Search Results Archives: September 2011
This was my first website EVER. Doesn’t look like much now, but in 2001 it was quite the site. 
Flash accordion menu, a page for arrest photos and press releases, lots of graphics work. Those were the good old days when everything was hand coded. No databases, no Dreamweaver, no PHP.
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.
I took over development or The Neil Company in about 2005 or 2006. Since then I’ve done 3 total redesigns. Franchises like this are a challenge because you have to take the client’s wishes for design and make it work within the legal constraints of the marketing guidelines of the parent company.
Along with all the normal IDX stuff, Neil Company also wanted to be able to add/edit/delete broker bios from their website on their own. As time went on, it morphed from a very basic name, phone, email and bio to social networking icons, a property list along with the bio info, multiple contact numbers and so on.
I have also integrated a custom WordPress blog to help them with their search engine ranking. Neil posts a helpful real estate related article a couple times a week and, voila, they’re ranked much higher in Google.
The latest iteration of their site includes some pretty cool features like accordion menus, Google maps showing other similar listings within a certain distance of the listing you’re looking at, mortgage and tax information on each listing and integration of a special C-21 lead router deal that lets them track email leads from their website and print ads.
All in all a pretty cool site for a very cool client.
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.
