Technology

ButterHomes is dead. Long Live ButterHomes!

Technology

The new theme is an obvious update to my website. The complete overhaul on the backend is not quite as obvious, but a much larger task! Gone is the web presence that has served us so well for the last couple of years. Gone is the familiar header – a picture of a beautiful home [...]

28 July 2008 Read the full article →

Google Warning Removed

Technology

update 1/2009 – this post appplies to the former ButterHomes.com website (http://www.butterhomes.com).  The current website you’re reading (ThePhoenixAgents.com) has never been hacked, hijacked, or seen any other nefarious activity.. Apparently there have been quite a few people whose websites have been hacked in a similar fashion. I don’t know how somebody placed their own code [...]

25 July 2008 Read the full article →

WordPress Categories are back!

Technology

The most frightening thing that happened during this ordeal of upgrading to WordPress 2.6 was potentially losing ALL my categories. You may have noticed my switching back and forth between different themes; this was partly because one theme didn’t show any categories at all, and the other theme showed how many posts were in each [...]

25 July 2008 Read the full article →

WordPress Permalink issue resolved

Technology

My permalinks broke when I upgraded to WordPress version 2.6. This means that when you click on the title of a post, instead of seeing that particular post and its comments, you see a ‘file not found’ error message. The fix took an hour to find, and a minute to execute. In the settings area, [...]

25 July 2008 Read the full article →

That was a MAJOR ordeal

Technology

I had two major web site challenges this week. Google’s warning that my site was potentially dangerous. About a week ago I learned that Google had flagged my site as potentially distributing malware. Not good. I spent several evenings searching the web, digging through my site, and running virus scans on my files, all to no [...]

25 July 2008 Read the full article →

Product Review – Microsoft OneNote

Homeowner Help

I’ve been using Microsoft OneNote for the last 6 weeks, and I have to say it might be my favorite software application ever!  It’s similar enough to other MS Office products that you’ll intuitively know how to use it, but it has enough differences that it takes a little getting used to before you’ll feel [...]

17 June 2008 Read the full article →

Backing up data

Homeowner Help

Fact of life: hard drives crash. computers fail. files get deleted. I’ve spoken with 2 people recently who have complained about recent computer crashes; one of them lost a large amount of digital photos. I’ve personally had 2 computers die over the course of the last 4 years. It happens. You’re working on it at [...]

21 May 2008 Read the full article →

Welcome to Page Rank 4

Technology

It seems as though Google shuffled the deck yesterday and re-assigned page ranks to various webistes. I’m happy to say we got a promotion to Page Rank 4 (out of 10). What exactly does a Page Rank 4 mean? I’m not sure, but when I look around and see that other real estate bloggers whom [...]

30 April 2008 Read the full article →

Wanted: one High-Quality Phone Headset

Technology

I’ve been on a long-time quest to find a phone headset (bluetooth not required) that makes a cell phone conversation sound as good as actually holding the cell phone up to my ear. Today I purchased my 9th headset in the last 2 years. I had an old-fashioned, corded, over-the-head headset with my old Treo [...]

30 April 2008 Read the full article →

Effective use of technology

Technology

I’ve always had a problem with technology, and it’s a different problem from most people. I’m technologically inclined, I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and I can sometimes be a control freak. Take these three facts together, and it’s easy to see why I don’t use a lot of outside tech-help. I always think I [...]

22 April 2008 Read the full article →

Mortgage Lenders Imploding

Mortgages

Is the market really that bad? Are mortgage companies (and real estate companies) really going out of business? Check out The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter. I’m not here to spout doom & gloom, but I’m not wearing my rose-colored glasses either. I’m not even going to offer an opinion on the marketplace (at least, not in [...]

11 April 2008 Read the full article →