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How To Create and Use iFrames and Tables on Your Blog

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams NE, Kingwood Texas (Humble & Atascocita too)

Wow!  This is an early Christmas present from Brad.  One I know I'm going to enjoy over the next few days.  And I'll be sharing my creations too. 

Original content by Brad Andersohn Non-Licensed

How To Create and Use iFrames and Tables on Your Blog

Last week I promised to create a post explaining how to add iFrames and tables to your Blog posts.  Instead of making this a long drawn out technical "How To" tutorial, I decided to make it really easy for those of you interested in using this feature.  It is HTML based and does require a little HTML skill, but I think the way I'm about to show you will totally simplify the process and keep you from losing your sanity! lol~

The hardest thing you'll have to do is switch the tabs at the top of your New Blog Post from "WYSIWYG" to "HTML"  then you'll just need to copy the code onto the HTML page where you want your iFrame to appear, then save it.  Can't make it much easier than that. So let's start with the iFrame. The purpose of Adding an iFrame to a Blog post is so that you can share a large amount of information in a very small (customized) space.  Maybe a website, or an interactive page, or even an entire Blog for example.

Here's an iframe of a site I'm sure you'll all recognize. :-) 

The size, color, width, height, URL, etc. can all be customized. Now for all you advanced HTML users and Bloggers, this is probably easy stuff, but for many of our members and friends, learning this type of stuff has been known to cause overdoses of Tylenol and in some extreme cases, even alcohol.  So here's a way for you to preserve your anxiety and stress for something a little more worthy.... I hope.

HTML Basics has setup what they call an iFrame generator.  You just enter in the information, and it creates the iFrame for you, then just copy and paste the code into the HTML tab of your new Blog post. It looks like this:

Just enter the URL of ANY page you want to appear in your iFrame, never make it wider than 550pixels if you don't want to Blow Out your Blogs sidebar, select any height you want, give it a name, set the alignment, maybe add a border with some color, setup how you want it to scroll, and generate the code for your Blog post.  This is much easier than trying to explain the HTML which you're about to see once you generate the code anyway. Once you become familiar with the iframe code, you won't need the generator anymore. Now try it yourself. 

Here's the iFrame Generator site embedded in an iFrame for you.

Suggestions: Try using your MLS page, your IDX page, your Website, one of your Blog posts, maybe your AR Outside Blog, any page that's on the internet will work as long as you have the URL or website address.  You can use iFrames to add some additional value to your Blog if this is something you're interested in. Now just be creative and imagine all the ways your clients, visitors, and subscribers might benefit from your using custom iFrames in your Blog posts.

Are you ready for tables now? Here's a link to a table generator, you'll be a pro in no time at all!  :-)

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             Susan Brown       

Susan Brown, Your Texas Connection, Keller Williams Realty

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Comments (7)

William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Thanks Susan.

Even those of us who've been here can use a reference site.

Bill

Nov 29, 2009 01:23 AM
Donna Galinsky
Allen Tate Company - Cornelius, NC
Make Lake Norman Your Home!

Thanks. I-Frames always through me for a loop. Appreciate the info and I have bookmarked it for later use.

Nov 29, 2009 01:27 AM
Frank Rubi
Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA
FrankRubiRealEstate.com

Susan, I thinks this is great you can share information and the viewer will never leave your site. Thanks.

 

Nov 29, 2009 01:28 AM
Jeremy Williams
Red Hawk Coaching - Kingwood, TX
Business Coach, Husband, Father, and Dog Wrangler

Susan, great info on iFrames.  You are taking your blog to a new level.

Nov 29, 2009 02:26 AM
Susan Brown
Keller Williams NE, Kingwood Texas (Humble & Atascocita too) - Kingwood, TX

William, I always enjoy what Brad blogs but this was particularly enticing.

Donna, I can't wait to actually try this!

Frank, Absolutely.  And anything I can do to keep my viewer with me is worth a try.

Jeremy - Thanks.  I have been working hard on learning the new tricks!

Nov 29, 2009 07:10 AM
Sherry Siegel, Managing Broker, EcoBroker, ABR
BrokersGroup, serving Sequim and Port Angeles - Sequim, WA

Well Susan, I think now I'll have to learn what you're trying to teach us. And thanks for the screen capture.  I can see that it's an active iFrame, so will check out whether it calculates a new total.

Dec 03, 2009 04:34 AM
Susan Brown
Keller Williams NE, Kingwood Texas (Humble & Atascocita too) - Kingwood, TX

Sherry, I reblogged this so I am by no means an expert.  I thought if it was new to me and helpful - perhaps it would be for others too.

Dec 03, 2009 06:28 AM