@weddingcakes
Thank you so much for your response and feedback, you got some very valuable points.
I was looking at the header for a long while, and its just a matter of doing it for me as I am doing that in Photoshop myself.
Problem with the header is that I save it around a 100kb in size not to sacrifice the quality of image, but my site loads quite slowly already….
Have to rethink that.
URL’s is a good point – makes them a lot friendlier, and with featured listings boxes as well, since I linked the images when I was using the still “unfriendly URL’s”.
The Great Real Estate plugin is an alright one, but has its limitations.
It allows you to add RE(Real Estate) listings to the website by setting RE “homepage”, where it then creates a list of properties in separate boxes, such as displayed here.
> When you click on the property listing to view details, it is neatly arranged into categories, such as “Map” – google map, “Details”, Gallery, etc. – all of that is great, but not, in my opinion what a user would want to see. I think its better to display all of this info in one place as IMHO some people simply would not figure out that they have to click on those green tabs. Oh, and green tabs don’t really blend in. AND, I recently discovered that some IE users have problems navigating those tabs, don’t know if its the version or flash player or something else, but it simply gets you to the bottom of the existing page and does not display anything different (stays on the first tab).
>Punching in properties is quite straight forward, but I think could be simplified, as it uses 5 different plugins and before you’re actually ready to put property info and publish, it takes half an hour uploading different galleries, download files and navigation through WP itself.
>Design: Some text that the plugin is using is really annoying…. I know, If I would know a little about CSS, I’d probably change those little bits.. I do have to spend some time on it. But still, text size it uses in property “Brief Blurb” is extremely small and unreadable.
>”Featured” widget doesn’t really work properly, since it uses the widget “header” image as its whole background, hence the text is not visible.
P.S. I tried another plugin called “FireStorm Real Estate”, it comes with its own separate theme and a number of other plugins to support it, developed by same author. Whenever I activated the plugin, there was a black flash element covering top half of my page, as well as other element on the bottom, which appeared to be a flash image gallery.
I don’t understand how to fix it, I think I’ve done everything according to the install guide.
P.S.2 I would love to have some help on this – I really want to embed a flash element on my webpage, which would allow people to brows properties with short descriptions and prices, such as here
