This is a second single property website for Jennifer Cramer with Prudential Roseburg and Bill Woods.  Bill wanted to be able to showcase the beauty and privacy of his property.  What better way than with a custom website and a photo gallery?

This was a website done for a single property.  Not that unusual these days, but back in 2005, it was almost unheard of.  Jennifer Cramer with Prudential here in Roseburg came to me when her client, Bill Woods, expressed an interest in thinking outside the box a bit.  We worked together to put this site together and I think it came out great!  Heavy on design it really showcased the features of the townhouses they were selling.

Since then I have done several other websites for Bill and Jennifer, including IllaheeRanch.com, BuyRoseburg.com and FlyRoseburg.com.  I’m sure there are a couple more, but I’ll be damned if I can remember what they are.  I think I’m getting old or something. 

The Douglas County Million Dollar Club is another long term client for me.  I did their first website for them in about 2004, I think.  Prior to that they were strictly print advertisers.  A database driven website that gets all their names and contact info out there seems like a no brainer. 

The site is pretty basic.  Just two pages.  One for the brokers, the stars of the show, and a second for the affiliate members, like me.  Hopefully the broker members see a value in having their names out there.  I know that I have enjoyed working with all of them over the years.

This was a kind of cool site because it had so much design work associated with it.  The broker wanted some largish (I say largish because, at the time they were big, but these days they’re pretty small) as a backdrop for the whole site.  All in all, not a big deal, but in order to see as much of the photo as we could, I had to make the area that main body of the site went in semitransparent.  Again, easy these days.  Not so much back then.

All Oregon Real Estate is no longer a viable company, but for several years they received many compliments on their website.  It was a fun one for me.

My first international website!  :)  I actually did this a couple years ago and it’s gone through a couple different iterations.

The condo is owned by a friend of mine who lives in San Diego, but bought a condo in Loreto Mexico on the Baja Peninsula.  She needed a site that would show the beauty of the area, the amenities of the condo and allow perspective people to request more information and even make reservations.  I took a pretty basic open source calendar program, tied it to a database that would show a different background color for days that the condo was booked and allow the owner the ability to manage reservations from a back end web page.  Pretty slick, really.  I’ve used a similar system for a reservations system for LVPheasants.com.

All State Real Estate called me in a bit of a panic.  They had had two different local web guys work on a new design for their website.  Between the two, it had been almost a year.  Then, suddenly, their email was down and they couldn’t search listings, or even show their own.  Big problem for a real estate company.

I was able to give them the design they wanted, email that actually worked and full RMLS listing search within a week.

Some other cool features I was able to give them are:

• The ability to add/edit/delete brokers from their office rosters.
• The ability to add/edit/delete branch offices.
• A custom, database driven page for each of their branch offices that shows a map with a link to directions, the office’s featured listings and contact information for the principal broker.
• Dynamic Quick-Link pull down menus for getting to a branch office’s page, or a specific broker’s page.
• A property management section with the ability to add/edit/delete listings that include photos and all the normal rental information.
• A for sale by owner section that lets users upload FSBO listings that can be seen by anyone who views the All State website.

If you are a broker working all on your own, or an office with a whole bunch of brokers, I can build you a site that fits our specific needs and budget.  I’m happy to help.

One of my oldest clients happens to be a property manager in Roseburg.  Now, in a lot of ways, property management sites seem like theyshould be pretty simple.  Throw up a few pictures, a small database so they don’t have to re-type listings every time a tenant moves out, some PDFs for applications and stuff.  No sweat, right?  Well, not quite.  You see, property managers are VERY interested in being #1 in Google when someone searches for a house for rent in ‘insert-city-here’.  They also really like to have listings and photo slideshows that look the way they want them to look.  You can’t really do a cookie-cutter site for a property manager.  Most everything has to be custom.

That’s what I’m really good at.  Doing everyday, typical things in creative, custom ways.  While a lot ofthe code on the back end is already written, tested, tried and true, the way that code is implemented is different for nearly every one of my clients.  That’s what custom means to me.  There are only so many ways to write a program, but there are an infinite number of ways to display the information.

If you have a property management company, you’re a real estate broker, or you’re trying to market your very own widget online, give me a call (an email is actually better, but call sounds cooler  :) ) and let me show you what I can do for you.

My bread and butter is in creating custom real estate websites for realtors and brokers in Oregon and southern Washington. I’m a registered IDX provider with the RMLS and can provide full search capabilities for your site viewers.

Perhaps my biggest asset to you, the broker, is my custom design work.  While my websites aren’t made to be updated every 5 minutes by you or your secretary (HUGE waste of time, by the way) they are designed to give you your own look while adhering to the often strict marketing guidelines of your corporate office.  I have worked with Century 21, Remax and Prudential, just to name a few, and was able to give the brokers and agents exactly what they wanted while keeping corporate happy as well.

I offer a lot of the bells and whistles as well, but I’ll cover those in more detail in other posts.

If you have a site that needs updating, or haven’t stepped up to a custom site and are still using a database driven P.O.S. that you’re paying $150, $200 or even more, per month, contact me and see what I can give you.  Wouldn’t it be nice to see an end to that monthly bill?