Are you a realtor who needs a website? Do you want to be able to pull in your listings right to your website without a lot of extra work?

We can do that!*

Recent examples include Telluride Realty and Silversons Realty. We are able to work directly with an IDX Vendor to pull the listings and display them right on your site. All of your listings, but also all the listings that are in the MLS system can be displayed on your website. There are a lot of things we can do with realtor websites, but having the listings displayed on your site is the most important step. That’s what will keep people on your website.

Contact us today to find out how we can help you.

*Participation of your MLS board is required.

One of the biggest questions I hear is what kind of site do I need? Why would I need a WordPress site versus a static, brochure style site.

Truly, they each have their benefits. However, if you want to have a site that you can login from anywhere and edit your content, then using WordPress is an excellent option. WordPress has developed from a blogging platform into a full-fledged content management system. You can easily learn to update your own website.

The benefit of being able to update your own content is speed. You don’t have to wait for your designer to be available to do the updates, and you have control over every single word. You can work on your site at any time of day or night.

What if I don’t want to update it myself? If I go with WordPress, will you still update for me? Of course! We maintain many WordPress sites for clients.

The team at Sumy Designs will always be here to aid you, whatever help you need. If you need regular maintenance, we can help. Sporadic maintenance, we can do that too. Or just guidance via phone or email, we’ll be there. We are only an email away.

We can do that!

At Sumy Designs, we are experts at the Thesis Theme Framework for WordPress. Nearly every WordPress site we do uses Thesis. If you aren’t familiar, here’s a little background info from the creator.

The Thesis Theme framework is a premium template system for WordPress that is designed to serve as the rock-solid foundation beneath any kind of website.

What I like about using this theme for the foundation of my sites is the flexibility it provides me to do just about anything on a WordPress site. It’s powerful. It’s efficient. And it comes out of the box ready for SEO. You can’t beat it.

Want to see some sites we’ve done using the Thesis Framework? Well, you’re on one right now. That’s right, sumydesigns.com uses Thesis.

Want more? Here are a few more:

• City of Richlawn, Ky
• Mantel Masterpieces
• Beyond Compare Pet Care
• Life Coach Lurlene
• Signature Organizing and Concierge

And those are just a handful. We work in WordPress every day, and we use Thesis everyday. We know how to maximize it to achieve the best results.

If you need a Thesis developer, contact us today.

*I’m starting a FAQ section on this blog, to help users find answers to common questions.

The pace of the project begins with the client and we set our pace accordingly. We have been able to put a site together in less than a week when it was urgent, and we’ve had projects drag on for years.

It’s a good idea when starting a website to do some research first. If you know what kind of sites you like and what kind of content you’ll need, the process will go much faster. If the client prefers a slower pace, we can work slower. If the client needs a site done urgently, we can speed it up.

There’s really set time frame that a website is complete in. Two to three weeks is usually a good estimate for a basic site, but again, it’s a really subjective process.

Got a question? Contact us and we’ll answer it here!

This site was so fun to work on, and it opened up a new market for us: municipal design. This city needed an easy to navigate and easy to update website to help their residents find information, stay updated, and share.

Conquering the world one gas well at a time.

I just love it when a site comes together so well. I am really digging this site for a new natural running store in Georgia.

This site isn’t completely finished, but there’s enough that I wanted to go ahead and include it in our portfolio. I’ve done realtor sites in the past, but they always lacked the ability to pull in the listings, both their own and the listings of all agencies. At least without a lot of work and a lot of struggle. This time, everything came together. The site has loads of content for sellers and buyers, as well as all their own listings and the ability to search all the listings in the MLS. That’s the way to get users to your site and keep them on your site.

I highly recommend this option to any realtor who is looking to get an edge on the market.

Another in my series of screencasts about using WordPress. This one is a quick tutorial on how to upload images to your NextGen Gallery, and then how to embed that gallery into a post. Keep in mind that you have to have the NextGEN plugin installed and active before this tutorial will help you. Also, I only showed the short code for adding one kind of photo gallery, but there are multiple options for those galleries in your posts, and you can see all those options on the NextGEN Gallery demo site.