Creating a Real Estate Website with Joomla! 3 and Intellectual Property: Open Source Real Estate Websites Made Easy

By Northwind Press

Learn how to use the popular Open Source Content Management System Joomla! to create a professional, search-engine-friendly real estate or property management website for a fraction of the cost of hiring a developer. Joomla! 3 is responsive, working on mobile devices as well as traditional web browsers, and has thousands of add-on plugins to provide advanced capabilities like newsletters, blogs, social media integrations and much more.
Intellectual Property is the top-rated real estate solution available on the Joomla! Extensions Directory.
This book will also be useful for web developers looking for a repeatable framework to create full-featured real estate and property sites without re-inventing the wheel.
Appropriate for anyone with basic computer skills and the willingness to learn through hands-on instruction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Northwind Press
• Release date: Aug 11, 2014

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Creating a Professional Real Estate Website with Joomla! and Intellectual Property

Open Source Real Estate Websites Made Easy

Copyright 2014 Northwind Press LLC

Introduction

Before we Begin: The Basics

A word about domain names

What is a LAMP server?

A Word About Backups

Chapter 1: Setting Up Joomla!

What are Joomla!’s Required Technologies?

Chapter 2: Choosing your Template

Chapter 3: Setting up Intellectual Property

Quick Tip!

Chapter 4: Joomla! Menus

Chapter 5: Joomla! Modules

Duplicate Modules

Chapter 6: Joomla! Plugins

Chapter 7: Languages & Language Overrides

Chapter 8: Search Engine Optimization and You

Chapter 9: Creating a Portal Site

Chapter 10: Data Imports

Why is Local Data Better than an IFrame?

Credits

Introduction

Any real estate agent will tell you that in the last ten years the internet has become a critical tool for reaching the widest audience of buyers. An agent with no website not only looks less professional, he puts himself at a major disadvantage to his competitors who have spent the time and effort to create a solid web presence. A website opens the door to a world of potential customers-- from casual browsers who come across your listings in an unrelated search, to sophisticated buyers who use the internet as a key research tool.

Using popular open-source web content management systems like Joomla! and WordPress offers an affordable and simple way for agents to create high-quality websites with solid SEO (search engine optimization) features for a very minimal cost. Beyond the price of a few plugins and components, the only cost of entry is your willingness to spend the time to learn the basics of how these systems work, and then to roll up your sleeves and get down to business creating your website.

The purpose of this book is to give agents and property management professionals the confidence and basic skill set to create professional, high-performance real estate websites using the Joomla! CMS and Intellectual Property, the top-ranked real estate component on the Joomla! Extensions Directory. We intend to keep the focus on the fundamentals, so that even a non-technical user will have no trouble following the tutorials.

Don’t be nervous-- it’s a great time to be a noob these days! There’s an unbelievable wealth of information available to beginners on the internet, including dozens of support forums for Joomla!, free tutorials on YouTube, and hosting websites with in-depth articles. Intellectual Property subscribers can find expert help in the support forums at http://extensions.thethinkery.net.