This isn't easy for me to confess... I've got a new addiction (in addition to lurking on AR). In the course of redesigning my website, I've discovered Wordpress and their Widgets. There are THOUSANDS of widgets and plugins, even many that are real estate specific (online mortgage calculator, anyone?).
None of this would have happened had my previous website provider cut in half the things you got for 'free' with their starter site. (I used to use A La Mode's free Agent XSite... check it out here: http://www.alamode.com/products/agent/xsites/) As free services go, they have a really cool setup and if you have no website at all, it's definitely a great jumping off point. I was ready for the training wheels to come off, but their fee-based site was too expensive for my taste, hence the search for something else.
Enter Wordpress (http://wordpress.org). They have themes and widgets and plugins... Oh My! You can scour the Internet and find lots of free stuff for your site that's designed specifically for real estate sites. I'm still fussing with the details of my site, but the basics are there (http://jennbeilmann.com). Now if I can just find a Widget that will beam the buyers directly to my office, I'll be all set!
Anyone else use Wordpress? Got any good widgets/plugins you can share?
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