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1. mattregister
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I built my wife a real estate site using a completely custom wordpress theme. There are some pretty slick customizations in there. I would love feedback.

   Her blog is currently a finalist for "Best Real Estate Blog in Texas" from the Mays Business School Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. Voting is going on now until next Tuesday. To vote you send this guy an email. I made a form to make voting easier.

   Check out the site and let me know what you think.
   the front page of her site: http://buyandsellwithshannon.com
   The voting page (voting takes 3 seconds, tops. Type your name and hit send.): http://buyandsellwithshannon.com/vote

   Thanks in advance for your feedback and voting support.

   Matt

2. mattregister
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Thanks for your support guys. She has gotten several votes from here. Any feedback on the site?

3. eatingrocks
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   The blog looks really good. I like the arrows for the buyer/seller and the website looks really professional. The load time is very slow though I put it through http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com and it would not work "Your request returned no data. Please check your url and try again" However, I think it might be your server?

   When I clicked on the link it was just slow though but took a minute or two to show up.

   Looks good though & good luck!

4. mattregister
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   My server is acting slow today. That is usually not a problem. I cannot get the analyze website to take either.

   Thanks for the feedback. She has been doing this for only 9 months (selling real estate) and has had phenomenal success because of the site. Most real estate agents are on the internet, but most of them are bad at it. a little wordpress magic and she is easily found.

5. mattregister
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   found the slow down problem. It was a plugin causing the problem. disabled it, back up to speed.

6. mattregister
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hey guys, thanks for voting. She won the contest for the "Best Real Estate Blog in Texas"!

7. tph093s
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Matt,

   I love your wife's site! Great job! I am very interested in how you did this for her. I have a website of my own but over the past couple weeks have been seriously considering making my own website from WordPress. I would appreciate any help you could give. The site she has is impressive, interactive, smooth, and flashy. I found myself on the site for well over ten mintes.

8. mattregister
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thanks for the complements on the site. It is working extremely well for her. I am not a web guy. I am actually an investment banker that started building a couple of sites for non-profits. I found wordpress to be extremely adaptable to almost any situation.

   When she first started selling real estate, we tried to think of what could set her apart from her competition in a tough market. we decided that she had to become very good at technology and its application to real estate. Against the advise of all of her peers, we built her own site.

   Thinking through what she wanted to showcase on her site, she needed static pages (for general buying and selling info) and a blog /news/listings sections. Wordpress out of the box is designed to display all posts in chronological order, but it can be manipulated to show one category at a time. Thats what you see; news is the news category archive, blog is the blog archive, featured listings is the listings archive, etc.

   I started with an existing theme and started manipulating it. it is unrecognizable from where it started. send me a direct email and i would be happy to talk to you about it.

   Matt
   Matt(at)mattregister(dot)com

9. tph093s
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Matt,

   My email is tom.hernandez@century21.com. Thanks for the help!

10. realestate77777
    Member
    Posted 1 day ago #

    WordPress is really awesome because of all the add on, plugins and the ability to be customized. I just start a real estate blog http://realestate77777.blogspot.com/ which looks not so professional, so I plan to move to WordPress platform and start producing contents. The site Matt built looks really nice!

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