Archive for the ‘CMS’ Category

I finally finished…or rather cleaned up my demo area of Archetype Marketing.  I have always had an area that I upload programs like Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, and other open source programs so I can learn them and use them to test modules, etc. before installing them on client sites.  I also use the area to do walk-throughs.  Clients “think” they can do certain things and after they try it they make think otherwise.  The other thing that I started to do is to design templates that will work on several of the options so that if a client changes their mind and wants to use WordPress instead of Drupal for example then I don’t have to start all over again from a design standpoint.  Sometimes the best solutions is to combine a few options to so this helps with keeping the branding to go across the various platforms.

I’ve also loaded a few template examples across multiple platforms so you can see how they can be loaded on several options.  This is really going to help me and MAN…I am so glad I got this done.

Yippy for me.  Another thing off my 2010 list.  I’m smoking right now.

Archetype Marketing's Demo Area

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I’ve recently designed two sites using Drupal 6.0, which is currently my CMS of choice (over Joomla, and others).

• Getting FCKEditor + IMCE + Lightbox to “just work” in Drupal.

• Adding an insert YouTube Button to FCKEditor.

Real Estate agents and brokers have a viable open-source program that provides many automated features for their agents and property listings.

Templates can be created to customize the look and feel.   I’ve played around with the program and didn’t have too many problems updating templates and customizing areas to suit my needs.

I’ve installed a demo site here: Marketing for Real Estate Professionals. 

Open-Realty 2.4.4

Open-Realty is an open source real estate listing manager. Intended to be both easy to install and easy to administer, Open-Realty uses PHP to drive a mySQL backend, thus creating a tool which is fast and flexible..