Welcome, REW Bloggers, to the new V2 REW Blogs. As you will notice,
there are a lot of changes that have happened since version
one.
At first glance, you'll notice a much more aesthetically pleasing
layout, with cleaner lines, re-organized features and navigation –
a more pleasing user interface overall.
However, there's a lot more going on "under the hood", as it were.
We've added a lot of cool new features and tools that will help you
make the most of blogging. These features include:
- New listings management with customizable
property types, features, and statuses. Drag-and-drop photo
management for far easier image management, and extended features
on details pages inspired by the REW IDX. Such things as saved
searches and favorites for visitors, new inquiry forms, on-page
mortgage calculator, Google mapping of listings and some
soon-to-be-released syndications that will really maximize your
listings' exposure.
- Social bookmarking of other members ("Friends"
- this name will change). You can now flag other REW Bloggers that
you respect and showcase them on your REW blog, improving blog
interlinking and ease of access for readers to find complimentary
information.
- New abuse reporting - the community can now
participate alongside the REW Staff in policing the blogs and
keeping them clean of link spam and other violations of our rules
and terms of service. Clean, professional blogs mean better
authority for the entire community and thus more
opportunity.
- Profile commenting - You can now leave
comments on other members' profiles: Recommending them, providing a
testimonial or reference, etc
- WIDGETS! - This is one of the cooler features
- You can now customize your REW Blog from a selection of our
widgets. Select from current items such as user stats, relevant
reading, blog tags, friends, Flickr photos and more.
- Signatures - This should be popular - Many of
our members were adding manual signatures with their contact
information at the bottom of each post - you can now set a default
signature in your profile that can be turned on or off, and
modified at any time, saving you the time of having to create one
each time.
- Listings statistics - detailed statistics on
your listings including unique views, total page views etc
There is a lot more that I could go on about, but this should
probably be enough for you to check out for now.
I will be posting detailed tutorials on all of the new features,
and as always, if you have any questions or would like to discuss
elements of the blogs or make suggestions, report bugs, etc, you
are more than welcome to post at our
Blogs Forum.
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