Comments on: Anti-DIY

By: Missy Caulk

Missy Caulk — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:25:44 +0000

Nick, if it were not for AR, I doubt as many bloggers would even know where to begin.

They provide a great service for beginners. I STILL need help on my WP blog with all those darn plugins and updates.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:36:29 +0000

Dan – I dont offer website design services like Nick so how is my comment a plug? Duh.

By: sheilabragg

sheilabragg — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:32:40 +0000

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By: Dan Connolly

Dan Connolly — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:31:17 +0000

Fred,
Cute comment, but sounds more like a plug for yourself.

By: Mark Eibner

Mark Eibner — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:16:22 +0000

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By: fred

fred — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:39:38 +0000

I never disagreed with you! I think most agents need help. I do think WordPress is the way to go, but going beyond the basic template design requires lots of work, learning css, php, and html. I know for a fact, I handle all my own sites.

By: Nick Bostic

Nick Bostic — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:32:33 +0000

@Chuck – Great example. I recently stumbled across one of my first domain names from over 10 years ago to realize I had actually built a blog platform and I have years of experience with HTML/PHP/MySQL, but when I first got started with WordPress, I paid someone to help me get fast tracked into all of the nuances of the system.

@fred – Interpret it however you’d like. In Oregon, I can get my real estate license for less than a thousand dollars, which would be significantly less than the amount I’d pay a REALTOR to help me with a transaction, so I might as well just get my license. If REALTORs are going to play at being graphic designers and HTML experts, why shouldn’t more people get the relatively easy license and do that themselves too? I’ll admit, there are more than a handful of REALTORs who have a previous life in multimedia and I can understand them doing it themselves, but in my day job (which keeps me so busy I don’t need to plug myself) I keep running into REALTORs who can’t even use Outlook, yet are encouraged to setup their own WordPress blog instead of using ActiveRain.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:50:26 +0000

Cute post but sounds more like a plug for yourself :p

By: Chuck G

Chuck G — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:19:07 +0000

Nick,

Even the most advanced DIY bloggers need to seek help sometimes. I hit some technical glitches with my site that were either caused by a WP upgrade or a wounded database… this was way beyond my comfort level of tinkering.

So, I established contact with the very nice guy in Indonesia who created my WP theme. For a very modest spif on PayPal, he ripped things apart and got the site running better than ever.

The best part? I developed a great new relationship with someone half a world away.