Chad Wozniak, an Abbotsford REALTOR® from Greater Vancouver area, has recently launched a new website www.callwoz.com. The website is built on WordPress platform by SplitMango, a Vancouver design studio whose work we have featured in the past. The website integrates myRealPage embeddable listings, which made it easy for Chad to include his listings, his office listings, full MLS® search, as well as a number of predefined searches (niche listing pages). The listings have also been customized via CSS to match the look and feel of the website better.
Do you already have a website? You can easily migrate and customize it on myRealPage platform, you can use myRealPage embeddable listings to add rich listing functionality to your existing website. If you are a proud owner of a WordPress website, check out our WordPress listings plugin.
We have just published a bunch of updates in our systems to give you more choices and better streamlined features when it comes to giving your listings the best online treatment possible. Please note, that these changes are available only in our Web Private Office; please fire up your Chrome, Safari, or Firefox and check it out if you haven’t yet: http://private-office.myrealpage.com
NEW DEDICATED SUPPORT FOR FLOOR PLANS
We now have a separate tab in the Listing Editor specifically for Floor Plans. Previously, you had to manage your Floor Plans through the Listing Documents which didn’t get proper visibility in the listing details views and one couldn’t look at the floor plans without downloading them. With the new Floor Plans tab, you can easily upload all your Floor Plans in one convenient location; and you can also customize the label for the dedicated tab and even enter an optional introduction text. In addition, if you upload PDF documents of your floor plans, they will be shown inside the page without the visitor needing to download them: less time spent fumbling with the documents and more on your listing page.
New dedicated Floor Plans tab in Listing Details.
New “Floor Plans” support in the Web Private Office: everything you need in one convenient location
BETTER SUPPORT FOR RICH MEDIA (VIDEOS, VIRTUAL TOURS)
We have also streamlined how you add and manage your listings’ videos and virtual tours. Both are now combined into one list; and we have also added the ability for you to change their default tab label, as well as add an optional introduction text. You can also use this facility to change your “Videos | V.Tours” tab into something completely different, like a tab dedicated to the listing’s neighborhood, with its own text, pictures, and videos.
New Rich Media support in the Web Private Office: more flexibility and convenience
FINE-TUNING DIALOG FOR GOOGLE STREET VIEW
It is obvious that you would like your listing to have best possible presentation online. You can now use our integrated, convenient dialog to fine-tune how the Google Street View of your listing looks online. You can simply launch this dialog and use the standard Street View controls to zoom in, pan and rotate the view to get the best possible look of your listing. Our system will remember exactly what you have done and will apply it to the listing.
New integrated Google Street View dialog for fine-tuning
STANDALONE VIRTUAL TOUR (MEDIA) PAGE FOR YOUR LISTING
We have long offered a standalone media presentation for your listing which you can add to your listing’s information in the MLS® system. Many MLS® systems allow you to submit such external links to feature virtual tours, images, etc. We have modified this listing presentation to include Floor Plans support, better image gallery and more.
How to access the Standalone Virtual Tour / Media page in the Web Private Office
New streamlined look for the Virtual Tour / Media page for your listing.
We hope you will enjoy using these new features as much as we enjoyed building them. Let us know what you think: feedback@myrealpage.com
We are very excited to publish a great new feature in our Listings Module: a set of tools to quickly and easily create and publish all manner of listings on your Facebook Fan Page. If you don’t know what Facebook Fan Pages are, we encourage you to check them out. In a nutshell, Facebook Fan Pages allow you to create a special landing page for your real estate business where you can engage your existing and potential client base. And now, you can compliment such a Fan Page with your listings, including listing search and predefined searches (in regions where available).
We have gone to great lengths to make the typically convoluted process of publishing on a Facebook Page, a breeze. Everything is handled from a single easy-to-use wizard dialog which takes you through all the steps and gives you a great deal of flexibility and customization.
At a glance, this new feature will let you:
Quickly publish your listings, including a custom arrangement of your listings, such as “Only active listings”, “This listing at the top, followed by the rest of my listings”, etc…
Publish any of your Predefined Searches (in regions where available), also including various arrangements.
Publish your individual listings’ details
Publish a special, facebook-friendly search form (in regions where available) to let your visitors search for listings right on your Facebook Page
Create special fans-only (fan gate) pages which show their true contents only to people who have liked the page, and otherwise invite them to like the page first (a way to build a fan base for your page)
Completely integrated way to manage all your listing Facebook Tabs from the web-based Private Office, including the ability to publish and unpublish individual tabs.
Manage one or many Facebook Pages and tabs all in one place.
A QUICK VIDEO TOUR
Take this new shiny tool for a spin: it’s slick and super easy to use! It will even let you create the Facebook Page right from the wizard.
We are very pleased to release a new addition to an extensive array of our website weblets (those little page components that act like building blocks for your website). This time, it’s “Location Search” weblet, designed for a super easy listing search based on a typed-in location.
This weblet is a great tool to engage your website visitors and get them to start experimenting and using your listing tools. It lets your visitors instantly see the listings they are looking for. All they need to do is simply type in the desired location, such as a city, neighborhood, postal/zip code or an MLS® number.
This weblet contains additional options. These will allow you to fine-tune the way this weblet looks and behaves. For example, you can configure this weblet to automatically search a particular property type, and you can add “Property Types” as an additional control to this form.
Want to see how easy it is to add Location Search weblet to your website, see this quick video:
As always, we would love to hear what you think; send us your thoughts to feedback@myrealpage.com
We hope you will enjoy using this great new weblet.
We are very pleased to release a complete re-work on our Listing Feature Sheets. The new feature sheets have been completely redesigned and rethought and brought in line with the rest of the new Private Office. Our main design goal was to have the feature sheets produce great-looking results out-of-the-box but also give you fine control over customizations and adjustments which are inevitable when dealing with printed material. As a result, the new feature sheets pack a powerful interactive editor and easy-to-use tools.
We have just introduced a series of new updates in response to the latest developments in the Social Media realm. As you may have heard, Google recently launched Google+ service for social media networking and even though it’s still very new, it has been getting a lot of traction. Along with this service, Google has also released +1 button for publishers to help people share useful links.
To help our clients take advantage of these new developments, and as an opportunity to update our products’ support of social media, we have introduced the following updates:
Support for Google+ profiles in your website(s)
Support for Google +1 button in your blog(s)
Support for Social Media sharing in your listings, including Google +1 button
Updated social media buttons’ look, as well as the “Tweet” button to use native Twitter interface without any 3rd parties
So how do you take advantage of these new features?
To add Google +1 button to your blog posts, simply find your Blog page and click to edit your Blog weblet. In the weblet configuration, you will be able to add Google +1 button as seen in the screenshot below:
We hope you will enjoy these new features as much as we enjoyed adding them. We are always eager to hear what you have to say, send us your comments to feedback@myrealpage.com
We have just released a few interesting updates for our Google Map Search targeted at making the search experience more fluid for your web visitors and more configurable for you. The new features include:
“Drag-and-search” on the Google Map Search: now when you pan around the map, it will automatically update with found listings in the displayed area. (To make this experience more logical, this works only if there are no painted areas within which the visitor chose to search).
Auto-show listings on the Google Map Search as soon as the form is shown. This feature can now be enabled from your Properties Pages Weblet (see screenshot further below) or in Embedded Listings codes, when configuring your listings for 3rd party websites. When enabled, this will automatically run the search and show the listings on the map when the form displays on your webpage.
Added a nifty “View as List” link to the map toolbar to make it easier to switch the map view to the list view without the need to click the “Search” button again.
Today, we would like feature an example of an effective use of our embeddable listings and showcases: a WordPress-based website run by Jacob Krause and Jacky Levi: EastVanHouses.com
Here is a little information on their website and business in their own words:
Jacob Krause and Jacky Levi with TRG Realty, East Vancouver Realtors helping clients buy and sell houses, townhomes and duplexes on Vancouver's Eastside. They've been selling real estate for over 10 years in the neighborhoods of Cedar Cottage, Cambie's Douglas Park, Renfrew, Grandview, Killarney, Knight, Mount Pleasant, Victoria VE, Collingwood and Main St. Offering home sellers the most advanced real estate website and giving them direct access to local and international buyers from all around the world. Buyers have the ability to view houses for sale in all of the East Vancouver communities with brilliant interior photos, property descriptions, real estate video tours and Realtor contact details.
For those that run WordPress blogs out there, be sure to also check out myRealPage fully indexable WordPress IDX and Listings plugin for our supported regions in Canada and US.
If you are interested in finding out more, give our sales a call at : 1-888-478-8797 or drop us a line to sales@myrealpage.com
We are very thrilled to publicly release the first beta version of our IDX and Listings WordPress plugin. This plugin is designed to give your WordPress blog or website the full power of myRealPage Listing solution, including support for Reciprocity (public searches*), Virtual Office Website (VOW*), Predefined Searches* for your niche listing pages, and much more.The plugin is specifically designed to inline the listing content inside your WordPress pages in order to make it fully visible to search engine crawlers and make it SEO friendly. We have taken special care to generate descriptive dynamic titles for pages that you don’t directly control, such as Listing Details pages into which your visitors will navigate by browsing listing.
Currently, the plugin provides IDX WordPress integration in select regions in Canada and the US, including: Greater Vancouver area, Edmonton and Calgary areas, Saskatchewan, Victoria, Vancouver Island, San Diego, Greater Phoenix area in Arizona, Chicago and some others (call us for full details: 1-866-512-3876 or drop us a line to support@myrealpage.com)
myRealPage WordPress plugin utilizes the power of WordPress “shortcodes”: special placeholders which are dynamically turned into useful content by the WordPress rendering engine. Our plugin comes bundled with a very flexible and powerful Listing Shortcode Wizard which will help you create all sorts of listing configurations, including functional and visual options, such as custom width for the listing content, basic color theme, custom sort order, and much more. The Listing Shortcode Wizard also includes a Preview button to make sure you got your configuration right.
Use the Shortcode Wizard to include such listing content as:
Your and your office listings, including your listings optionally split by status and custom defined categories, as well as combined with other hand-picked listings
Any predefined search, on its own or combined with hand picked listings
A number of hand-picked listings which you can look up in Shortcode Wizard by MLS® numbers
An individual listing, including specifically details, photo, video or map view (great for building single property websites)
A standard or custom configured search form
We have also bundled out-of-the-box support for twentyten theme which comes as the default theme in new WordPress versions, as well as Thesis 1.8 theme which appears to be one of the more popular ones out there. If you are CSS-savvy or work with a designer or developer, you can also adapt this plugin to work with other themes: read more on our technical blog.
We are very pleased to publish a very large update to the myRealPage Listings product. The update covers a pretty wide area and introduces new functionality, boosts existing features, and improves user experience. myRealPage has been long offering a very powerful set of listing tools and features; and today’s updates are designed to let you take advantage of these easier and faster.
When you login into your Private Office, you will notice the new changes in the “Listings” section:
Here is a quick look at these 5 main sections:
Embeddable Listings and IDX wizard:
Embeddable Listings and IDX is an advanced toolkit from myRealPage which allows you to embed a powerful Listing Search engine (IDX) and a fully featured Virtual Office Website (VOW) in a 3rd party website, such as WordPress, Joomla, or even if a website is with another real estate website provider that lacks these features. It has proven to be a flexible option for many who want to take advantage of myRealPage listing functionality but continue running their existing websites.
The new Embeddable Listings wizard is a veritable powerhouse of options now. If before, you had a limited set of embeddable listing scriptlets, now you can configure very exactly what sort of listing content you would like to embed, including:
Your listings, including custom categories, etc.
Predefined searches
Hand-picked listings combined with your listings or searches
An individual listing
A search form
You can also fine-tune how your listing content will appear by setting a theme, template, custom width and many other options.
We have also made sure that this wizard allows you to create and edit your Predefined Searches and Search Forms right in place, without needing to go to the Private Office to do so.
myRealPage has always taken mobile very seriously and has been offering free mobile listing tools for all its customers, those that do and don’t have myRealPage websites. myRealPage also released powerful, simple to use, fully editable Mobile Websites which can be tightly integrated with your regular website.
We have also created easy tools for our customers to access and use QR codes for listings and contact information. QR codes are a great way to publish mobile friendly content to smartphone users.
We have now combined all the mobile links and QR codes into one coherent interface where you can get mobile links to:
Your listings
Office listings
Mobile listing search
Individual listings
and a QR code for your contact information
Predefined Searches:
Predefined Listing Searches have been very popular with myRealPage customers: they allow you to create “canned” search pages with listing results matching a particular set of criteria. You can create searches, like “Luxury Downtown Condos”, or “Core Area Lofts”, etc. The new interface allows you easily browse, create, edit and preview your predefined searches.
Note the new “Preview results” button in the Predefined Search wizard: it should allow you to easily verify that the search is producing desired results.
Search Forms:
Search Forms are a great way to create a specially pre-configured listing search formes for your website that accurately reflect your niche market and audience. For example, if you specialize in a particular neighborhood or types of properties, you can easily configure your search form to have those types of properties and neighborhood areas pre-selected, so your visitors start interacting with your listing searches right away.
The new screens allow you to quickly and easily manage your Search Forms:
Listing Showcases:
Listing Showcases are a great way to publish and advertise various groups of listings or individual listings via a variety of formats, such as:
Listing slideshow with and without Flash
Listings on a Google Map
Listing grids
Horizontally sliding listing bands
Simple featured listings
These showcases can be created based on your listings, a predefined search, or a combination of hand-picked listings. They can be embedded in your website or any other website.
The new interface allows you to quickly and easily manage these showcases:
We hope you will find these updates useful and easy to use. We would love to hear your feedback: simply leave a comment here to drop us a line at feedback@myrealpage.com
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