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I am a real estate agent in Las Vegas, NV. I used to work in the IT industry as a designer, web developer, and then as a project manager. I became a Realtor because I wanted to have my own business. However, I still love to design for my professional web sites. I find I am giving advice all the time on web design so I figured I would publish some of it.

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Feel free to post to my group http://activerain.com/groups/webdesign101. Here are the Tables of Contents:

Introduction to Web Design for Realtors SEO - Table of Contents Web Design - Table of Contents

Web Design Tips for Do-It-Yourselfers

Introduction to Real Estate Web Pages

Web design can be very fun and if done right rewarding financially for a real estate agent. It can also chew up your time and frustrate you. Some people get the knack of it and can make quite an impact. Some people just need to know what they want and let the professionals take over. Dabble a bit and see if you pick it up. It won't take long to figure out if it'll be better to outsource the work or not.

I worked in the web design industry for several years and got to design some cool sites for McAfee, Intuit, and some others. Though I love to design, web sites can become a nightmare if you don't plan them well. I definitely understand that you want to plan your site out, get it done right, and don't let it dominate you. Below are a few things you may consider when designing and implementing your real estate web site. 3 parts of a web site for you to be concerned about

Pages - your design and content will be built into interlinking pages like a book with the pages laying next to each other instead of stacked. More about pages below... Hosting - your pages need to be stored somewhere. Companies make it their business to "host" pages on their computers called servers. A server is no more than a beefy computer connected to the internet with instructions to "serve" web pages as they are requested by people surfing the net. Your pages will need to be stored on a server so others can download copies of them. More about hosting below... Domain- Each server has a name. Accept in the computer world names are actually numbers because they can be unique to each server. Because we can't remember the numbers like a computer can we have to translate them back into a name. For example: this web site http://www.hildrethhome.com/ points to a server with a number that you wouldn't want to remember. Hildrethhome is a domain name replacing the number for our sakes. You will need to get one for your site that isn't already being used. You can go to web sites like http://www.register.com/ to buy a domain name and to host your site. There are many hosting and "registrar" (sell the domains) companies out there.