The Client: Debra Klassen as part of RE/MAX Real Estate Services  | DebraKlassen.com

Project Description: This is not a custom template. This is advanced administration completed over a few days for Debra Klassen on the real estate website solution MyRealPage platform. There are an increasing number of clients asking us to tweak their website instead of having a complete re-build. Although this can sometimes save time and money it is often not the case.  We would like to point out a few things to think about if you decide to go this route:

• There is no mock-up unless you ask for one. We just go in and make changes based on your branding.
• Your requests can not be specific or abundant. We need to have room to design.
• If you don’t like what we do, you’ll pay for the changes over and above any errors and omissions.
• This cannot be done without branding. We will need to start with creating your logo first if you have none.

So we had already done logo work for Debra Klassen and she had a standard myRealPage website template. She works with developers and her personal website is not her primary concern but she wants it to look good. So that’s what we did. No proof. Just web administration to make the site match her brand. MyRealPage makes it possible to tweak a design so customers don’t recognize it as something “Sort of like that other guys site”.

If you aren’t comfortable with the design grab bag idea of advanced administration and want to know what it’s going to look like then add a mock-up to the mix or choose our Custom Template Package that comes with a wire-frame proof; a mock-up proof; and a live proof before publishing.

The Client: Kim Cheng, Coldwell Banker | KimCheng.com

Project Description: Kim came to TribalYell to get some perspective. His old site was tired and needed a lot of up dating and work to shoe horn in some of the latest features he knew he wanted. He had a request for an Apple/Mac looking design. We had just the real estate website solution. MyRealPage was able to handle all his development desires and we were able to incoporate his specific design request as a custom theme with a  layout offering clear direction for the user to take.

Before and After

Before

Before: On a 24" screen. A visitor would really have to know what they wanted to do when visiting this website. Click for a close-up.

After

After: on a 24" screen. Our work added direction that guides people to the on-line real estate search tools. Click for a close-up

I Don’t know if this guy thought of this by himself or if it’s been done elsewhere. It illustrates my point. More people who would otherwise never give any money to a street person, will be more likely to change their minds and throw money at this guy than any other in his market sector.

The Client: Geoff Jennings

Project Description: TribalYell Custom Theme for Realtor® Geoff Jennings‘ myRealPage website

We’re happy to announce yet another TribalYell Custom Theme for myRealPage. Because the site is based on myRealPage, it’s already an advanced website with nothing to re-invent. Our clients can avoid extra costs for the latest technology, It’s already provided!

TribalYell Custom Themes are designed specifically to you using a 3 step virtual process that keeps you in the loop of what’s going on. It’s a wonderful experience getting to know someone so well and still say “I look forward to meeting you”. With the TribalYell Custom Theme process, we have eliminated the seemingly endless, time consuming, carbon  cost, meetings back and forth. A cost that eventually get’s passed on to you, the consumer. Our efficiency is key to having more time focussed on completing your design requests.

We love to meet our clients and we look forward to meeting you all someday. Coffee anyone?

You’ve probably already seen the notice in your dashboards, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet:

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3.0 is faster, stabler, and more secure, so you can focus on what matters (your audience) and let the rest fade to the background.

Custom post types, MU merge, menu editor, Twenty Ten theme, over 1,200 bug fixes… there’s so much to enjoy in this new release, we’re really proud of it. It’s the best WordPress yet, and available for a limited time for only free ninety nine.

Tell your friends, help them upgrade, write new themes that use the new features, spread the good word.

Please back up you database before updating. You can follow these instructions or contact us to have it done for you.

The Client: Bonnie Hastings

Project Description: A Website for Realtor® Bonnie Hastings BonnieHastings.com

This is a custom website that was created entirely by doing advanced administration within the myRealPage Private Office only. The benefit of doing your site this way is reduced costs if you forgo the mock-up proofing stage and trust our decision making.  Since Bonnie wanted to keep costs down and was happy to let us make the design decisions and her requests were simple we stuck to advanced administration only.

The best thing about making website changes entirely with Advanced Administration in your myRealPage Private Office is being able to adjust something later. No special tools are needed, nothing to download, edit and then re-upload. Just login and edit.

For those of us who learn by seeing, here is what html 5 is, what it will do and what browser works best with it – in a glance.

The Client: Sayo Nickerson as part of RE/MAX Real Estate Services

Project Description: A logo for the combined team of Sayo Nickerson and Robin Vrba

It’s not often we get one of these. Like Toronto Dominion and Canada Trust, two well established businesses and equally well established clientèle come together as one. Using the TD Canada trust merger as an example we decided, like them, not to alienate either audience and take key components of both logos to create the new version.

At the same time we were working on this, Sayo Nickerson, the team leader, signed up to large advetising agency in the U.S. to let them have a go at the re-branding. In the end we are happy to say our ideas won out and the only thing kept from the U.S. advertising agency was the “All For One”.

Below are the old logos done by other design agencies and our new one is pictured above.

The new logo incorporates growth adding a new green colour and using Sayo Nickerson’s old “tree” logo but rounding it out to represent the completeness of the team. The flower between the names acts not only as a separator of the words but also is like a bulls eye which says “all for one” without actually needing the words.

If you would like to know more or have a desire to brand or re-brand with a new logo, don’t hesitate to contact us now.

The Client: The Vrba Nickerson Real Estate Team: as part of RE/MAX Real Estate Services

Project Description: An open website, full of information with updatability by team members.

Robin Vrba and Sayo Nickerson Joined forces. They went through a temporary re-branding as part of the change. The Robin Vrba Team had a one website provider and Sayo Nickerson had myRealPage. When the team joined together, their marketing person, who had been used to working with the former and and was now new to myRealPage, found it substantially better. It was requested by the entire team, because that’s the way they do things, to combine the sites into the one myRealPage website. This is their first version.

The Client: Schumann Li Team: as part of RE/MAX Real Estate Services

Project Description: Schumann Li is a very busy Realtor® working with a team of dedicated people. They are so busy they hired a student to help create an identity package and website wire-frame for direction. From this information we developed a mock-up of what the website would look like. That approved design became real via the staging link and the team went to work populating it with content.

The staging link is unique to myRealPage. It is a link to the new fully functional but un-published website. Design and content can be applied to the new website via staging while the old published website is still doing it’s job. After the new website is proofed and approved using the staging link the decision is made to publish the website. Literally one click and confirmation is all it takes to publish a website from the staging area. There is no need to export the website and data-base to a new location.

We have refined an efficient and cost effective process for designing a website. MyRealPage works well with our process by keeping the client involved. From wire-frame to mock-up; content insertion to proofing, our clients know what’s going on. The schumann Li website was a very hands on experience for the entire team and helped pull this design process together.

Ask us about the TribalYell Custom Web Design Package that utilizes our communication proofing process.