain Customizer, be sure to see the update and link below for the New Customizer and Tutorial. This video will no longer apply to the MOST CURRENT platform on AR.

If you need help with customizing or personalizing your ActiveRain Blog, feel free to contact me anytime.

POST UPDATE ON: 12/2/2008 - There's A New Customizer Now!

We have upgraded and updated the ActiveRain Customizer. Please visit the New and Improved ActiveRain Blog Customizer. Here are the instructions and information. Thanks and Enjoy!! :-)

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Regina P. Brown

MBA Broker Consultants - Carlsbad, CA

M.B.A., Broker, Instructor

Brad, the new link is broken, it wouldn't open anything! How about a fresh, new post with the new info?

THANKS,

Regina Brown

Dec 11, 2008 05:59 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

We are working on the network right now, as soon as we are back up and running, I will make sure these links are working. Thank for your patience. :-)

Dec 11, 2008 07:51 AM

Stanley Cobb

Realty Executives, Coastal Empire - Savannah, GA

Realtor - Savannah

Brad, This is what MY Home looks like. I am unable to find and use the new customizer. does anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong?

Stanley Cobb

Dec 11, 2008 09:48 PM

Anonymous

Brad,

I am embarrased to keep bothering you about the customier, but here is my last post about it.

This is what I get when I try to go to http://activeraincustomizer.com

Index of /

Name Last modified Size Description

	images/	15-Sep-2008 12:54	-
	img/	15-Sep-2008 12:54	-

Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8b Server at activeraincustomizer.com Port 80

Thanks

Stan

Dec 11, 2008 10:04 PM

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Ella Glover

Lubbock Homes - Lubbock, TX

Thanks for this great help. I am pretty new at this and can use all the help I can get.

Dec 23, 2008 03:45 AM

Tom Ikonomou

Tom Ikonomou - eXp Realty - Vancouver, BC

Innovated Marketing Specialist

Hi, I am unable to find out how to center my blog. The main page is more to the right part of the screen with the background only showing slightly on the left.

thanks in advance for any help

Dec 23, 2008 05:37 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Tom - In many cases its due to a photo or image that is too large in one of your posts or on your Blog Sidebar. It can also b from embedded HTML code from 3rd party sites which include widgets, flyer's, video etc. You'll need to review each post to try and find the culprit. Let me know if you need more help. :-)

Dec 23, 2008 05:51 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Lubbock Homes - here if you need. :-)

Dec 23, 2008 05:54 AM

Glen Kotulek

Home Critique Property Inspections LLC - Austin, TX

Austin Home Inspector, schedule online www.homecritiquepi.com

Thanks for the Blog! Looking forward to being creative so I can look good too! Howdy from Texas!

Jan 20, 2009 02:15 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Glen - you're lookin good!! :-)

Jan 20, 2009 06:49 AM

Christianne O'Malley

Dickson Realty - Reno, NV

Exceptional Service - Delivering Results in Reno!

Brad - I am hoping you can help me. I can't customize my title and summary of my new AR outside blog. When I go to the link through my AR Home panel, the five icons show up at the top of the outside blog. If I click 'info', I see some canned information there. I type in there to change it, but there is no "enter" key to complete the change. Then it always just reverts back to the original information. Anything you can tell me to assist would be greatly appreciated.

Feb 06, 2009 02:31 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Christianne - I just noticed this yesterday working with another member, it has been reported to our tech guys and we'll get it fixed right away. Thanks. :-)

Feb 06, 2009 03:33 AM

Bob Dunn

Sutton Group West Coast Realty - Abbotsford, BC

Can someone tell me the resolutions that are acceptable for a banner. I had a banner made with Adobe at 1200 DPI which wouldn't load. I compressed it to web size with Microsoft Officed Picture Manage which did load but it is very fuzzy.

I will design another but I want to get the DPI right this time.

Bob

Feb 10, 2009 04:13 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Try 960x134 for the outside Blogs and 960x130 for custom AR Blogs. .jpg is the best compressed format for images. Hope that helps Bob. :-)

Feb 10, 2009 04:17 PM

Bob Dunn

Sutton Group West Coast Realty - Abbotsford, BC

Man this was fast. You've were sitting just waiting for me to ask a question. :-)

Thanks

Bob

Feb 10, 2009 04:27 PM

Bob Dunn

Sutton Group West Coast Realty - Abbotsford, BC

That was pretty slick. I was using 950x126. Information from an old blog posting.

Thanks a ton for your assistance.

Bob

Feb 10, 2009 04:33 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Bob - we are committed to our members and this network, you are no exception. Glad it worked for you. :)

Feb 10, 2009 04:53 PM

Tarris Rogers

Cascade Sotheby's International Realty - Bend, OR

Bend Oregon Real Estate

I swear Brad, I must have done the customization of my Blog the hard way. I don't remember having a website like that when i customized my Blog. Great Video though for helping people know where to go and what to do!

Sep 30, 2009 09:12 PM

Ryan Case

SCA Real Estate - Anaheim, CA

877-828-0710

Where is the new customizer. I am lost trying to find it!

Oct 23, 2010 12:58 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

SCA - it's on your "my Home" page. There's a link on the left hand side that says (Customize) right next to the "ActiveRain" link.

Oct 24, 2010 02:28 AM