Thread: I need some serious anwers!

Hi all,

I'm pretty new here, and I've had my license for two days. No, haven't sold anything yet.

I want a website. I understand it takes time to get high rankings with the search engines and I'm not in a super hurry with that. What I want is something that's easy to update. I read using frames isn't a good idea for spidering. So, no frames, right?
What's left? I'm not a total newbie when it comes to webdesign. I have Dreamweaver (it's a few years old) and I know how to use it. I'm just a bit overwhelmed with the fact that nobody seems to use hmtl anymore and I'm not quite certain what to do with all the other fancy webdeveloper abbreviations mean

I found frame to be fairly user friendly when it comes to updating. Is there an alternative?

Thanks folks! Any help is greatly appreciated.

FlaGal

You can get one for a reasonal price at maika solutions.

Congratulations. Welcome to the family. I hope you are very successful in your new career. As you are just getting into the business 1000's are leaving.
Heck with them. Better for us.

In response to your question. YOU NEED A WEBSITE.
Here are some options that I have found to be VERY good.

I have an Alamode website. ALAMODE.com for RE agents. It is VERY easy to use, and generates quite a number of quality leads. It takes time and effort to put together, but once you have the basic structure up, adding listings, content, and more, is very easy. I like the ability to create my own pages and customize the information.

Companies that customize sites do a good job, but every time you want something changes, you have to pay for it. Gets expensive.

Another option that is FREE and great to begin with is POINT2AGENT.com I cannot put the www in because I do not have 15 posts in to the forum yet. They have different versions, and it is OK, but not GREAT. Try the free one to start.

I have both sites, and what is neat about point2agent.com is I can create several FREE sites and promote single projects, or specific RE categories.

I hope this helps and best of luck.

-Craig

I know this is an old post, but anyone looking for a solution, this is it: enom . com. I am not a reseller, but I am using them for hosting several websites. They do domain registration, hosting, etc. They have a website building system that is easy to maintain, creates personal sites and they have thousands of templates you can choose and customize to get started. Hope this helps!

If you want a soup to nuts system, use the one I describe at this link.
real-estate-credit-loansdotcom/whyIUseSBIdothtml (change dot to .)

It helps you decide on a domain name, it is easy to create pages, you can modify it anytime from anywhere, pictures, text, video, forms, newsletters, and it optimizes your pages and helps you submit them. It will even help you get google advertisements on your page so you can make some money. If you learn how to write your own html, it will analize it for errors and optimize it, too. There are forums for help and it has been very useful for me. I have many, many web pages, but this one is the easiest to change, add to, and use. It will cost about $300/year, but I have found no other system that is as easy or complete. I found it AFTER I tought myself html and built a big real estate site.

Regardless of what you use, when you get a page, send it to me at REindex.com for a link.

Best wishes,
REIndex.com, The Site Engine(sm)

I think point2agent.com offers nice real estate websites for free. Also rapidlistings.com offers free real estate sites. Nice start to your site. I don't know what your paying, but starting off in this business is tough.

Find a system where you can update with ease and not have to rely on a web programmer. Your focus should be on getting clients and not coding. Blogging is also a good way to generate leads and most platforms these days make it very easy to update on a frequent basis. Good luck!

I've created just the solution. It's a dynamic site where you can modify the content without any techical experience. Basically like filling out a form. I've got dynamic rss news feeds, google map integration, calendaring, scheduling and blogs to name a few.

Check it out and let me know your feedback. There's a free version you can sign up for.

Good luck...

the website address is: agentfaces.com

Originally Posted by FlaGal

I'm just a bit overwhelmed with the fact that nobody seems to use hmtl anymore and I'm not quite certain what to do with all the other fancy webdeveloper abbreviations mean

I apologize for throwing another new abbreviation at you but it is "CSS". Stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and is what more and more of the web is moving to. I've heard reports that HTML will be history in a few years and sites will need to be developed in CSS. That's the direction I'm moving as I always want to be on the leading edge.

Originally Posted by VicBilson

I apologize for throwing another new abbreviation at you but it is "CSS". Stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and is what more and more of the web is moving to. I've heard reports that HTML will be history in a few years and sites will need to be developed in CSS. That's the direction I'm moving as I always want to be on the leading edge.

Vic,

I'm a software engineer with 10+ years in the industry. Let me elaborate on your statement above. CSS is NOT a replacement for HTML. It simply applies styles to your existing HTML. The web isn't moving away from HTML at all, the newer trend is XHTML which is a derivative of HTML. XHTML is simply stricter than HTML enforcing the following rules:

• XHTML elements must be properly nested
• XHTML elements must always be closed
• XHTML elements must be in lowercase
• XHTML documents must have one root element

The trend is towards XHTML and CSS. Like I stated, CSS by itself isn't anything but styling such as font size, margin, padding, text-decoration, etc.

Here's an example:
HTML ===> <HEAD><Title>MyWebsite</title>
The above is valid html but not valid xhtml. the elements aren't properly closed and are not in lowercase.

XHTML ==> <head><title>MyWebsite</title></head>
This is valid XHTML. As you can see similar to HTML

CSS ==> <p>My paragraph</p>
The css is defined in a separate CSS or can be embedded in the page. The CSS could be:
p {
padding-left: 10px;
text-decoration: underline;
font-size: 2px;
}
The above CSS applied to the paragraph would underline all the text, left pad by 10 pixels and make the font-size: 2px.

Hope this makes sense.

Good luck and let me know if I can answer any other questions....