Web Development

Strategy Real Estate, Inc. 

In 2012 I created a custom website for Strategy Real Estate of Bremerton, WA which encompased a multitude of disciplines, including web design, web development, graphic design, database development, hosting and email management and server management.

For this project I designed a custom website to the clients specifications using HTML and CSS styling. The website was built on the .Net platform and involved extensive development on the backend to facilitate real estate listing presentation, listing search capabilities, management of a custom integrated blog platform, as well as an agent listing system.

In the course of this project I developed a custom IDX system which integrated with the clients real estate listing service from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, pulling real estate listing information from the listing service into a dedicated MS SQL database which was used to power the listings and search functions of the clients website. The IDX platform pulled new information and updated the database hourly throughout the day, receiving new listings, updating current listings and deleting removed listings.

The clients website consisted of a home page which pulled the newest listings belonging to the clients business from the IDX service and displayed them in a grid format, as well as providing a quick search and direct lookup by listing number form.

The real estate listings were divided by property type and the listings page would pull all available listings of the selected property type belonging to the client business and list them. Selecting a  listing would provide full details on the property, as provided by the multiple listing service.

Searching the property listings would take the search parameters input by the user and search the entire database for listings matching their criteria and display them to the user. These listings would include those belonging the client business as well as those listed with other agencies. Users had the ability to view search results in a grid form, or in a map view which would plot out all of the returned listings on an interative Google map, allowing the user click on a house icon on the map to view summary details and link to the full property details.

The agent listing page was developed as an agent directory for the client, which was controlled by the custom administrative dashboard. Agents were provided with login credentials to manage their own profile information ancd contact details, and these profiles were also available to the site administrator.

A custom blog system was also developed which allowed the client to post article of interest to real estate buyers and sellers, which was also controlled by the admin dashboard, allowing for the creation of the article, including selection of category, tags, inserting images and providing for social sharing.

Other pages on the website included general requirements, including contact page, terms of service, DMCA notice, privacy policy and informational pages with links to resources and other services.

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