Domicilo Single Property Websites

Half Nut Development introduces Domicilo the Half Nut single property real estate website solution.  In today’s real estate market you need something to set yourself apart from every other real estate agency and agent. Domicilo gives you that advantage with creating a single property real estate website for each one of your properties.

Domicilo Basic Benefits

• A low-cost Website dedicated to each of your specific properties. Great for high-end properties!
• No high start-up costs to develop a full website.
• Full years hosting with property specific domain name/url.
• Advanced web design and development optimized for search engine optimization (SEO), Google, Bing, Yahoo!
• Custom website templates, templates look like your site and not a bland cookie-cutter template.
• Bulk discounts for multiple sites.
• Photo Gallery
• Property Details
• Contact form for showing reservations
• Google maps location
• Your contact information
• Website traffic analytic to track customer usage
• 20% Discount for multiple sites!

Domicilo Advanced Options

• Options for mobile/smart phone development
• Virtual Tours
• Facebook, Twitter and Blogging capabilities
• Open House Calendar
• more…

Domicilo Basic Pricing

Contact us today at sales@halfnutdevelopment.com or phone us at 801-560-8812 for more details and to get setup with your own Domicilo account.

How it Works

1. Select a domain for a property -Example: www.3293w11525s.com.
2. Gather images for photo gallery
3. Gather information about property
4. Show us your website or desired look and feel for your template
5. Send all the information to Half Nut and we’ll setup your site and add all the information to your template.
6. Put the small URL on yard signs and advertising materials to focus on bringing people to that property.

We handle all the heavy lifting for you.  Just provide the basic information for each property and we handle all the technical registration, hosting setup, design and development of getting your site live!

Here are a few examples:

• www.oldEnglishTudor.com
• www.avenuescharm.com
• www.cozybungalow.com
• www.holladaytownhouse.com
• www.westgateloft.com
• www.remodeledholladayhome.com
• www.libertyparkcottage.com

My Month-long Google Products Experiment: Google Blog Search

Last week I was the lucky winner of a back operation that I needed to take care of a few herniated disks.  This left we with some time on my hands as the doctor advised against much vigorous activity.   That and the operation itself left me to build my own pulpit to talk about what’s on my mind.  My idea was to take a different Google Product each day and try to use it throughout the day to see if it was something I wanted to continue doing.  Sort of a daily challenge.  The last episode had me reviewing Google’s Alert tool which I found to be more intriguing than I had first thought and may be a tool I add to my permanent arsenal.

In this continuing webisode of my experiences using Google Products for a month I’ll be looking at Google’s Blog Search.  At first glance the Blog Search seems pretty much like a non-event.  It appears to be just Google Search and Google News mashed up.  However to do my due diligence in reviewing the tool I tried one of my favorite search terms. Call  me narcissistic but who doesn’t like to Google oneself?  I tried the term Utah Semantic Markup.  Remember the old adage that you never try something in a demo that you haven’t done before.  Alternatively you never ask a question that you don’t know how the person will answer.  Well, I thought I knew the answer to this question but was surprised.

When I did a Blog search for the Utah Semantic Markup term I saw none of the results I expected.  I wasn’t there, even though I’d spent countless hours designing and developing my site to be the premier site for semantic markup in Utah.  At this point I knew they must be querying different datasources as I was no where to be found.  Kudos goes to Google for putting a Web Search right next to the Blog Search so you can see the differences.  A quick search for Utah Semantic Markup sure enough showed Half Nut Development as the top result in my Google Search.

Now I know Google knows about my blog as it’s rescued me several times before I found a good back-up tool, but the search didn’t seem to know about me.  I then searched for some documentation as to just what is being indexed in the Google Blog Search.

At the bottom of the first search page is a link for documentation or about the Google Blog Search.  In this document there is a FAQ that asks my question which was what blogs are being indexed?  Google says, “The goal of Blog Search is to include every blog that publishes a site feed (either RSS or Atom). It is not restricted to Blogger blogs, or blogs from any other service.”

Not having been a big fan of RSS feeds I don’t have one on my site.  This also tells me why my results aren’t showing up in the Blog Search.  In essence I’m missing out on any searches done with Google Blog Search.  In order to  fix this I made a mental note to setup my RSS feed in Wordpress.  I also found a simpler more lazy option which works for me as a programmer. I can go to http://blogsearch.google.com/ping to manually add my site to the search.  Now the test will be how long will it take to index my blog.  If past results are any indicator then I expect to have it within the week if not sooner.

As mentioned above much of the content we have or want to wade through may seem trivial but one feature of the Google Blog Search helps to filter the data we must slosh through.  They have links on the left-hand side to filter content according to time, by the last hour, last 12 hours, last day, week, month or anytime.  Alternatively you can choose a specific date range with the help of a handy pop-up calendar.

Overall Grade: C

Pros: Great at limiting search to blog content only.

Cons: I think the reasons why the tool is good is also the reason why I wouldn’t use the product.  How often would I mentally say I just want to search blog content.  This is the opposite of what I expect when I come to Google or any other search engine.  I want it to find what I’m looking for regardless of where it’s at.  I understand for Google and from a technology standpoint it makes sense to filter the content to reduce the quantity of content to search through, but it will take a great user interface to make it usable by the masses.

We do the highest quality web design and development. We make your site fast and findable, meaning we can help you get ranked on Google and other search engines.

We have the skills and experience. We’ve been doing web design since 1996 and we’ve worked with some of the biggest clients in the state and around the world. Let us bring that experience to your web site.

You’ll find cheaper but you won’t find better. With web design you truly do get what you pay for.

Check out our sites at www.halfnutdevelopment and www.5nut.com.

Email us today for a free bid at sales@halfnutdevelopment.com.

Web Page Design
* Shopping Carts
* Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
* Slicing Photoshop/Illustrator Designs into XHTML & CSS
* Logo design
* Corporate identity
* Custom graphics and icon design
* Advanced XHTML Semantic markup, tableless design
* Accessibility, Section 508 and WCAG
* Design & Development for viewing with iPhone
* Blog, MySpace & other community customizations
* E-Commerce
* Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
* Web 2.0 Design
* Experienced with corporate level design practices (MVC/MVP)

Web Development

* CSS -Tableless design
* Semantic Markup/W3C Coding Standards
* HTML, XHTML, DHTML
* XML & XSLT
* LAMP, PHP, MySQL ASP
* Perl, Ruby on Rails, Python
* WordPress, Drupal and Zen Cart
* .Net, ASPX, SQL Server
* AJAX, JQuery & JavaScript
* MySQL, Oracle & database design
* Flash

Web Site Evaluation

* We can run a free 50 point evaluation to measure and improve
o Aesthetics & Look and Feel -Keep it current to keep people coming back!
o User Experience (UX) -How User Friendly is your site?
o Validity of all code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) Errors prevent people from seeing your site and make it slower.
o Accessibility -Are you in compliance with Section 508 and WCAG.
o Site Speed -If your site is slow people will leave, learn how to make it faster!
o Browser testing -How does your site look on a Mac with Safari or other browsers?

Web Hosting

* Value and Corporate level Web Hosting
* Domain Purchasing
* Web log analysis
* Web Based Email hosting
* Virus scanning of your site
* Making your pages database driven with dynamic content
* Backup Solutions
* FTP access to your files
Contact us today at sales@halfnutdevelopment.com or call 801-560-8812.

Shopping Carts, ECommerce and Merchant Accounts…All You’ll Need to Sell Your Products and Services Online?

If you’re like most people your eyes glazed over after reading the first line.  Most people have an idea of what products and services they want to sell on line but have no idea of how they can accomplish this monumental task.

This is where Half Nut Development comes in.  We have over 12 years of experience working with customers to get their products and services online.  We can help you with every step along the way from the customer visiting your site to paying with credit cards.

If you look at our product and services offerings as well as our portfolio you’ll see the past work we’ve done from the simplest of shopping carts with Pay Pal to full-blown ecommerce solutions that are just the right fit.

We know how complicated it can get to setup a shopping cart online so we’ve made an easy to follow list on getting your business started on the internet.   We’ve helped numerous customers sell their goods online from vitamins to t-shirts.  Here are a few of the important steps to remember when your looking at getting a shopping cart ready.  We have a number of solutions from OSCommerce and Zen Cart to our own custom shopping cart (Half Nut Cart).

• Obtain a Merchant Account -Example: Authorize.net
• Obtain a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate -Example:GoDaddy.com
• Install/Enable a Shopping Cart -Example Zen Cart, osCommerce
• Configure Shopping Cart
• Implement Design in Shopping Cart

Here is how we were able to help Sea Turtle Swimwear get their business off the ground.

Company: Sea Turtle Swimwear

Our mission is to bring you swimwear options that offer quality, uniqueness, protection and personalized service. So let your children SPLASH, PLAY, and EXPLORE.
Pardon the dust, we’re under construction right now.

Website: www.seaturtleswimwear.com

Technology: eCommerce/Shopping Cart with Zen Cart, LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), XHTML, CSS and Graphic design & layout.

Visit our page today at www.halfnutdevelopment.com and request a free bid on your next web project.

Do you have your website designed on paper or your head and need to convert your Photoshop files into HTML and CSS?

Whether your an amateur web designer or just need some extra help to get your designs web ready, Half Nut Development can help.

We have over 12 years of experience taking graphic designs and carving them up into HTML.  We specialize in using semantic markup and tableless design so you know you’re getting the highest quality work.  We make sure to validate our code against the W3C’s coding standards to make sure the designs work out well in all the major browsers.

Many companies both large and small in and around Utah have come to Half Nut Development to have us produce the code whether they’re short-handed or just want to outsource the whole project we’ve been there and pulled through to meet requirements and deadlines.  Let us take all the frustration out of your design and you can just concentrate on running your business.

If you look at our product and services offerings as well as our portfolio you’ll see the past work we’ve done as an outsource resource to many companies.  We can work as part of your team allowing you more flexibility in resources.  We’re simply paid as a 1099 contractor and let us worry about everything else.  Just point us at your project and we can get it done.

Visit our page today at www.halfnutdevelopment.com and request a free bid on your next web project.