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HI
I am quite new in webdesigner 7 premium. I want to create a real estate web site.:cool:
To do that I need to add obects on a list (houses, appartments) see attached file. When I click on the picture a detail page shout open with detailed information about the house.:-O
Can I do that without programming :rolleyes:
Please, PLease help !
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Hi!
Firstly Welcome to the forum. I have been through this myself and I am afraid the answer is no in terms of a traditional xara website. For this the best way is a wordpress or joomla site with a real estate plug-in.
Hi skech,
To design a Real estate website with Designer Pro is not a good idea, contact me via Skype my id= cmichielsens and I tell you why?
soet
Hi sketch,
First of all thank you for your answer. How can I integrate a wordpress or joomla plugin in XARA ?
Thanks in advance for an answer. I appreciate it very much.
best regards,
erde
erde
You really need to start from scratch. You cannot integrate the plugins in xara. Most hosting companies have a one click install of either wordpress or joomla (or install it manually, only slightly more difficult), once this has installed and has created the database files etc then do a search for real estate plugin for wordpress (or joomla, whichever you decide to use). do this search either on the wordpress or joomla sites or just type it in google. As I said it cannot be done with xara products as yet or ever.
I must be misunderstanding what is required here since I think this is very easy. It looks to me that you want a page similar to your attachment, and then the user clicks on the house image and a detailed page of stats shows up. Am I wrong or are you looking to do something else?
The link for the details can be placed on a pop-up layer.
Clicking on links etc and pop-up layers are easy but On a real estate website the customer needs to be able to search for properties with various variables such as price, location, number of bedrooms etc, and this simply cannot be achieved using xara. This is why I suggested the wordpress route. If anyone does know how to do all this using a xara product then I would certainly like to know.
That makes sense, but the OP didn't state any details as such - no mention of searchability or database necessity. At least there was no specific mention of that requirement. If he/she just wants to show info in a pop-up, that's easy. Many realestate sites are not that involved and are rather small showing maybe a dozen houses or more/less. It all depends on if they have a large list of houses that they are trying to sell.Quote:
Originally Posted by skech
Erbe, all the answers here are correct - it depends upon what type site you want.
As Skech has stated, for a large Real Estate site such as Realtor.com, one needs a database for the searches to work. One could do a part of the site in Xara and link out to a database but it doesn't make sense to do so - just do it all in one program.
On the other hand, if it is just a small Real Estate company with few listing to show it can be down in Xara as others has said.
Good luck with the site. - jb
Dear all,
This is quite an old thread I'm digging up, however, I'm in more or less the same position as the OP:
I have already designed and build my complete real estate website. The last thing to add now are the actual listings. I already started doing those by just listing them on a page in Xara WD and then gave each object a 'learn more' button for to link to another page with more detailed info. However, I have come to the conclusion that it is very time consuming making updates to the listing as I will have to move everything by hand if I want to add or delete one item. And it is easy to mess up as well, especially if you take in consideration that I would like my employees to update the listings as well. Final remark is the lack of a search engine. My former webpage did not have this either but the diversity of the listings is growing and I would like to be prepared for the future if our portfolio expands.
My current 'quick' solution is to put the listings in excell and simply save that file as an html page and upload it. My Xara website links to that (not so nice) html page and all the listings are shown with a 'learn more' link back to the detailed project page on the Xara website. For the time being this works, yet still without a search engine.
So, a solution needs to be found imho. I am not going to throw away all the hours of work of my webpage so I prefer linking my Xara website to a database, which on its turn links back to the 'detailed' page of each property on my Xara website. The time pressure is starting to get bigger as I aimed at a compleat 'site renewal' at new years day (to have an easy milestone also in combination with new e-mail adresses ecc.). I've already checked out Joomla once but it appeared pretty complex at first glance and, since it is for my listings only, I obviously prefer something I do not have to 'learn'.
I hope that in the meantime (the OP asked this question 5 years ago!) somebody has come up with a great solutions?
Edit: I've found this thread where-in is spoken about a $400 database program which can be embedded into Xara. I'm not afraid to pay money, though have to be sure that it will work? /Edit
Kind regards,
Christian
Christian, where is your Xara built website?
Currently not yet online. Would that be of a lot of help? I will have to make sure that I've got enough space to upload it 'next to' my current website before I upload it as well, you see? Plus, since it is a rather large website I have built it in, lets say, multiple websites. So a big part of the links do not work yet cause they link to an actual http adress, rather than to another file.
Is there anything particular you would like to know? Maybe I can already answer it straight away....?
I will check if I can upload it.
I was curious about what your site looked like and what the HTMLified spreadsheet looked like. No worries.
Paul
Nothing special. Just like a table any other html editor could make (Frontpage back in the days f.e.)
But no solutions to my problem?
Plenty of solutions, particularly if you don't use Xara and spend money on it.
I would make a non-Xara web page styled to match the Xara part and link that to a CMS of some sort, or you could automated the Excel file to be a similarly styled page as Xara.
You are very shy of actually showing us what you have done. Linking to a crude HTML table is a pretty poor idea.
That's because I've had issues in the past when uploading a new website for testing it while keeping the old one online as well. For some mysterious reason the old one started showing issues and it took hours and hours to resolve it. Since the business is higly dependent on the website I try to minimise the risk of it going off-line by doing a 'complete-one-time-transfer' (replacing the old one in one time). Anyway, since you show particulair interest in my excel file: here it is. Theimages (a bunch of mooses for the moment...) loose their quality. Don't know why.
A partition of the new website is here. By clicking on one of the four types of properties (new built chalets, apartments, resales or commercial) a listing page of that typology is shown. Unfortunately I will have to replace that page with the excel page.
Thanks. I can see that you've been working hard.
I thought at first you could probably restyle the excel part, but I think this whole thing is a bit of a maintenance nightmare, particularly now that I've seen it. I would think that it really calls out for a dedicated solution using a CMS.
There are a lot of spelling mistakes and occassional odd sentences.
Thanks for letting me see it.
Hi Pauland,
Thanks for your reply. I have found a new (temporary) solution. I will use an iframe on the listings page which is linked to the excel-html page. Therefore one will see the excel table without leaving the site. Maintenance is relatively easy as I will only have to update the excel file and upload it. Therefore no maintenance has to be done on the actual Xara website. Please see a tryout of what I mean over here.
In the future, the iframe maybe could be linked to a proper database. I have been looking into various cms programs yesterday but I have to admit that I, for the moment at least, really can not be bothered learning a complete new program again. What I would like to is something similair to excel. No advanced customer relation trackers ecc. Just my listings in a clear overview with a search ability (location, type of property, number of bedrooms, budget). If you have got a suggestion it is more than welcome. In the meantime I'll continue with the excel file and do some research in between.
Yes, a lot of work has been put into the website. English is indeed not my mother tongue. The textual part of the website has not been the primary focus for the last couple of months. I did not knew however it was as bad as you described. I will let a native look into it. Tnx.
I think the problem with the iFrame will be over-running the page footer.
The spelling is generally good - better than many whose first language is English would do. Unfortunately people pick up the mistakes, not the things that are right!
Luxory should be Luxury. "New built apartments" would be newly built apartments, same for chalets. Services has a "servicese" on the page. "one of the most attractive country in the world" - one of the most attractive countries in the world.
That's not an exhaustive list!
You've done a great job, but using a native English speaker used to writing copy, would just catch these simple errors (though beware, there are some native English speakers who can't spell or write well).
Good luck!
Paul
I do not understand what you mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by pauland
At the bottom of your Xara design is a footer with what will eventually be page links. In an ideal world your iFrame should allow the list of properties to expand downwards, rather than be constrained. Unfortunately if it's floating over the xara page, it will just run over the footer. I think there are some suggested tweaks for a floating footer to pin it to the browser bottom, but it won't do so using the normal way of adding Xara content.
The footer of my xara website does not contain page links. Those are in the header. However, the problem you describe will not occure anywhay because the iframe uses a scrollbar to keep the iframe the same size yet list all the properties.
The iframe now shows the excel-html page. Unfortunately, it shows the various tabs at the bottom as well (blad 1, blad 2, blad 3). And inserting pictures in excel turned out to be quite a nerve breaking task. Therefore, I will make the excel-html page in Frontpage. This resolves both the tabs at the bottom, the difficult insertion of pictures as well as the maintenance problem because frontpage almost works like word (which everybody is capable of using).
OK, good luck!
Thnx for your help. I'll post an update if I have finished with this temporary solution. And maybe I'll be able to find a final solution the next couple of weeks.
Hi all
Thank you for your answers. Indeed it is just to show 10 - 15 objects. Houses, app., etc. I dont need a database, oder search abilities.
@ Megalodon: True, if a user clicks on the picture, a detailed page should open. It should be a "normal" page where I can put a slideshow of pictures and some detail text.
@ gwpriester: How I dot that ?
@ jeb: are there any examples on xara where I can see that ?
@ sketch: Thanks for your answers. I really need just to show 10-15 Objects. Those I want to present in a professional way. Would you still implement that in e.g. wordpress or is ist possible in xara ?
Thank you guys for your answer.
Best wishes
Erde
Hi Erde,
Sorry I almost hijacked your thread!
Since I'm in the same branche as you are, I know what you would like to do. Up to, say, 15 objects it is okay to do it all in Xara. Just make listing page with all your properties and link each property in that list to its own specific page where-in more detailed information is shown. There are no templates for that (afaik). However, it is easy immaginable.
As far as I have experienced this works fine up to the moment you have to modify your listings frequently and/or the number of objects in you portfolio starts to increase.
Hi sjeupie
Thank you for your answer. Indeed I can see the problem with increasing number of objects. For the beginning it should be ok for me with xara, after I look for
joomla or wordpress. Thanks and good day.
Best Erde
Have any of you considered using Google Presentation or Google Spreadhsheets to embed dynamic information? It is of course not as customizable and powerful as using a CMS, but you may find these useful for certain embedded content. Cheers.