Thursday 7 August 2014

Tip Of The Week – No More HTML Coding In The MLS!

Some of you may have seen this ad in the Bulletin Board MLS. Some of you do not see the Bulletin Board MLS. Others have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, either message board or HTML code. Let me clarify one of these points. Let's talk about the other later.



Have you seen some ads with colorful scrolling text in the Comments field? Maybe Agent Notes, Address Book, Note or Sales? I know some of you have because you have sent us an e-mail asking how. Or do you put a warning citation of us because it goes against the rules of the MLS. So what about this?

Basically, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language of the internet. For most people, it looks a bit like the Matrix. But as in the film, if you look at long enough, you start seeing the actual message.

The history of this field starts when we first went to an Internet-based MLS system. Those in the know began adding HTML codes text fields of your ads. Those who know tried, but very often made mistakes that affected all the ads that appeared on the same page as the one encoding. They messed up, you might say.

Because of this, the committee of the MLS in 2002 decided it would be against the rules. A couple of years after that, the MLS system were programmed to perform the encoding to work. You can write in the field, but it would not work. That ended that.

Fast forward to 2014 we have a new Internet-based MLS system. Entrepreneur’s agents and assistants decided to try the new HTML code in your text fields and found that it worked.

I'll confess. This was against the rules and does not work in the system for so long that I forgot the matter, until I saw an ad. Reminder of an old theme.

At the request of a couple of agents, this was taken back to the MLS committee will revisit this year. They again decided against allowing it. So the MLS has rescheduled has been set to not allow encryption.You can hire web design company in Newcastle for your next design work as they are professional guys.

This time you'll get a warning. If the system finds that the coding in any of the large text fields, you get a come as soon as you try to leave that field message. The system removes or characters that identify the encoding, which effectively breaks the encryption but leaves the rest of the character to be seen. Or you can cancel the warning and manually remove the encoding. This is the recommended action. If you do not, and try to move to the next field, the system displays the warning backup.

If you currently have the code in one of your ads, list any change will give notice to fix the problem. If you do not find on your own, you will get a friendly warning citation to correct the violation of the rules.

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