When I had my first major redesign of one of my websites done, it was changed from .NET (Advanced Access) to a Drupal site. I wrote about that change in a post named Drupal For Real Estate within a month of making the new site live.
Well, it's happened again... only this time I moved a site from .NET (Point2Homes) to WordPress using PropertyTown (Greg Boser's newest project)! And, if I do say so myself, it is working out better than I could have ever expected! Sticking with tradition, I have waited just over a month to post about this move (mostly to make sure everything is working correctly before sharing the site here with everyone).
Now, you may be asking yourself how a blog can be a website... if so, I would read up here for those who are new to WordPress.
First off: I'd like to give a special thanks to Greg Boser (aka WebGuerrilla) for all of his help with this new project... I couldn't have done it without you!!! Thanks to the brilliant SEO work of Greg, Dax and Cesar this has been an easy move to make!
The site I moved this time is my Scottsdale real estate sales website. Below is a screenshot of how the new site looks...
Naturally, one of the coolest features about using WordPress for a real estate website is the fact that you have a blog already integrated into the site and design. For this application I chose to name the blog Scottsdale Community News, which makes the most sense to me since it is about nothing more or less than just that.
One of the other great features is being able to have my listings on their own city appropriate pages. On this site I offer homes for sale in Rio Verde, Pinnacle Peak, Fountain Hills and of course, Scottsdale.
Speaking of features, some of you may have noticed the similarities between my old Phoenix site and my new Scottsdale site... that's because my Director Of Marketing, Max Chirkov, took our old CSS and applied it to a standard WordPress Theme. But, you don't have to be a CSS pro in order to have a WordPress site. Take a minute to look at all the WordPress Themes available for free online. Amazing heh?
Any-who, back to the new site... I have taken an extensive amount of time traveling, shooting photos and lining up details and facts about each of the communities my team serves with this site. The communities are as follows: North Scottsdale, South Scottsdale, Pinnacle Peak, Rio Verde Foothills and Fountain Hills. Note that not only do I have extensive information about each area that we serve, I now also have an extensive photo album for each community so as I blog about each, I can add photos to the blog posts and refer to the info on each individual community page as needed.
Any questions, comments or other website stories to share? Then leave a comment, I check them all the time!
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