Commercial Real Estate WordPress Theme
I created the following WordPress theme for a commercial real estate service approximately 18 months ago. It is not available for download or purchase.
Commercial real estate (CRE) firms like residential real estate firms typically have a brand that immediately provides name recognition, e.g., Coldwell Banker, Keller Williams, and RE/MAX for residential real estate, with Colliers, CB Richard Ellis, and Grubb & Ellis for commercial real estate.
There are a great many WordPress themes out there that could be used for commercial or residential real estate …
Real Estate Website Converted to WordPress
Valerie Sheppeard-Hankins of Coral Beach Realty USVI came to me to move her website to a new host as well as setup it up on a platform that would allow her to maintain it. As time was limited a redesign was not done.
A custom write panel was created in order to provide detailed information about a property that displays the property’s details. Each real estate listing can be assigned to multiple categories, e.g., Featured Listing, Subdivision/Estate, type of property.
For the “Hot Description” conditional statements are used so a …
Websites Converted to WordPress
I recently had the pleasure of converting 3 existing websites to WordPress. All either used a different content management system or platform.
Eat at Cane Bay
The original version used Joomla (a content management system). The client came to me needing changes made to her website. However, she had no access. So after a bit of discussion we elected to convert the website to WordPress.
Eat at Cane Bay is located on the north shore of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
Villa Marco Polo
The original version used …
Recent Website Designs
The following are several website designs that were done either under subcontract and were not the selected design concept, or they are currently under review by the client.
I work with WordPress almost exclusively, and there isn’t any website design that cannot be implemented. There are some designers or developers that think if you use WordPress you are limited in design. That is so not true!
If you need a new website design (redesign) or have a design you already love contact me to learn how I can help you.…
When You Shouldn’t DIY
There are some non-professionals that can do a good job doing their own website.
The following website owners seriously need to hire a professional.
Yvette’s: If I were living in the Panama City area and was searching for a bridal shop to find the dress of my dreams…well after seeing the site I’d certainly cross them off my list of shops to visit. Be forewarned…there’s music.
Havenworks: This site needs a major overhaul just to organize the information.
George Hutchins: Seriously who would vote for him? He …
Real Estate Website Design
Let’s just say I’ve seen more than enough ugly real estate websites. On the other hand I’ve seen quite a few really great ones.
Real estate websites should be about the real estate which is buying and selling. The agent should leave their ego out as the the website should not be all about the agent. Okay, you are some what important and should show the potential client what you can do for them, but never forget that it is about the property.
I highly recommend having great photographs of …
Redesign Finally Launched
I finally finished! There is still some work to do, but so far I’m very happy with it.
What are your thoughts?…
Redesign Coming
Well it has been at least 3 years since I did a redesign, and one is under way. Maybe two. One has a lot of color and almost finished, or maybe just do a few wholesale changes to this one. I do love the clean look.
One thing I am definitely adding is threaded comments.…
Is Email Secure?
In a nutshell. No.
A former employer advised a client that the first email is secure it’s the subsequent emails such as replying isn’t. That is so not true email is NEVER SECURE. The client had a reservations form using a SSL to collect credit card information, but then that information was inserted into an email that went to the business. There are methods to securely collect credit card information for later manual processing.
Credit card or other sensitive information should never be sent using email. Absolutely not!
Okay, there …
Fries with That?
A couple of months ago I read the following article over at Smashing Magazine which I had to agree with wholeheartedly. At a company where I previously worked design was expected to be pulled out of my ass with no time to think about it (and given crappy photos to work with), or I was sent links to templates over at Template Monster.
I will say there are at least two websites that I did that I absolutely hate!! And still hate! Shudder!!!!
It takes time and careful thought for …
