Archive for August, 2010

Ryan OGrady

Richardson & Wrench Mobile Phone Website

Richardson & Wrench Mobile Phone Website
August 2010
m.rwm.com.au

We’ve just finished deploying a real estate mobile phone website which allows Richardson & Wrench Mosman to market their current listings, sold listings and agent profiles to browsers using mobile phones. The site has been optimised for all the leading phone browsers across the World including iPhone and its popular functionality.

The mobile phone real estate website also comes with web forms which capture all details entered by browsers, Google analytics and also our own analytics for each property page allowing you to track page views. You can check out further information about our mobile phone real estate solutions.

Ryan OGrady

Real Direct

Real Direct are a real estate agency who do things a little differently than your normal real estate agency. They therefore needed a real estate web designer who could explain their different offering through their website. We were required to take one of our standard WordPress real estate themes and adjust the homepage layout along with create specific HTML for other pages illustrating their services and products.

Ryan OGrady

WordPress 3.0 for Real Estate

Well WordPress 3.0 has been with us now for around 2 months and let me say…..“it’s making our life a whole lot easier”. Why? Because is now means we can have all of our real estate websites powered by one set of plugins installed on one ftp account and one common database. Once it is setup it is saving us hours a week in maintenance time and even new website installations are now a lot more streamlined.

Some Q&A’s in relation to our experiences with WP3.0

  • Have we found any bugs with WP3.0? None at all.
  • Did we need to modify our real estate plugins for the Multi User section of WP3.0? 90% of the plugins worked with a few plugins we needed to account for the combined database of all sites. Overall, there was only a few days development needed for the adjustments.
  • Can each site have their own url? As long as you install WP with the sub-domain for new blogs you can then mask the blog url with any url the client would like to use.
  • Are there any SEO disadvantages with domain masking? None at all, as longs as you make sure your sitemaps plugin is a WPMU plugin.
  • Is WP3.0 one of the best wp releases? Absolutely, this enables a whole lot more innovation and if you follow this blog you will see some unbelievable innovation appearing in the coming months.

Ryan OGrady

Place Double Bay

Place Double Bay
August 2010
www.placensw.com

Place Double Bay are one of the leading contemporary real estate agents in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. They attempt to push the envelope in relation to innovation and their energetic approach to the real estate industry. Their brand oozes fun, energy and success and this is betrayed through their web solution.

We’ve used our standard WordPress technology and customised the design slightly. If you look at the team member page you will see they have opted for a tile layout to more easily sort through team members.