Today will be the official launch date of my new Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Homes blog found at www.PhoenixArizonaRealEstateHomes.com. I want to personally thank all those that have helped to inspire me, motivate and encourage me along the way!
First and foremost I want to thank and formally acknowledge Brian Gardner, a true talent for developing wonderful WordPress themes, my favorite be the Revolution City! Through his fantastic forum of moderators offering reliable and timely help and other purchasers of the Revolution Themes, I have met some amazing people from all over the world.
I, personally want to thank a particular forum member, Ade Walker who has helped me tremendously with this new learning curve. His outstanding patience's, willingness and knowledge is absolutely amazing. Without Ade to run to my rescue through the development of my Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Homes blog, it would have never reached this day to share it with all of you!
Thank you Ade from the bottom of my heart! You were a true Godsend and what I consider a great new friend. "You Rock"
I have to say the new learning curve working with Wordpress.org and implementing plugins, hosting accounts, CSS, PHP and all the other geek language that goes with it has been frustrating but yet invigorating just the same! My new blog will be sharing much about the Phoenix Arizona real estate market, the trends, area market reports, events, an online portal for buyers and sellers to investigate the home buying process in Arizona. My hope is to provide excellent information, real estate opinions and provide exactly what you want to hear and read about!
Please always feel free to share your opinions, thoughts and suggestions. It's just a click away to contact me. I would love to win you over as a regular reader and have us share and grow together! Please note that since we are in our infancy here at Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Homes blog, it most likely will have some changes and adjustments along the way! If you are interested in working with Brian Gardner and his wonderful themes, please contact me and I can work with you on getting a new outside blog started, answer any questions or get your started. Also you can find lots of information on starting a new blog at AZ Real Estate Blogging Network, a great resource of tips from top real estate pro bloggers willing to share and teach how to get started. I look forward to my new journey and getting to know you better! If you have any questions or suggestions please don't hesitate to contact me direct. Please feel free to leave a comment on PAREH blog today!
May you have a blessed day,
Candace Robinson
HomeSmart Real Estate
Candace- Your site... she's a beauty! Excellent work! (pretend I wrote a few more exclamaition points there. it's that good.)
Whoo hoo! There she goes! I will be over checking it out right now! Congrats on getting it out there!
Chuck - Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a work in progress and will no doubt be tweaking for a while! Thank you for noticing! I appreciate it.
Doreen - She..I'm back now out of the blogging cave! I feel I can breathe now and just have some adjustments, but more educated on Wordpress...and a little css and php, but a long way to go! Lots of people that have inspired me and cheered me on, including you! Thank you...so when are we getting yours started?
Candace, it's gorgeous!!! (psst..I've been peeking in on it since I saw you on the support forums) Unbelievable what you have done with a template and it is perfectly you.
You know my thoughts... amazing... beautiful and done to perfection. Good luck with it .. who know you might be onto another career
Hmmm, I'll have to come over there and be taught...
CANDY - The new blog looks great (which I fully expected). Best of luck with it.
Candi - It looks terrific - I would have expected nothing less from you. Great job!
Candace, You have a great looking blog. It's a standout! I was looking at the Revoulution themes last week... I like the city one the best also. Who are you using for hosting?
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Hey Candace, wonderful! Good job, and I'll be checking your stuff out. This stuff is so time consuming. Good to have you back. ;-)
Candace I am speechless. It is truly gorgeous! Your long hours and hard work are evident. I wish you much deserved successes.
Lisa - Thank you, I am doing the same, watching you work on your Revolution City theme too! Keep up the great work, I know how much time it takes, it's been a long hard month for me..but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel...pssst...Ade (adew) is amazing in the forums...keep an eye on his tips, he is amazing!
Desiree - Thank you my friend, I have had my head buried in this and the learning curve has about killed me, it's more work than I ever imagined. I have so much more to learn and yet it's fun, exciting and hope I don't have to start a new career! The objective of this darn blog is to intrigue some new readers/clients, I hope they like it!
Doreen - Anytime, I think I am going to have to get others together to keep my skills fresh and on the tip of my brain...call me anytime...I'm ready, it will help me too!
Adam - Thank you...your kind words and continued support is wonderful. It's all part of your fault, since coming to AR and getting the blogging bug, you were one of the first AR members I started interacting with and I'm grateful for that! Blog On, Brother!
Jason - Thank you, yet another first connection for me on AR that helped me get the "blog bug" it's been a work in progress and I am still tweaking, one wrong move and it can mess up the entire page. Who ever said CSS & PHP was easy, huh! Thanks for the encouragement my friend, hope all is well.
Ginger - Thank you!! I love BG's themes, if you think about using them, don't hesitate. Brian is actually working on some new Real Estate themes, so you might want to give it some time til he gets them out. No doubt they will be perfect! As for hosting, I am using, DreamHost, I use FileZilla (Firefox) for FTP and it seems to work perfectly! Of course my blog is best viewed in Firefox...IE still shows some glitches that I need to work out. Thank you for your comments, don't hesitate to call if you decide to go with Brian Gardner's Revolution Themes, open for questions anytime. The support forum is amazing!
Teri - Thank you! Yes, it has taken a boat load of my time and other things have been neglected. I am about 95% there now and sure over time will be tweaking here and there. Afterall, I couldn't be the only one that didn't take part of the 'outside world' (Jay Thompson's verbage) and be on the team at AZREBN....now could I? Thanks again for your continued support, let me know if you find errors. I think my eyes are just toast after all the hours staring at the blog!! Thanks much.
Leolinda - You are so sweet! Thank you my friend. It's been a long hard road and I've learned so much but yet so much still to learn! I consider myself such a rookie. There is no wonder why these designers and programmers get so much money for this stuff, there is lots to the gears and machinery behind these blogs! Thanks for taking notice! Hope all is well.
Candace: That looks absolutely gorgeous. I think you will do very well with it. I honestly cannot think of any header that I have seen that looks as good as yours. Once again... Way To Go !
Karen - Thank you so much! You words are so kind after all the long hours of putting this together from scratch and no knowledge. This definitely was a learning curve for this brain of mine! Time to rest it. Thanks for stopping by! Sure miss you all.
Job well done Candace!
It'll never be done. But the bulk of the tedious stuff is over, and now the real fun begins!
Welcome to the Phoenix blogiverse. You've just helped cement Phoenix as the epi-center of real estate blogging.
"Outside world" seemed more politically correct than "real world"... ;)
Jay - Thanks again! I agree, it will never be done. I am sure, like you I will change up, I am already thinking of other themes etc. Crazy huh? All the hard work is done, I should just walk away now! Thanks for welcoming to the group, I hope to make the Phoenix bloiverse 'proud'.... I'm liking the outside world...perfectly correct indeed!
Candace- congrats my friend and now bask in the glory if only for a moment before you forge ahead!
Candace - Great job -- I am impressed. Well, now that you learn all this stuff you can teach the rest of us. Our Guru of the Desert. Congrats!
Congratulations, Candace! I know how hard you worked on this, and it will bring you a great deal of success. I'm going to put it in my feed-reader right now.
Lori - Yes...it's time to kick back for a few... Oh wait, I see another fix to be done...it's how it is! Thanks for your comments!
Kevin - The problem is Kevin is retaining it! I'm here to help, just don't make any promises on what I know! Thanks for your comments and continued support!
Paul - Yes, it's been a huge project and honestly, I think it's been all worth it. It's a forever work in progress however, now it's time to get yours going!! What say you? Thank you for your support and readership!
Candace,
You have absolutely outdone yourself! Beautiful, beautiful site...you should be proud! You've given me a few pointers and for that I appreciate it! Congratulations!
Cheron Lange
Cheron - Thank you for your comments! Hope all is well!
Over the TOP candace - but then I expected that from you:)
Congrats - great job looks awesome and very consumercentric
Sincerely,
Grace
Grace - Thank you very much. I appreciate you words and encouragement!
Candace, I am so excited for you. I know how large that learning curve was! We both have the bags under the eyes to prove it. I haven't been over to the forums for a couple of weeks. Up in Alaska trying not to work too much. The new blog is great!
Candace - Everything you touch turns to gold. Once again, you set a shining example for us. Congratulations.
Jo S. - Yes, you do!! We have been in the trenches together on this Rev City theme! Sleepless nights in Bremerton and Phoenix! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate it!
Tom - Thank you for such supportive words my friend. It was nice to hear your voice today. So glad things are moving along for you and Laura. Thanks much always!
Looks great! You can tell you put a lot of work into this blog. Job well done!
Cindy - Thank you! I am glad to hear good reviews, exactly what I was looking for: good, bad & the ugly!!
Janice - Thank you very much, it was a lot of work for a rookie with Wordpress, but I'm learning and lovin' it!
Hey that site looks very familiar! Candace... it was so good seeing you again... I'm just wondering where we'll run into each other next time.
Candace- Oh My Gosh! This is so gorgeous! So beautiful and classy, like majorly! I love all your wonderful art work and text and so much more!
Chuck - it was great to run into you 'again' at the ARMLS Tech Fair on Thursday! Did you have a great time? Perhaps we will see you Friday at the AZREBN at Macayo's in Tempe at Depot Cantina from 4-8pm with other AZREBN members. Bring your wife/family or friends, coworkers...bloggers...bring the your whole neighborhood!!! LOL
Katerina - Hey there, THANK YOU!! It was fun to create, design. The AZREBN was a fun one too.
Hi Candace,
Wow! Now I know where you've been hiding...absolutely beautiful blog....very classy and filled with excellent info already. I can see everyone in Arizona and those thinking of moving there will be subscribing.
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Jo
Hi Jo-- yes it has taken me some time to learn a new hobby...WORDPRESS... php, css and other tricks of blogging and hosting. It's all great since I have the AZ blogging networking group here, it's just as well I learn what they are talking about, right? LOL... I miss you and hope all is well. I have six months to catch up on everyone!
Congrats and best wishes on much success which I know is headed your way.
Thanks Tracy - I appreciate your continued support!
Nice blog and new site. I will be taking notes as I re-start mine and upgrade my presence here in AR and the great outdoors.
Wow great site, congratulations!
Michael - thank you! let me know if I can help in any way. Also find some great tips with our AZRealEstateBlogs.com site that is real estate professionals helping others with blogging for business!
Freddy - Thank you so much, I appreciate your comment!