{"id":1279,"date":"2007-04-09T06:33:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:35:54","slug":"advances-none-remarkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1279\/advances-none-remarkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Advances, none remarkable."},"content":{"rendered":"

The blog is coming together. Our homework was to find a theme and artwork that represent our markets<\/a>. Sounds like fun, huh? Well it was and it wasn’t.<\/p>\n

I love to paint, but I work differently than many artisits. I work with 6 colors maximum: red, yellow, blue, black, white, and brown. From that limited palette, I can create any color I want. This means I create nearly every color that is put on the canvas as I rarely use paint straight from the tube. Much of my time is spent creating color and mixing paints, but I love the process and it gives my work color like no other artist. The only reason I bring this up is to confess that when I went searching for a theme, I kept finding the “feel” of computer generated color and art entirely too flat and cold and sterile and unnatural for my taste. Oh well, sorry about your luck, Lussier. It is 2007, so time to buck up and deal with it. There are thousands of themes available, and while I found them oddly similar due to the medium, I did find one that I could live with.<\/p>\n

I had nothing whatsoever to do with the downloading and uploading and whatever else is involved in getting a theme up and running. I picked a theme, gave Greg the url, and he took care of the rest. Why? Because he can do that stuff in 15 minutes and I cannot. Greg is a great coach and I’m not only learning about blogging, I’m also learning about real estate, and here’s what I’m learning: if your time is put to better use elsewhere, then farm out the stuff you can’t\/ won’t\/ don’t do and let yourself do the voodoo that you do so well. So, thanks to Greg the theme is up.<\/p>\n

But the default banner wasn’t up to snuff. Hmm. I thought this was going to be even more difficult than finding a theme. I spent a good bit of time looking at other successful real estate blogs. There are skylines or archtecture or buildings or Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blog is coming together. Our homework was to find a theme and artwork that represent our markets. Sounds like fun, huh? Well it was and it wasn’t. I love to paint, but I work differently than many artisits. I work with 6 colors maximum: red, yellow, blue, black, white, and brown. 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