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What's Going On with the Active Rain Customizer?

As many of you know, Brad and Dakno Real Estate Marketing created the Active Rain Customizer many months ago to allow one and all the opportuinity to brand your blog. With the subsequent blessing from Active Rain, we worked together with AR to make it available to everyone here in the "Rain Forest". Of course, with the recent enhancement and new look and feel of the Active Rain website, things have been a bit of a mess. Needless to say, Active Rain asked Dakno to "pull down" the customizer until they could roll this feature into their systems.

So When Will the Customizer Be Back Up?

I wish we could answer that question. It really is in the hands of the staff of Active Rain. So if you have emailed Brad or I or even left a comment on our Dakno Real Estate Marketing website, we wish we could help. Unfortunately, we can not speak for AR when the customizer will be available again.

Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.

Bobby

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Posted by Bobby Carroll - Real Estate Marketing on 09/25/2008 08:16 AM

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29 Comments on What's Going On with the Active Rain Customizer?

SEP

2008

Thanks I went in a couple of days ago and saw the announcement on Dakno site it wasn't available. I'm sure others have tried too. My colors need to be tweeked, so folks can see my Search, Referrals, blogs, etc

Bobby ~ Thanks for the update. I was wondering what was going on. I tried to change my AR blog look the other day and realized that you had pulled the customizer down. I ended up deleting everything and going with a vanilla look for while.

Hi Missy - Sorry for the inconvenience. Our hands are pretty much tied. It is my hope Rich or Brad with Active Rain will chime in and offer some information.

Hello Ryan - We were asked to make a few adjustments to the customizer which we did. Now it's really up to the AR team to take the next steps with the customizer.

Bobby, the customizer is a great tool and I've used it often to make changes. And I want to thank you for it and hope it will be back soon.

John March

I havent noticed this yet...I guess it is due to the fact that I haven't tried to adjust mine....

I think Jorgen is working on this Bobby, we had some challenges trying to reach Brad last week. I'll look into this and see what we can find out. Is Brad around this week or next? We may need to have some dialogue with him to enable us moving forward. Thanks. :-)

Greetings John - Just our gift to Active Rain for all their generosity to Brad and I!

Jeremy - As soon as it is available, jump on it! You'll love the way your blog looks.

Hi Brad - He is available this week so feel free to give Brad a call! Life was really choatic last week as we were wrapping up our real estate licensing course and preping for the course exam.

I am bumping this so I can bookmark it... I didn't know where to find the customizer

Hey Nick - The customizer address is http://www.activeraincustomizer.com/ when it is restored and operational.

SEP

2008

I've been wondering the same thing! I need to change my header since they removed the Active Rain logo from the upper right corner. Now I have a white spot where that logo goes and I can't change it. It's driving me nuts!

Hi Lisa - Me too! Count on someone from the Dakno team writing a post on the Customizer availability as soon as it happens.

Me three, count me in, I'll be posting about it as well! lol~
With the AR logo gone from the right side, mine looks really dorky now...

I heard a little birdy say we might have it transitioned to our servers by the end of this week.
My fingers are crossed. :-)

Hi Brad - Everyone's blog is looking a little sad including mine. That's good news. Please keep me in the loop.

After I read Brad's intro, I got all excited about trying out the Customizer. Please bring it back soon before I pass out from hyperventilatation!

hurry

Bobby - Thanks for the update. I have to give you firm a plug because I utilized Dakno for setting up my ActiveRain skin template and I couldn't be happier.

Hi Silverbridge Realty - Hopefully AR will have it restored very soon.

Greetings Sam - Always glad to help!

I know! I can't figure out how to change the username to my name instead of my company! Oh, well, the mojito probably doesn't help.

TGIF,

Robin

'Glad I saw this before I invested time in revising my banner. As you pointed out, banners need a little tweaking now that the ActiveRain block is gone from the upper right. I think this tool really revolutionized AR, and I hope they realize how important it is to the AR experience.

Margaret - we do realize and are working hard to not only get it back up and running but to improve it as well. We are working on it as we speak. You'll be happy when it's completed and released. Shouldn't be much longer now... :-) Thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding.

SEP

2008

We will be waiting. I am sure it's worth the wait. Just designed a new layout for my blog that I'm excited to try. Thanks for chiming in regarding the updates!

SEP

2008

Phewwwwww! I just spent a few hours trying to find the info on how to customize my blog page, before happening upon this post in a round about way. I found so many other things along the way...stopped to watch Mad Men....and then FINALLY: voila. So that's it then - I guess I'm going to have to actually write something instead of putting it off by tweaking and decorating and designing...YIKES.

SEP

2008

Yay, I am happy now! Thanks for all your hard work, AR Customizer Team Guys!

Robin

Okay, Okay...the changes were well worth the wait. I like it, a lot. It is very user friendly and extremely easy to use. Just plug in your "Header" and "Background" selections and Wa-La you are set. This is a wonderful tool that allows the Blogger to personalize his/her Blog. Awesome!

I am getting ready to make an announcement about the AR Customizer. Post should be up by this evening. We are working on a couple minor issues, but I'll have some great news for you in a few... :-))

Great, I have been wanting to change my header ad wondering about this

OCT

2008

Bobby - Thank you so much for this update. I know I was one that was hitting you up for this last week. I actually contacted someone at AR and they told me, "don't know contact you"...too funny! I have issues with using the customize header because I use some HTML in most posts that when I implemented the header it instantly turned all the white areas in my posts to black.. perhaps an easy fix, don't know! I was frustrated and couldn't get anyone to help so I gave up! I love the idea and hope to use it in the near future! Will keep an eye out! Thanks for the update!

Thanks to everyone for your comments. Active Brad has formally annouced that the Active Rain Customizer is now avaliable through your "My Home" page. Simply click on the customizer button and have at it.

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