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WIX plus IDX Broker

IDX Broker and WIX site for Alabama real estate office

Posted on by jamescall

Get all the MLS listings to your WIX real estate site WIX sites are the rage for all kinds of businesses. Get IDX Broker and connect all the MLS listings to your WIX real estate website. Webb and Company Real Estate in Leeds Alabama built out their own WIX website, but they wanted to have IDX Broker in order to show all of the MLS listings on their site. The folks at Webb and Company didn’t want to use WordPress for their site, and someone on their team was willing to build the new site on WIX. When they contacted […]

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Best map search for IDX Broker

Maxima Map Search for IDX Broker – Video

Posted on by jamescall

With our new Maxima Map Search for IDX Broker, your clients will get the great map search functionality that was only available on big portal sites like Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, and Realtor.com. We are making this available to all our IDX Broker clients for free during this month. Is this really the best map search for IDX Broker? We had a few clients like Yanai and others who wanted the best map search available. We listened to them and worked hard on these new templates that we got from IDX Broker. With this map search you can quickly find properties […]

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real estate wordpress ssl

The Joy of SSL

Posted on by jamescall

When you think of real estate, you don’t often think about the importance of security, but for your real estate website, having a SSL certificate can be important.  This is what gives you that little green padlock in the corner of your browser and makes all of your webpages use HTTPS instead of HTTP. What is SSL? SSL literally means Secure Sockets Layer.  It provides an encrypted way to send data.  Today we actually see a lot of TLS being referred to as SSL, but that is really something for the “techies” to worry about. According to Globalsign.com there are […]

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Questions to ask about WordPress and IDX website

3 Questions NOT to Ask When Getting a New Real Estate Website

Posted on by jamescall

I had an interesting chat conversation with a prospective customer the other day. To protect his privacy, let’s say his name is Ron. How does RealtyCandy compare to all of your competitors? Ron was asking me to justify purchasing a RealtyCandy website vs. one of our competitors. That is a great question, except I really don’t know what our competitors have. Does that mean we don’t watch the market or we don’t know what is going on in the real estate world? Not necessarily. We do follow what happens in the real estate industry and we have been members of […]

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Avada Theme and IDX

Avada and IDX: A powerful combination for your real estate site

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RealtyCandy provides IDX Broker setups for best-selling themes like Avada, WPResidence, and Houzez, and we recently started providing BYOT* setups for these themes for a much smaller price. Avada Theme is a very popular theme, but it’s not a real estate theme like WPResidence and Houzez. This shouldn’t stop you from considering it for your real estate website though, and we are here to tell you why. About the Avada theme Avada is one of the best selling themes of Envato Market and it’s no wonder. It’s a theme that you can work with to create a beautiful and professional […]

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