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For those of you looking for CTAR MLS information this post should help.

Creating a custom CTARIDX, first you need a feed.

The person you need to speak to if you are looking to create a custom IDX via CTAR MLS is Jennifer Blalock, she is the information technologies manager. She can be reached at 760-9400 x 116 or via email at jen@charlestonrealtors.com

From the CTAR website:

Jennifer's duties consists of network administration and support of technical hardware and software. She also plans upgrades, supports and maintains software for the Association. Jennifer oversees administration for internet-based member services and administers changes to ctarMLS website. She serves as the liason for all technical and MLS vendors, as well as the MLS user groups

For those interested, raw data feeds are available for BROKERS ONLY! This does not mean associate brokers, you must be the broker of record for your office. One benefit though is that it allows for better policing of the IDX rules and regulations as there are far fewer brokers of record than their are agents in the Phoenix metro area.

Here is the exact verbiage from ARMLS.com

Web Developers - FTP data access is only available for the Designated Broker of the office.  We do not take requests for FTP access from anyone except the Designated Broker.  Please direct your client to the Subscribers Only section of our web site to access the FTP for IDX request form (under Technology and IDX).   If your client is a REALTOR subscriber, then FTP access is… Read Full Post

Many members of the REW forum ask, how do I go about creating a custom IDX for my website? The programmatic challenges to this are complex and will be covered in a subsequent blog entry, however before one can even go about coding a custom IDX, one must first have a raw data feed set up by their board. So I decided I would document in my IDX section how to go about applying for such a data feed and the processes unique to each board.

In order for me to do this I will need to gather the following:

• MLS Board Name
• MLS Board Website
• Technical Contact for the board
• Locations of application forms
  
• Rules and regulations
• Fees associated with each type of feed
• Types of feeds
• Server requirements
• Availability…

I just realized that there isn't a distinction between category and sub category levels here at the REW Blogs, I would like the sub cats to only show if you are already in the main cat section or any subsequent sub of a main cat.

REW templates and CMS already use this technology and it it would be sweet from an organization perspective. Read Full Post

Just a note to myself to install google analyics on the REW Blogs Read Full Post

One of the most important thing for keeping a clean and active blog is managing your comments - we need to create a notification such as "You have x amount of comments in your queue waiting for approval" - this should be on the main page when a user logs into their REW blog.

What other notifications do we need here? Read Full Post

Just wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday for this impending end of 2006. Read Full Post

(PHIL DO NOT CHANGE THE BLOG DESIGN I LIKE IT, just look at the specifics I am posting here) 

I really don't like the contact links all over the place on comments - check out this post (Look at the comments) http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/ryan-ward/203/show/

The comments section looks like crap because it has a link to my blog, a link to contact me, my name (Also a link) and then my pic.

What I would rather this looked like was my picture (I really like this element and want to keep it, perhaps with my name directly under the pic as a hyperlink to my blog (Link to blog important) - and find a way to make a better use of that space.

Now onto http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/all/ - once again a really poor use of space, I like that…