Creating A Real Estate Website to market your business!Written by Chris Ryerson
Are you a real estate agent that is thinking about taking your business online? More and more people everyday are creating an online presence to market their business. This is a huge and expanding market that you don’t want to miss out on. Especially for real estate agent an online presence in addition to other marketing techniques can really expand your business.This allows people to come to a website on their own time and find out about you as an agent and also look at listing that you might have available. It can provide a nice introduction to your services. It also looks great on your business card because you look a lot more established. So you might be thinking now that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get your real estate business online and starting marketing and advertising online. However, most of us are not website designers and therefore it can be a daunting task to get online with a decent looking website. In fact many people who even fancy themselves as designers go ahead and put their own website online but they really shouldn’t. Many of websites that are online today do not look very professional. So what is a real estate agent left to do? Many consider hiring a web designer. This is a possibility and one that you might want to look into. On down side though hiring a designer can be costly and often time consuming. Therefore many people are starting to use website templates as a quick and cheap alternative to get their business online. You can find tons of real estate website templates online. You want to spend some time looking through templates to find a design that fits your personality. I often find myself even looking in unrelated categories. For example don’t limit yourself to looking in real estate website templates but try looking under business website templates or professional website templates also. You might find some really great professional website template that will serve it purpose much better then a so called real estate website template.
| | How to build a Church Website quickly and easily.Written by Chris Ryerson
Have you been asked to build a website for your church? Building There are thousands of people building websites everyday. It is becoming increasingly important for many small organizations and groups to build their online presence. This helps in getting their ideals, goals, and mission out to general public. Therefore at an increasing rate many of us with computer skills are asked by organizations to put together a website. This happened to me about two years ago when school I worked at asked me to build a website for them to help advertise their special arts programs. The only problem with this is many of us do not have skills nor time to build and keep up a whole site. It takes a lot to be webmaster of a website and it is no simple task. However often it is too expensive to pay a web designer to build a custom site for an organization and so task often falls to an armature or even some one with no experience. This is what happened to me with website that I build for my school. I didn't have first clue about website design or html. So that forced me to learn basics and use what tutorials and templates that i could find online. I made it through experience and like many others found that it was a lot of fun. Therefore I started building a bunch of other sites. I would bet that this happens to many. This article will help beginning web designer or even volunteer set up a basic Church website. However since there is not a lot of money to spend on project and often people have really unrealistic ideas about what a website can do we will give you some good guidelines and tips to get started. The first thing that you need to have a real good idea about is your level of experience with building websites. It is really important to be honest with yourself and church that you belong to in order to create a realistic expectation. If you are a beginner then it is fine to admit that, we all have to start somewhere. However, if you are a beginner don't plan on building an elaborate SQL php backend that can be dynamically updated or anything like that. Below I have provided some basic definitions of skill level that might help you assess where you are at. Beginner - You are this level fall anywhere in between never setting up a site to having built a site or two with an online website builder or a pre made website like those provided on Yahoo, or AngelFire. Intermediate - If you have either set up a website with an online builder and customized site some or built a website using a template then you fall into intermediate category. Advanced - You have set up many sites before and often use templates for ideas but tweak them so much they hardly resemble template when you are finished. How you choose to build your website depends largely on two factors, your time commitment to project and your skill level. These two factors have a strong correlation between them. Meaning if you have lots of time and are a beginning you will be able to build more advanced websites. However if you are an advanced designer and have very little time to build another site then you will want to go with something very basic. If you fall on either not enough time or not enough experience end of spectrum then you should really consider buying a template to either make your site or at least get you started. However if you are at intermediate or advanced level and have time then you should forgo template and create a really cool design yourself. Some of tools that you will need to build any website are included below: Graphics Software - The standard for creating website is Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop has a great add-on product that comes with software that allows you to slice images you create and export them as html. html editor - This can be anything from Microsoft Notepad all way up to a high end WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get and it means that program does html coding for you. Some editors that you might want to look into would be (ranked from least expensive to most) Coffee Cup HTML Editor, Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver.
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