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The new RealBird photowall widget makes your listings look soooo nice

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Services for Real Estate Pros with RealBird Inc.

We just released a new listing inventory widget for your properties on RealBird I added a few examples below. This is the same widget we added to the PRO RealBird Property Search subscription a few weeks ago. It is now available as a standalone widget for your own listings that you can embed in your website and blog. Once the images are loaded, you can pan among them by grabbing the UI while holding the mouse button down. Clicking on a photo will enlarge the image and reveal your property description and links on the photo description let your visitors click through to your RealBird property website.

Update: It looks like Firefox has some issues when 2 or more of these photowall widgets are included on page. This will not be the issue for your visitors using Firefox when they view your own RealBird photowall widget because you most likely will have only one instance embedded per page. For our example we used 2, but in real-world scenario, there will be only one widget per page. IE, Safari and Chrome browsers all works fine with multiple widgets per page.

The RealBird Photowall widget


The following widget uses the default 100% width and 600 pixel height configuration, which is great if you have many active listings. Listings are courtesy of Jeff & Grace Safrin of Valparaiso, Indiana



The second example shows Kathleen Buckley's current listings in Hopkinton, MA on a more compact widget. Width has been changed from 100% to 500 pixels and height is reduced to 300 pixels. You can see how gracefuly the widget adjusts. The background color is also changed to black to demonstrate further customization options:

How to get your widget code

 

  1. Login to RealBird or register for free
  2. Go to the Widget page (top navigation on the blue bar)
  3. On the listings widget page, click the Photowall section
  4. Copy the auto-generated code to your clipboard (CTRL+C or Control+C on Mac)
  5. Paste into your website or blog (e.g. paste it into an ActiveRain post using the HTML tab of the editor)

RealBird members: As always, just comment, call or email for help and send us your suggestings too. If you are not a RealBird member yet, you can register for free here.

 

 

 

-- Zoltan 
RealBird.com

 

 

Comments(16)

Christine Bohn
RE/MAX Professionals - Gainesville, FL
The Bohn Team, Gainesville FL

Very Cool!  I will check these out!

Aug 03, 2009 11:46 AM
Kathleen Buckley
STAR REALTY Hopkinton - Hopkinton, MA
Hopkinton Specialist

Thanks for the feature Zoltan.  RealBird customer response is phenomenal!

Aug 03, 2009 11:55 AM
Jeff&Grace Safrin
F.C.Tucker 1st Team Real Estate - Valparaiso, IN
SpousesSellingHousesTM

Wow Zoltan - I now have a face to go with the emails and voice that I've communicated with over the last months - you guys are awesome! Thanks for the example (and for using our listings).

Much appreciated

Sincerely,

Grace

p.s. glad you blogged the instructions, I've bookmarked for future use.

Aug 03, 2009 11:59 AM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

Christine - Please do.

Aug 03, 2009 12:05 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

Kathleen - Thanks.

Grace - Yep, that's me. But still hiding behind my sunglasses. And here is me without one, meeting Janie Coffey in Miami two weeks ago :) 

Aug 03, 2009 12:10 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

There seems to be some issue with the Firefox / Widget / AR embed combination. The widget works just fine with the same Firefox browser when used on the Property Search website (see under the Featured Listing tab), IE, Safari, Chrome works fine on this post. Maybe it is due to the multiple widgets per post setup? Anyone else having the issues using Firefox on this post?

Aug 03, 2009 12:14 PM
Lise Howe
Keller Williams Capital Properties - Washington, DC
Assoc. Broker in DC, MD, VA and attorney in DC

This looks so interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Aug 03, 2009 12:31 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

Lise - Glad you like it. 

Aug 03, 2009 12:41 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

Janie - Thanks for the reblog !

Aug 03, 2009 01:39 PM
John Mayfield
Mayfield Real Estate Inc. - Farmington, MO

Thanks for the information!

Aug 03, 2009 02:55 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

John - You are very welcome. For help, just email or call.

Aug 03, 2009 02:59 PM
Janie Coffey
First Coast Sotheby’s International Realty - Ponte Vedra, FL
Uniting Extraordinary Homes w/ Extraordinary Lives

Zoltan, your're welcome!  I made a facebook application today with the property search feed and put it on my profile.  I am going to do a tutorial on how to do that this coming week.

Aug 04, 2009 02:47 AM
Dan Magstadt
Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc - Lake City, FL

Looks like a great deal - Hope you sell it quickly!

Best,
Dan

Aug 04, 2009 04:16 AM
Barbara Jenness
Barbara B. Jenness, P.A. - St. Augustine, FL - Saint Augustine, FL
St. Augustine FL Real Estate

This looks great and will try it out soon. Thanks for sharing. I need to read and learn more.

Aug 17, 2009 01:43 AM
Jennifer Bragg
Prudential California Realty - Santa Barbara, CA

Thanks for sharing. Will have to check this out.

Aug 17, 2009 06:45 PM
RealBird Real Estate Marketing
RealBird Inc. - Santa Cruz, CA
All-In-One Real Estate Marketing Toolkit

Thanks Jennifer. Let us know if we can help.

-- Zoltan

Aug 17, 2009 06:56 PM