Technology for Real Estate
Need a few compelling reasons to update your website to a responsive design? How about 11 reasons…starting with one mindblowing stat:
“91% of US citizens have their mobile device within reach 24/7. And they are checking their phones an average of 150x a day!”
Hold on for a sec…I need to check my phone!
Do you wish that your real estate website loaded faster? Of course you do. No one wants a slow website.
WordPress has released a free service that will help you in your quest to turbo-charge your website.
This new service is called Photon and it is part of the Jetpack plugin by WordPress. Photon is a CDN for photos on WordPress.org websites. [Read more...]
If you are like me, writing is not your forte. Maybe it is, but you could use some advice on writing specifically for the internet.
Well, I have stumbled upon a great, free resource for you. At least those of you with an iPhone or iPad.
In the iTunes U app is a mini-podcast series from the University of Glasgow. The series is called Writing for the Web.
This course is brilliant and will change the way you write web pages, blog posts and even email campaigns. [Read more...]
Facebook is becoming as much of a photo sharing site as it is anything else.
Uploading pictures to Facebook offers so many social advantages like the ability to tag friends and comment on photos. This allows your photos to be seen by so many more people than if it were anywhere else.
But what if you also want to have those same photos on your WordPress website? So long as the photos are in a public album, you are in luck.
Facebook Page Photo Gallery is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to add public photo albums to your website with a simple shortcode. All you need is the album ID.
Photos are displayed on your website in much the same way as a standard WordPress photo gallery.
This plugin is meant for those images on Facebook pages as they are public. There is a premium version of this plugin that offers some personal profile photo sharing abilities, Facebook Walleria Plugin.
Since you are using public photos, the album doesn’t even have to be from your Facebook page. It could be from a local event’s Facebook page which makes for easy community blogging for the real estate agent.
Want to add eye-catching call-to-action buttons on your WordPress website without touching Photoshop? Check out Max Buttons Pro. [Read more...]
A lot of buzz about the upcoming WordPress 3.5 is that Links (Blogroll) will be disabled by default. This topic brought me back to 2007 [Read more...]
Yoast has changed the face of SEO for WordPress twice in the last few months. First was the release of the free plugin, WordPress SEO by Yoast. Now, he has released a premium plugin, Video SEO for WordPress. [Read more...]
I have a new “weapon of choice” when it comes to curating relevant content and engaging with those in your network that find it extremely useful. It’s called Dashter. It’s a social content dashboard of sorts, but really…it’s much more!
Dashter was recently launched by some incredibly smart folks, one of which I’m lucky enough to call a friend…that would be Jeff Turner. I’ve known Jeff for many years as a well-voiced blogger, poignant speaker, innovative entrepreneur and he’s not too bad on the dance floor!
Now I could skip right to telling you how to use it. Which might get you to try it, for a bit, before throwing your hands up in frustration over the latest shiny object. Or, I could just tell you why I love this new tool, and why you should too. Which might actually get you to use it with delight or better yet… make it your own social content “weapon of choice”. [Read more...]
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