{"id":1834,"date":"2007-08-21T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T03:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2007-08-21T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T03:18:16","slug":"a-first-crack-at-custom-real-estate-directionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1834\/a-first-crack-at-custom-real-estate-directionals\/","title":{"rendered":"A first crack at custom real estate directionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1715\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about this before<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t think I have what I want even yet. These will print 18&#8243;x12&#8243;, but I may go to 24&#8243;x18&#8243; the next time. My design skills are not the best, but I arrived that this because I wanted three things on the sign, and this seemed like the best way to get them. I wanted the name of the brokerage, the web address for the house, and the maximum amount of photo I could get. This is what I ended up with for a first attempt:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/DirectionalRight.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/DIrectionalLeft.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate photography\" rel=\"tag\">real estate photography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about this before, but I don&#8217;t think I have what I want even yet. These will print 18&#8243;x12&#8243;, but I may go to 24&#8243;x18&#8243; the next time. My design skills are not the best, but I arrived that this because I wanted three things on the sign, and this seemed like the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-photography","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1461,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1461\/watermark-play-ten-samples-for-proof\/","url_meta":{"origin":1834,"position":0},"title":"Watermark play: Ten samples for proof","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Using PicMark for the Macintosh, I built a watermark that satisfies my objective: To put a proprietary mark on photos that does not destroy the beauty of the image. 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