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 pleased to announce a new addition to the many ways you can add photos to your website, the Photo Gallery weblet. Not only does this weblet work on your standard website, it also works perfectly on your mobile myRealPage site as well!
This weblet is a great tool to showcase photos on your site whether it be for a new development, an event you were a part of or photos for adding a new twist on Testimonials.
This weblet contains options that will allow you to add a title to the gallery, add a description and add captions to each photo. Upload images directly from your computer or from your web drive and then drag and drop them in the order you want.
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.
Say hello to three new weblets added to a large and growing selection of myRealPage website components. The three new arrivals are:
Twitter Profile weblet : a customizable widget that shows your tweets
Facebook Like Box : a customizable widget that shows activity on your Facebook Page
Google Translate : a widget that displays a “translate” drop-down menu and uses Google Translate service to translate your website pages into a variety of languages
It was possible to add these weblets to your myRealPage websites in the past, but you had to copy-and-paste a bunch of codes and if you wanted to change anything you had to start from scratch. We thought we could do better…. The new weblets will now let you integrate these tools into your websites very easily; and you can always come back later and change their settings without any copy-and-pasting.
You can find the new weblets in the “General” section or simply by typing their names into the search box.
Let us know what you think about these new weblets: we hope you will put them to good use. Email us your thoughts and feedback to feedback@myrealpage.com
We are very thrilled to publish a set of new weblets today which will make it super easy for you to create refined, consistent, feature and information rich pages for buildings and neighborhoods. These weblets have been painstakingly put together, taking into account most requested features from you, our customers; and we have gone beyond...
Today we would like to introduce to you a set of four weblets:
Building Page weblet
Neighborhood Page weblet
Building List weblet
Neighborhood List weblet
Building and Neighborhood weblets come with rich toolsets and were designed to give you maximum flexibility and latitude for customization. In a nutshell, these weblet offer:
Ability to quickly add relevant information about a building or neighborhood, including tabular data, such as “Quick Facts”
Precise tools to help you display current listings in your buildings and neighborhoods
Quickly upload multiple photos at a time, re-arrange their order and decorate them with your own captions. The photos will render into a beautiful “lightbox” style gallery on the resulting page; the weblets will smartly scale the resulting lightboxes to snugly fit into the screen; as well as adjust your thumbnail sizes to fit just perfectly
Add a Google map, StreetView, Walkscore and Bing’s Bird’s Eye View to your pages; and create your own CUSTOM DRAWN shapes and push pins with info balloons. All to create a visual geo-context for your buildings or neighborhoods
Upload a series of documents that you may want to have your visitors download; change their order and give them descriptive names
Embed videos and rich media; including a nice integration with YouTube
Assemble your buildings and neighborhoods into exact lists, using Building and Neighborhood List weblets
It’s easy to get started: simply create a new page, choose to “add content” to it and select one of these new weblets:
We have put together these videos to help you get started:
We very much hope you enjoy using these weblets as much as we enjoyed building them for you. And if you create great looking pages you are proud of, why not send us the links: we’ll be happy to feature them on our blog: 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 publish a new addition to our list of website themes. The new Theme 706 makes up for its not-so-imaginative name with some good looks! It is available to everyone right away. If you were thinking of refreshing your website’s look and feel, give this new looker a go. You can also preview this new theme right here.
We would like to introduce a set of new features that have just been published to myRealPage Private Office. We have given our Statistics package an overhaul to make it more usable and friendly. We have also created a tight integration for Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. It is now super easy to connect your website with myRealPage to a Google Analytics account, get quick Analytics stats, and with only one click, you can now connect your website to Google Webmaster Tools!
[ Find all the statistics in one convenient place ]
Here is a the brief summary of our updates:
Created a new section in the Private Office for Statistics
Created Google Analytics integration:
Instantly connect a Tracking code to your website's domain
Run quick reports, including comparative reports for a time period of your choice
Get started with Google Analytics in a few clicks even you didn’t have a Google Analytics account before
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.
As you may know, we launched a new, completely revamped web-based Private Office a little while ago. Today, we are very pleased to announce a complete re-work on the way our weblet editing tools look, feel, and function.
“Weblets” are little building blocks that comprise the contents of our web pages. They account for most of myRealPage website platform’s flexibility and power. They allow you to add complex, interactive features to your pages with just a few clicks. myRealPage offers several dozens of various weblets, such as “Text Editor”, “Embedded Video”, “Image Banner”, “Interactive Map”, “Local Places”, “Listings”, “Listing Showcases”, as well as a series of weblets designed specifically for mobile websites.
We decided to go through every single one of our weblets’ editing screens and re-organize, re-engineer and re-design the way they look and behave, including the actual Weblet Picker itself. We made each configuration screen easier to understand and work with and we “annotated” all the options with little question marks to let you know right on the spot what each of the options does. Today’s update is the result of this laborious but rewarding process. Take a look at the screenshots below and explore your new Private Office yourself: http://private-office.myrealpage.com
Here is how you would add new content to your pages:
This is our new Weblet Picker, a modern design for a modern CMS:
Here are some examples of the new weblet editing screens:
Our mobile weblets also got a facelift: check out one example below:
We hope you will enjoy using these new features as much as we enjoyed making them! Let us know what you think: feedback@myrealpage.com : we are always interested in what you have to say.
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