Cape Girardeau Real Estate
A buddy of mine, Rick Sample (who owns Distinctive Home Solutions, a Cape Girardeau Home Builder), has been bugging me about getting a kick ass website to show off his home building business.
It was a big deal to me to build a site that Rick could work himself. Rick may have a mega understanding of studs and insulation, but he’s ALMOST useless on a computer. So, I used a little programming (okay, a lot of programming0 to create a site that he could update 99.9% of the time himself.
I’m a very busy guy and sometimes it’s hard for me to make time to change a mundane detail on a site for a client who may not know how. Well, that has all changed. My programming and site design makes changing, editing, or updating a website about as simple as checking your email at Yahoo or Hotmail.
So what does HomesbyDHS do that a normal site doesn’t do?
- When Rick wants to add a house, he logs into his admin section and clicks “Add A Homeâ€. He’ll be asked the price, square footage, bedrooms, bathroom, etc. He’ll then be asked to specify pictures from the house, which will be uploaded, automatically resized, and stored for web use. If he sells a home, he simply edits the home and changes it’s status to “soldâ€. The home no longer shows up on the “for sale†section.
- If Rick wants to announce to the world that he has a new home for sale, he clicks on “Newsletter†and types a message (and even includes images). When he hits send, his entire mailing list (anyone who has ever contacted him via the Homesbydhs.com website) will receive the update of his latest home for sale. Not everyone will want to receive this updates, so a link is provided in the email to remove a person from the mailing list.
- If Rick gets busy and forgets to send a newsletter, I’ve written a script that will automatically email him if he has not sent an email in 30 days. Sometimes we all need a reminder for various tasks. Using programming keeps out site active, alive, and keeps traffic and awareness up without having to waste brain power remembering. Let my programming take care of that.
Rick can also post updates in the news section of the site. - If Rick wants to add a new page or section to the site, he simply clicks on “create new page†and then writes what he wants to say, adds pictures where he wants to add pictures in a format that feels a lot more like word that some crazy web page programming junk.
If Rick decides that one page doesn’t fit what he wants to tell the world, he uses the admin tool to remove it. - Rick always wants to put his best foot forward, so the website is setup to always show his most expensive home at the top of the homepage.
When work completes on the scripting and graphic design of Homesbydhs.com, we will begin the search engine optimization process to get Rick’s Cape Girardeau Real Estate site to the top of Google and the other search engines.