The ARE-TEC Blog: All Things IDX, Website, and Techno-geek

This question has been flying around lately. An IDX is a just way of showing listings online. That’s it. IDX is an Internet Data Exchange – the MLS is exchanging data, over the internet, with others. Most MLS’s are willing to provide a raw data feed – like a big text file - of the MLS listings to...

What better way to position yourself as the market expert than with constantly up to date graphs of local market conditions? But it can be hard and time consuming to constantly update those statistics. Not anymore. With access to your MLS, the ARE-TEC charts can automatically create - and automat...

Have you ever wanted a mini-home search to put in your blog sidebar so that your blog visitors know immediately that they can look for homes on your site? Or how about embedding one in your posts about a neighborhood? It'd be pretty cool to embed a little search for that neighborhood right there,...

We all need a good way to feature our listings and keep our sellers happy. What better way than with a special listing gallery widget that automatically knows which listings are yours and displays them without you having to constantly change it? That's an example of a listing gallery. Right now, ...

Behold, the Search Cube. Welcome to the ARE-TEC IDX Solution - created by agents, for agents. Go ahead, play with it a little, get a feel for how it works. This is an example that displays the Tucson MLS. The whole idea behind this IDX solution is powerful simplicity. There's a lot of capability ...