If you’ve never done any work on a real estate website, I have to say, you may want to think about it again. This is one we’ve been involved in developing for a Park City Utah Real Estate Agent. The real estate market is extremely guarded by the companies that specialize in real estate websites. It’s amazing what some of these companies charge for real estate websites, even though it’s not rocket science. The biggest hurdle is getting an IDX or RETS feed on the website. Most companies that provide an IDX solution apparently think there code is gold, and apparently it is. We’ve talked with some of these companies that want $350.00 / month just to provide the software that serves up the data feed, and they require you to host your site on their server since they don’t want anyone stealing their code. Then, there’s the frameset method, which is just the other companies website framed into your website, therefore giving them all the benefits of SEO, while getting nothing for the hosts real estate website.
I know I sound like I’m ranting and I suppose I am. If anyone out there knows of a good solution for IDX feeds for Real Estate Websites, feel free to add your comments here.
Using SSH is a much more efficient way of importing a large MYSQL database than trying to use phpMyadmin. But if you’re not used to using SSH / Telnet, it can be a bit awkward.
Here are full and easy instructions on how to import a mysql database using SSH / TELNET.
- Use FTP to transfer your MySQL database to your server
- Create a remote connection using your SSH program to your server
- Navigate to the directory where you uploaded your MySQL database
- Enter this command: mysql -u username -p -h servername data-base-name < data.sql
- The system will prompt you for the database password
- Enter the password
- You’re done.
Instructions
Things You’ll Need:
Dreamweaver
. Step 1
Start Dreamweaver. Open a new blank document by selecting “HTML” in the “New” category on the introduction splash screen.
. Step 2
Type the word “Link” or some other text so you can test out the pop-up window onto your new blank HTML document and select it when you are finished.
. Step 3
Choose the “Window” menu, and then “Behaviors” to bring up the Behaviors panel.
. Step 4
Click on the “+” symbol and then choose “Open Browser Window” to view the Open Browser Window pop-up properties. Here, you can set the specific properties you would like to apply to your pop-up window.
. Step 5
Key in, copy and paste or browse to input the URL you wish the visitor to be directed to when he clicks on the word “Link” in your document.
. Step 6
Specify the width and height of the pop-up, as well as any attributes you want the pop-up to contain such as a toolbar, menu bar, status bar, scrollbars or resize handles and click “OK.”
. Step 7
Select “onClick” from the Events column in the Behaviors panel to set the pop-up window to occur when the word “Link” is clicked.
