If you are like most Realtors you might be considering using a Real Estate Web template as you want a standardized look on all pages, the ability to change the theme and have it change on all pages, and you don’t want the cost of having a custom website developed by a Web Design Company.
Website Templates make sense for Realtors as they:
- Lower your upfront costs and maintenance costs
- Reduce the time to implement a new design and create a predictable plan to completion.
- Help you follow local rules and standards like showing phone numbers and Realtor Logos on all pages.
- Give you a standard place for colors, fonts, designs, and sidebar elements so changes work across the whole site.
- Allows portions of the website to be upgraded without affecting the rest of the site.
Since website templates and themes seem to have so many benefits we have looked at and used many of the available themes and settled on one for the majority of our Real Estate Web Design and Redesigns. That theme is AgentPress, which is new, only coming out March 17th, 2010, is made especially for Realtors, integrates with the best IDX plugins, and is made for the most popular Content Management System in the World, WordPress.
Some people have an aversion to using WordPress as they think it is just a blogging platform or they are sick of the standard WordPress theme and can’t imagine using that for their company. It has amazing flexibility when modded, and we have standard mods that we do to both it and the Agentpress theme. This site you are looking at now is on WordPress. Here is a WordPress site on the Agentpress theme.
When you have Realty Web Design setup Agent Press you get:
- A beautiful slideshow showing the front house picture showcasing your properties.
- Links that work automatically on all pages, categories, and sections of your site.
- A gallery of as many more exterior and interior pictures as you want for each property.
- A slick framing of additional images when they are clicked for maximum effect.
- A preformatted form for realty specifics like Square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, MLS number, price and other details for each property. Easy to enter and makes for a neat tidy listing for each property.
- Categories that allow you to organize your website and show excerpts the home page.
- Home page regions that are ideal for blog postings, real estate articles, or whatever you want that automatically pulls stories from new posts made.
The best part of Agentpress is because the development costs are shared you can get all this for $99.95. If you are considering having us setting up WordPress, Agentpress and your content you can ask us to include a license in your development costs since we have a developers License for all Studiopress themes.
At the current time we are strongly recommending all our clients use Agentpress, for its amazing ability to be simple to use, yet powerful and customizable. Additionally it is built on WordPress and the Genesis Framework so the underlying core components can be upgraded without changing any of our modifications.