Hi All, hope I've posted in the right area! Could anyone advise me of easy to implement real estate database template that I can use on a real estate site that I am designing? I would like to be able to customise the look myself if possible. Any help much appreciated.

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Sproutmedia web site designers Gold Coast Australia

I've implemented, and will continue to augment, my own database solution based off of php and mySQL. Not sure if you have ever used these technologies, but they are strong, open source, free, and if coded correctly, you can build your website to scale effectively (i.e. easily accomodate 100's of listings at the same time).

If you're looking for something out of the box, I believe that there are some other solutions discussed on this very site.

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Thanks Boulder Realtor. I have decided to build my own from scratch as my clients have very specific features and are quite different to the templates I have seen. Well better get stuck into it as a lot of work ahead of me lol

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Sproutmedia web site designers Gold Coast Australia

Walrus, in looking around the forum more this past week, I am seeing more and more about open realty, which appears to be an open source offering for real estate listings on your own site.

http://www.open-realty.org/

It looks like this would be a good starting point if you didn't want to code everything on your own.

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285 Columbus Lofts - New 63-unit Boston loft development in the former Red Cross building
FP3 Boston Condos - FP3 Fort Point Channel Boston Seaport Condos
Boston Real Estate - Providing Google Map based search of condo developments

What are you asking? For a database backend? A site architecture? The concept of a dynamic web site is straight forward.

1. Build a template with a designated content area
2. Format your content pages and put them into a database table
3. Load the content dynamically when called

The template is simply a shell for the content, see http://cssdesignmagic.com/website-magic.html. The major advantage is the separation of content from design.

All my sites are dynamic loading modules based on the above concept. At a minimum I use modules for:

meta tags
css/xhtml design
navigation menu
content pages
footer

I can provide an inexpensive solution for you if you are interested.

Thanks again for all your assistance everyone. The requirements my client is after far exceed any off the shelf product unfortunately. I am going to have to build it from the bottom up as it also needs to have Japanese and Chinese information loaded into the database.....hmmm not looking forward to this project lol

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Sproutmedia web site designers Gold Coast Australia

I doubt you are advertising an Internet Date Xchange but that is what your nav bar on left says I hate it when I miss things like that!

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Aaron

Minneapolis Real Estate | Twin Cities Real Estate | Edina Realty Agent

Not sure what your comment means. I have a team that does IDX to web site MLS conversions. I don't push it as I get sufficient work through referrals. I am restructing the site and I will attempt to remove any inconsistancies.

Back to the topic, I am working on a series of pages and articles about templates. You can get to them at http://cssdesignmagic.com/template-anatomy.htm. The pages are still in draft form and need work so any feedback, comments would be appreciated.

Aaronsold means that the menu bar on the left of your website says "Internet Date Xchange", a typo that should say "Internet Data Xchange". Going to check out your templates now to add to my resources should another one of these real estate jobs come along. Cheers.

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Sproutmedia web site designers Gold Coast Australia

Thank you, I really appreciate you clarifying the mistake.

One of the benefits of template modules is that when a change is needed the change is made in one file for it to take effect site wide. With static pages I would have had to make the menu correction on 58 pages.

Thanks again.