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We FINALLY added a spell checker to the editor.  Really sorry about the very, very, very long wait.  To use the spell checker just click the ABC check mark box on the right side of the editor tool bar.  It will then underline spelling mistakes with red-squiggles... just click on the words to see new options.

We also added "email me" links to to blog views and your profiles on Localism, making it easier for people to get in touch with you.

We changed the way the contact form works.  It pops up a new window now.  While not impossible, this is a lot harder for bots to spam - so hopefully that cuts down on spam some.  Let us know if you have problems with these new forms - it's pretty wiz-bang-javascript.  

-ben 

 
Posted by ActiveRain Real Estate Network on 01/27/2007 10:14 AM   Comments (74)   changes  

74 Comments on Spell Checker plus Improved Ways of Contacting You

Thank you.  A simple tool like a spell-checker is possibly the most valued and appreciated.

01/27/2007 07:09 AM by Ed Rybczynski (Rybczynski Consulting)

Thank you, much appreciated.

01/27/2007 07:15 AM by Tim Maitski "Secret Agent Guy" (HomeAtlanta.com)

Ben, Good morning and thank you for the hard work, spellcheeeeeccckkkk is a great tool.  I won't use it right now , I don't want to wear it out just yet, I think all my spelling here is correct.  Have a great day.  Bob

01/27/2007 07:15 AM by Bob Sloop, Consultant, Indianapolis, IN (RS Mortgage Consulting)

AR Staff,

Thanks for listening and getting this feature implemented.  You have made a lot of us a little happier today!

01/27/2007 07:16 AM by Ron Withers - Mortgage Professional (Sr. Loan Officer, LMB) (Town & Country Mortgage Services, Inc.)

Oh, clever ones, what will you bless us with next!

PS: Are the clicks from the network or from both the network and the public?  Are the counters smart, as to whether a click is inside or outside?

01/27/2007 07:23 AM by Paula Walter. Ph.D. e-Pro REALTOR (ReMax Best Associates)

Yes! Yeah! Yahoo! Yipee! no I guess the correct spelling is Yippee!

some of my favorite words.... 

surprise

separate

acknowledge

refrigerator

all spelled correctly now...thanks to AR 

01/27/2007 07:24 AM by Maureen McCabe - Central Ohio real estate (Real Living HER)

Anything worthwhile is definitely worth the wait! Thank you.

01/27/2007 07:27 AM by Margaret Rome- Baltimore, Md.-HomeRome.com (TREC-Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome)

Thank you so much for the spell check and the rest of your hard work too!

01/27/2007 07:36 AM by Lysa Napolitano, Call Coordinator ~ Century 21 Sundance (Century 21 Sundance)

Ben...

"wiz-bang-javascript"......

Am I supposed to know what that means? :)

Your new spell checker doesn't.

Okay. I admit it, I'm just messing with you :)

P.S. Are the comment notification check boxes going to be fixed soon?

TLW...ROAR!

01/27/2007 07:42 AM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)

Guys, you are doing great - thanks for the upgrades.

Don't want to sound ungrateful, but is there any chance of allowing us to add words to the Spell Check?  It would be nice if my last name and my city didn't trigger the red squigglies.

One of the tricks I learned here on ActiveRain was to highlight my post and then use the spell check on the Google Toolbar.  It is so quick andyou can edit and add your won words - which is real nice.

Keep up the good work.

Now Have a Blessed Day,

John Occhi, Hemet CA REALTOR
www.johnOcchi.Com

 

01/27/2007 07:43 AM by John Occhi Hemet CA Real Estate (Allison James Estate and Homes)

TLW:  I've heard about this notification bug from a few people but can't reproduce it.  If you have time could you go into "gory" detail on how and when this happens and send it via the Contact ActiveRain link (bottom right of all screens) so it gets in our feedback loop and we can track it?  

John:  We were hoping people would just use Google Toolbar or build in things like the spell checker in FireFox but everyone wanted to editor spell checker as well.  It's REALLY limited in terms of what we can and can't do with it.  To put this in perspective, the editor we're using (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/) is something like 10,000 lines of very delicate code... customizing it has proved to be very tricky (kind of like "can you add this feature to MS Office")  :)

We're working on better editing options as we realize the editor we have isn't exactly the "cats pajamas" and most of us write somewhere else and then paste it in (which, really, might just be the best solution).

01/27/2007 08:02 AM by Ben Wiseley (ActiveRain)

Thanks Ben.  The new changes are great.  I really like the email option.

01/27/2007 08:05 AM by Southern Indiana Real Estate ~ Brett Mumaw (Semonin Realtors)

Excellent! My days of spelling errors are over!

01/27/2007 08:12 AM by Jennifer K Giraldi, Atlanta REALTOR® Atlanta Real Estate Expert (Solid Source Realty Atlanta)

Ben,

Thanks, and good things are worth the wait.  Keep up the great work.

01/27/2007 08:28 AM by Ray Nellum, Fort Smith Real Estate (Warnock Real Estate, LLC.)

A BIG kiss to you guys! I can't spell for beans!!!

01/27/2007 08:47 AM by Monika McGillicuddy~REALTOR®~ N.H. Real Estate Broker & Trainer (Prudential Verani Realty/Hampstead)

You got it  :)  TLW...ROAR!

01/27/2007 08:49 AM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)

Done...Look for "attention Ben Wisely"  TLW...ROAR!

01/27/2007 08:59 AM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)

Thnaks fro leting  us knw. Its smthing I relly neded.

Jeff

01/27/2007 09:02 AM by Jeff Dowler ~ Carlsbad Real Estate ~ 760-840-1360 (RE/MAX Associates)

I see one problem with the spell checker.

YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY USE IT.

Lenn

01/27/2007 09:13 AM by Lenn Harley Homefinders.com MD & VA Real Estate

Horray! You are spoiling us...which leads to asking for more  ;-)

OK, Now is there a function we can add to not lose the work we are typing. I know some people do their posts in writely or word doc and move it over... If we can "park it" (TLW word) and get back to it that would be cool. (like a incomplete function or draft function)..

Possible ??

01/27/2007 09:13 AM by Michele Connors, Broker in Charge (Coldwell Banker First Realty Morehead City)

Wahoo!!  Great Stuff...Thank You!  Now I have no excuse!  Wait a minute...wahoo isn't a word...ooops

01/27/2007 09:19 AM by Ravi Shah (Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® )

YIPEE! One other little thing, is there a solution other than typing a graphic for every comment we make?

01/27/2007 09:20 AM by Suzi Gravenstuk, MS Broker License # 17787 (MGC Realty, LLC)

Can Active Rain get any better?  Ofcourse it can.. just when you think you have the best, it only gets better!  I am sure I am speaking for others here when I say this that I have seen some poor written blogs, comments and this definitely does help those individuals out (if they use it).  Thanks A/R Staff!

01/27/2007 09:25 AM by Nima Rezvan (Mortgage Broker)

Michele:  We already have a draft option... when posting just change :Visibility: Public to Visibility: Draft 

Suzi:  We do the stupid "typing the graphic" thing to prevent spammers from writing a 3 line program to comment on every blog on the site... I know - it's a hassle.  We're working on some other spam prevention techniques... maybe this will go away soon.

TLW:  Best bug report ever!  Thanks - it should be fixed going forward now.

01/27/2007 09:29 AM by Ben Wiseley (ActiveRain)

Ben...

Ooops. I may have accidentally just sent you another bug report.

I did not know we should NOT respond to a finalized bug report :)

Please laugh at my last message and then delete it. LOL....

P.S. Thank you. It's working now. Ahhhh....Wonderful :)

TLW...ROAR!

01/27/2007 09:51 AM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)

Thanks for enhancing the editor. This little tool will make us all look a little more polished by catching those typos that inevitably pop up when we're furiously typing to get our thoughts down on blog! ... How ironic, there's a red squiggly under 'blog'.

01/27/2007 10:05 AM by John Novak - Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate (Keller Williams Realty The Marketplace)

Woo hoo - super duper! Thanks

01/27/2007 10:35 AM by Cape Coral Real Estate Broker | Susan Milner | Florida-Future-Realty.com (Florida Future Realty, Inc.)

Great improvements.  The pop up box should eliminate much of the spam.

01/27/2007 10:39 AM by America's #1 Mortgage Broker

Thanks for yet another enhancement - Active Rain and Localism continue to build the infrastructure for success!

01/27/2007 10:42 AM by Tony Marriott, Associate Broker, CRP, CLHMS, CRB, CRS ~~ Phoenix Arizona (Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners)

I've been using google spell checker, thanks to Kristal Kraft who wrote a blog sometime ago how to use it.

Maybe now I will spell check before I post rather than post and edit.

01/27/2007 11:05 AM by Mitchell Hall, Associate Broker, New York, NY (Coldwell Banker Previews International)

This newbie says thanks a million!

You guys are da best, and GO BEARS!

Lynda Eisenmann

01/27/2007 11:07 AM by Orange Co. Real Estate~Lynda Eisenmann, Broker-Owner, CRS,CRB,GRI,SRES, Brea, CA (Preferred Home Brokers)

The improvements sound great but ever since the late great Paul Sullins told me about the spellcheck in the Google toolbar I've been using that.

01/27/2007 11:20 AM by Roxanne & Shannon Moore-Realtors, North Port FL (Re/Max Anchor Realty)

I use Firefox 1.5.0.9 (the latest version) and Windows XP SP2 with the latest updates.  The three times I attempted to use the spell checker it crashed Firefox and put me back to the Windows home screen.  In each case I had to restart Firefox and re-log into AR. 

01/27/2007 11:27 AM by Dan Bales, Broker

Thanks Ben (and Maureen)- I didnt realize and now will venture out to say this is becoming so very easy and beginner friendly that there really are no excuses left to start hammering out some posts!

01/27/2007 11:48 AM by Michele Connors, Broker in Charge (Coldwell Banker First Realty Morehead City)

One of my excuses for not using google bar spell checker is that I am clinging to remnants of the old IE 6 on a tool bar.  I could select google as my default search and drop a fourth tool bar on my screen.  Or, I could buy a bigger monitor.  hmmm.   There are other things I enjoyed about the google toolbar.  But thank you for all your efforts.

01/27/2007 12:03 PM by JudyAnn Lorenz, PREVA (Bar JD Communications)

Thanks so much! I love having an "on board" spell check here on Active Rain. Although I have the Google spell check and the new Firefox with a built in underline for questionable spelling, an extra layer of spell protection is great! (I always blog on the fly instead of using a text editor offline first, as I probably should.)

I like the constant improvements here on AR, and I appreciate that you listen to the members as you make those changes and improvements.

 

01/27/2007 12:44 PM by Angela Parker (WickedWriter.com)

Spelling checking is a great addition to the tools. I went back into my most recent post and it correctly identified several misspellings/typos which I would never have caught without it.

I also like what you are doing with the "email me" contact options.

Thank you for your continuing efforts to add good practical features. 

01/27/2007 12:44 PM by Lawrence Yerkes - Broker Associate, Southern New Jersey Real Estate Services (RE/MAX Suburban)

Thanks for adding the spell checker and the "email me" link.  We appreciate all of your continued improvemnents.

01/27/2007 01:09 PM by Jim & Maria Hart ~ Charleston, SC Real Estate (Agent Owned Realty)

Woot! An integrated spell checker. I can quite using the google one. -Charles

01/27/2007 01:17 PM by Jacqulyn Richey - Las Vegas Real Estate (Prudential)

awesome!  Of course, firefox has it built-in :)

 

 

01/27/2007 01:24 PM by Craig Bartels (Crager-Bartels Real Estate)

Thank YOU! Dankie! Toda! Cam on! Salamat! Takk, Merci! Misaotra!

01/27/2007 01:35 PM by Rice Property Management & Realty, LLC

Thanks for improving an already great site.

01/27/2007 03:31 PM by David R. Fuller (Realty Executives)

Yay! Thank you for spell check. 

Can you look into the problems with the comment notifier?  For some reason it is not working some of the time.

Thank you,

01/27/2007 03:34 PM by Laurie Manny, Long Beach Homes - Long Beach Condos (Main Street Realtors Long Beach California)

Hav ya'll got a southern spel chek? We don use all the wasted silbals and let'rs down her':)

01/27/2007 04:12 PM by Bryant Tutas-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc

Hats off adding these new features, it will help us and it will help AR in general. The improvements are important.Thanks!

01/27/2007 04:16 PM by LLoyd Nichols~SW Florida Homes (Right Choice Realty LLC)

I guess I no longer have an excuse for typing fast and having typos in my comments and blogs.  Thanks for the upgrade.

01/27/2007 04:39 PM by Knightlines Mortgage Services, LLC

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

01/27/2007 06:01 PM by Sharon Simms St Pete Florida CRS CIPS CLHMS (RE/MAX Metro)

As always........ THANKS for all the hard work!

01/27/2007 06:33 PM by Kansas City North Real Estate :: Fran White 816-682-3897 (North Kansas City Real Estate, Reece and Nichols Residential)

and I thought that popped up because of Google toolbar or something... Is it good that every-time a cool new feature pops up on your computer you just assume it's from Google?

01/27/2007 07:05 PM by Tanya Kulaga REALTOR® CRS, ABR, GRI (Realty Executives, Hedges Real Estate)

Can't say anything that everyone else hasn't already said, but THANKS! Spell check is a must for some and will help improve the overall impression that consumers will have of us (HOPEFULLY) lol. Thanks again!

01/28/2007 01:46 AM by Ryan Hukill - Edmond Realtor® (Hukill Group - Paradigm AdvantEdge Real Estate)

I am so happy to see the spell checker.  Mahalo, Mahalo! (Thank you in Hawaiian)

01/28/2007 02:51 AM by Randy L. Prothero - Hawaii REALTOR® (Century 21 Liberty Homes)

spel cheecker im awesum.

Thancs.

01/28/2007 07:00 AM by Rob Robinson- Lehigh Valley PA (Bertrum Settlements (Title & Abstract))

Man, its all comming together! now can you work on getting the weather to warm up a bit?  how about by spring time?

Thanks AR!

01/28/2007 08:23 AM by Chris Drayer (FloorPlanOnline)

Firefox itself does not have a built-in spell checker.  One is available on the Google Toolbar as some AR's have mentioned when it is manually added as a Firefox extension.

01/28/2007 08:59 AM by Dan Bales, Broker

Dan:  Firefox does have a built-in spell checker. I don't personally use Google Toolbar (as it adds everything you browser to their indexes and I don't want our testing environments indexed into Google which are, sort of, hidden because only a few people ever use them).

You probably haven't updated in a while... it's native in version 2.0  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

01/28/2007 09:18 AM by Ben Wiseley (ActiveRain)

One thing that I continue to be impressed with about Active Rain, is how often the staff responds to the members requests for improvements.

If you keep this up, AR will have every feature every realtor ever wanted in a blogging platform. 

Three Cheers for the AR team!

  1. Hip, Hip, Hooray! 
  2. Hip, Hip, Hooray!
  3. Hip, Hip, Hooray!

01/28/2007 10:31 AM by Rich Schiffer, REALTOR, e-PRO (Weichert, Realtors)

Rich:  That's what I'm afraid of  ;) (joking)

 

01/28/2007 10:34 AM by Ben Wiseley (ActiveRain)

Ben,

I stand corrected.  Thank you for the clarification.

I am using Firefox 1.5. and do not usually update to the latest version until it has been out for a while especially when it is a major upgrade.  You may be aware of the recent IPOD version update problems. I got hit recently by Microsoft myself.  I had  Windows XP set to "auto update" to get the latest security fixes.  However, Microsoft decided to include Internet Explorer 7.0 and so, without my knowledge IE 7.0 was installed.  While I prefer Firefox, many of my real estate web programs and Metrolist MLS do not support it forcing me to use IE.  Guess what, I had problems with IE 7.0 and so uninstalled it.  When I then used IE 6.0 it no longer worked properly.  I called MLS support who walked me thru over half a dozen setting changes to have it funtion as it did prior to the installation of IE 7.0.  I was told this is happening whenever someone goes to IE 7.0 and then uninstalls it which is happening quite often.  Needless to say, XP is no longer set to "auto update"!

Dan

01/28/2007 11:20 AM by Dan Bales, Broker

If it's possible to change the spell checker in any way Ben you might tell it that "NRA" (National Rifle Association) is not an acceptable substitute spelling for NAR. ;-)

 

01/28/2007 11:58 AM by Jim Lee, Knoxville Tennessee Realtor® (Realty Executives Associates)

hey.. have I mentioned recently that you guys ROCK!!

definition: ROCK (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

01/28/2007 12:19 PM by Nick M -Realtor®-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)

Ben, I have just two words for you: SEARCHABLE COMMENTS.

keep up the good work!

01/28/2007 01:48 PM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)

Maureen/Dmitry:  Didn't I tell you I'd do that ages ago?  Ooops - didn't write it down... spaced it!  I added it to the "must get done now" list so I'll have that out hopefully in the next release or, worse case scenario, the one after that.

01/28/2007 01:53 PM by Ben Wiseley (ActiveRain)

Yay :)

Now I wont hav to be insekur abowt leafing comets or possts!

 

Thmks yu giys1 ;)

01/28/2007 02:05 PM by Christina Botteri (Clientor, Inc.)

Thanks for Spell check.  Used it and loved it.

01/28/2007 02:27 PM by Ava Lugg "Selling Real Estate in Snellville, Grayson and Loganville" (Bridgewell Realty Inc.)

Ben,

Again kudos to the Crew for their tenacity and perseverance to make this the best site on the net. Thanks!

01/28/2007 11:22 PM by William Collins, Broker Associate (ERA Queen City Realty)

Now that we have a spell checker, my blog about typos will seem much less relevant:

The Funny Thing About Typos

 

01/30/2007 09:51 AM by Rich Schiffer, REALTOR, e-PRO (Weichert, Realtors)

Thank you Ben !! 

01/31/2007 03:24 PM by Lauren Corna, Broker (Archway Realty, LLC)

Subject: Only 55 out of 100 can read this.   Don't even think about using spell check!!!!!!!!   If yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs?   Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.  i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty   Uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.  The Phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan   Mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't   Mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,  The Olny iproamtnt tihng   Is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be In the rghit pclae. The rset can be a   Taotl mses and you can sitll raed It Whotuit a pboerlm Tihs is bcuseae   The huamn mnid deos not raed ervey Lteter By istlef, but the wrod as   A wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas Tghuhot   Slpeling was ipmorantt!

lol

02/02/2007 12:58 AM by Laurie Manny, Long Beach Homes - Long Beach Condos (Main Street Realtors Long Beach California)

Laurie.. funny thing is that I rad through your comment as if it were spelled correctly. wierd! ;)

02/02/2007 07:54 AM by Nick M -Realtor®-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)

: > )

02/02/2007 12:18 PM by Laurie Manny, Long Beach Homes - Long Beach Condos (Main Street Realtors Long Beach California)

This will be a BIG help for me.  I've never been a good speller.

02/18/2007 05:46 PM by John Hruska (Re/Max Professionals Select)

Who neds spall checkn'? Not eye.

03/15/2007 10:35 PM by Todd Clark (Realtor), GRI (Your Washington Co. Real Estate Expert) (Kastings & Associates)

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