Creating something new

My mom has always wanted a sleek looking website for her Real Estate Business.  She has been in the business for almost ten years now and this is one area where she can greatly approve.  She has embraced social media by creating a Face book page to advertise her listings, share pictures of new home buyers and she uses this to keep in touch with her clients.  With so many different media outlets, I suggested to her that she needs a central hub where prospective clients can view her listings, fill out questionnaires or get information on buying a home.  She needs an interactive and engaging site to promote her business.

As part of the company she works for, they offer standard web site templates each agent can use but they seem to plain and my mom is anything but that.  I am helping her gather ideas for her site in the next month and I am really excited about it.  This will be my first true attempt to build a site (I did build two sites in college, a long time ago, but after I graduated the sites, along with my school e-mail became inactive).  I have started reading the Dream weaver text to get in right mind site before starting this. Our first goal is to create a Mission Statement and figure out what the purpose of the site will be.  I'll be going to LA in the next few weeks, so by then we decided to bounce some ideas off of each other and go from there.

I'll post my progress in this blog along with other instructional strategies, ideas, and designs that I came across.

This article gives examples of some good sites, that I will most likely gather themes from:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/23/30-beautiful-real-estate-websites/

-graceg