July 2010
www.realdirect.com.au
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.
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
July 2010
www.propertycube.com.au
Property Cube specialise in marketing new developments, blocks of apartments and housing projects. They were looking for a real estate web designer who could allow them to effectively advertise the benefits of living in brand new apartment and housing complexes. We built a special projects WordPress plugin allowing them to highlight the benefits of each of their projects along with the properties belonging to each.
The long awaited, and I must say a little overdue WordPress 3.0 was released today. It has a bevy of new features – some in particular will cause massive headaches to larger CRM platforms providers.
New features in this release include all new APIs that allow us to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus, post types, and taxonomies. We also get the merging of MU and WordPress, which for me has always been crazy to be separate. I think the custom post types is the most important new feature as we are developing some sites that rely on this new feature. See below for video.
We must also remember that contributions to make this open source software possible come from around 218 people from many different countries). These are the folks that make WordPress the amazing kit it is and in the words of WordPress’s Matt Mullenburg “whose collaboration and hard work enable us to build something greater than the sum of our parts.”
June 2010
www.randwlindfield.com.au/
Richard & Wrench Lindfield, Sydney approached Agentpoint wanting a real estate website built in WordPress allowing them to attempt to replicate the success R&W Mosman were achieving through their blog and weekly newsletter.
The website uses all of Agentpoint’s latest WordPress plugins creating a super WordPress website which provides website users with an abundance of features and widgets. We’ve also implemented our enhanced Subscriptions Manager plugin which allows the client to automatically build their database through the website forms. Property and News alerts are then automatically sent to this database on a daily basis.
April 2010
www.forsaleforlease.com.au
For Sale For Lease (Forsaleforlease.com.au) are the leading agent assisted or owner assisted website in Australia. Based in Melbourne they required a real estate website which allowed vendors to add and manage property listings. We built the website using WordPress and created a real estate plugin allowing vendors to list properties and make payments through a payment gateway which we integrated with WordPress.
Our web designer was required to integrate third party advertising into the design making sure it was not to intrusive for website users.
The WordPress 3.0 Beta came out today. From their blog:
This is an early beta. This means there are a few things we’re still finishing. We wanted to get people testing it this weekend, so we’re releasing it now rather than waiting another week until everything is finalized and polished. There’s a ton of stuff going on in 3.0, so this time we’re giving you a list of things to check out, so that we can make sure people are testing all the things that need it.
Can’t wait to look into it, especially given it is merging wp with wpmu through a super admin dashboard. This will make deploying real estate solutions for franchises with numerous offices a breeze to manage.
March 2010
www.davidpascoe.com.au
David Pascoe Real Estate are a small real estate agency based in the Adelaide Hills. They were after a cost effective real estate website which allowed them to have a complete & effective online marketing solution for their agency. Through using WordPress we were able to provide them with a real estate website which allows them to connect with their audience online through their website and social networks.
We’ve also included a WordPress plugin which allows their database to build automatically through the website and then keep this database informed through real estate, property and news alerts.
February 2010
www.ddrealestate.com.au/
D&D Real Estate were looking for a real estate web developer and designer who could provide a real estate solution which conveyed their brand and experience in the Parramatta area of Sydney. They have a large database of sold and leased properties which we were able to promote through a real estate WordPress plugin we created for them. We also integrated flash into the homepage to highlight the agency’s core strengths.
January 2010
www.myhomeisforsale.com.au/
Myhomeisforsale is a real estate website which helps property vendors with the private sale of their property. We were required to adjust our existing real estate software Zoo Property so it would allow vendor access to list and manage property listings.
The website itself contains an abundance of real estate information for property vendors and allows them to signup and pay for their property listing through a secure payment gateway.