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

As I was doing some research today on web design and development for lawyers I came across several good resources and wanted to share them.  While we do great web design and development for lawyers, these are a number of blogs that lawyers would enjoy about being a better lawyer.

We’re focusing on designing web sites for lawyers.  Take a look at http://www.halfnutdevelopment.com/utah-law-or-accounting-web-site-development.php this page for more details.

You can see http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/library/the-top-100-law-and-lawyer-blogs.html for a great list of these sites and a very dapper looking photo of the suspected owner!

Google Page Rank 7

• http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog
• http://overlawyered.com/
• http://blogs.wsj.com/law/

Google Page Rank 6

• http://kevin.lexblog.com/
• http://legaltimes.typepad.com/
• http://www.bespacific.com/
• http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/
• http://www.the10b-5daily.com/

Google Page Rank 5

• http://www.legaljuice.com/
• http://www.ecommercelaw.typepad.com/
• http://blog.internetcases.com/

Google Page Rank 4

• http://www.abovethelaw.co

My client Future Form Designs is a pre-cast concrete studio located in Salt lake City, Ut. that is
dedicated to the design and production of eco-friendly products for interior and exterior spaces.

Their line includes concrete countertops, sinks, fireplace surrounds, and landscape products.

In looking at quality companies that compliment my clients business of Pre-Cast Concrete I found the following businesses and have posted their Google Page Rank.  We search through a lot of links out there to find the best blog and pages to link to so that we have only quality sites.

Google Page Rank 4

http://www.easyecoblog.com/

http://www.greenzer.com/blog/

Google Page Rank 3

http://www.greatgreengoods.com/

http://eco-hip.blogspot.com/

http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/green-remodeling-countertops-460205

Google Page Rank 2

http://concretefencewallsblog.artisanprecast.com/
http://www.ecoshopper.net/

http://www.modernecohomes.com/blog/

Okay, sorry I missed yesterday on my list of Google products to test.  I have to admit I’m turning into somewhat of an Apple junkie.  With the release of Apple’s iPad yesterday I got a bit sidetracked.  I don’t know if it’s the form or the function I love best about Apple products, but they catch my eye.  Having said that I do seem to have a certain monetary threshold for my addiction.  I ponied up for the iPod, the iPhone and Apple TV but I just can’t seem to buy a Macbook when I can get a rather nice HP Notebook with a large screen for a third of the price of a Macbook.  Who knows, maybe the iPad will be my first step towards a bigger Mac machine. I am finding the price of the iPad a bit daunting even though they noted the price as a selling point, it’s hard to pay that much for a non-vital piece of hardware.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m dreaming up uses for the thing as we speak but we’ll have to see if I can actually justify it.

Now to get back focused on the reason of this posting I do have an interesting antidote about Google products.  I think I fairly open minded about trying new technology, so I’ve been trying to use the Exchange to search for messages and the Windows search to search for files.  I’ve got to say that I find using these tools like showering with my shirt on.  It just doesn’t feel quite right and I’m never really sure about the results.  I finally got fed up with it the other night and went back to using Google Desktop.  I think we’re pretty safe at saying up until Bing that Microsoft just has not understood search.  I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here, but time after time I’ve been disappointed by Microsoft search results.  On more than one occasion I’ve been forced to use Sharepoint as a corporate web site.  If you’ve ever used this you know the search and menu system suck to put it bluntly.

I was in the need to get my 1099 information to my accountant and was busily searching nook and cranny for information and finally got fed up.  It took me a few seconds to remember that Google is a web company and that the interface is of course any browser.  It doesn’t even have to be Chrome, I can continue to use my beloved Firefox browser and all is right with the world.  I can search Google and or my desktop to find content.  It was like riding a bike, within minutes I was back in the saddle searching and “Finding” content I needed.   Chalk one up for Google Desktop.

One complaint that I do have about Google Desktop and it seems like Google products in general is that they are a bit too minimalistic.  I mean can you think of images that represent their products?  Microsoft has it’s colored flag, Office has it’s puzzle pieces, Apple has an…wait for it…apple on ll it’s products.  What does Google have to represent their products or even Google as a brand, two O’s possibly.  I was looking for an image to liven up the post as images catch the eye better than text and what could I really use, the icon?

My Month-long Google Products Experiment: Google Books

Now were on day three of our Google Products experiment.  To give a quick recap of what we’ve covered thus far, day one saw us revisiting Google Alerts.  I’ve got to say that I’ve actually anticipated checking my email each day.  I might mention that this has been one of my Gmail account.  Now before anyone starts crying foul I’ve had a gmail account for three or four years and never used it.  I got it first as it was something new but didn’t like using it and still don’t, but we’ll save the details of that for another day.  It was quickly abandoned in favor of my Yahoo Mail account.  I kept the Gmail account as a spam catcher and it’s remained that way until this day.  Anyway, I digress.   The point is that I’ve actually been interested in checking my mail to see just what Google Alerts had scrounged up for me today.  So far Google Alerts have kept my interest.

Next up was Google Blog Search.  As opposed to Google Alerts I don’t feel the same excitement to revisit the Blog Search.  It seemed superfluous the first time I used it and I still feel the same way today.

Now for today’s product to evaluate, we’ll take a look at Google Books.    At first glance Google Books looks like a ho-hum portal for Jr. Highschool book reports.  I see old copies of Life Magazine, never-before heard of “classic” books and old rag magazines about Don Cheadle.  Yawn…  Maybe it’s me, maybe I just don’t get it.  Maybe it’s the same reason I don’t own an Amazon Kindle or read books on my iPhone.  I never want to read an entire book on line.  Reading is a sacrosanct act for me and you just can’t beat a physical, tangible book in your hands and the smell of a new book.

There’s got to be something more behind having these books online.  I don’t think Google would go through the effort to create and maintain the site without a reason.  I dug deeper and scrolled to the bottom for the About Google Books link.  Here Google provides five reasons why the have added these resources to the internet.

1. Search:  This makes sense for all those jr. high school book reports, little Jonny needs a resource to quote.
2. Browse Books Online:  Let me drop my smug persona (we write what we know, right)  for a bit and I guess I can imagine that there are people unable to visit their local library or afford to purchase all the standard classics for themselves.  This could be a dream come true for many people to have access to all these tombs.
3. Learn More–Fast:  Not only have they made it possible for little Jonny to read all about Don Cheadle, they’ve provided all sorts of meta data about each work like references and maps. Okay, that’s a good thing too….I guess.
4. Buy the Book …or Borrow it from the Library:   Ah  now we’re getting somewhere.  We can actually purchase the magazine about Don Cheadle.  At last!  Surely I jest, I’m a proud American capitalist, why else would I be writing this…;-)  We can leave number four without mentioning the last part of this item, the … borrow it from the Library portion.  Now I this is a great tie in, I love it when something serves more than one purpose.
5. Where do the Books Come From:  This is the kick for me or what makes the whole thing worth while.  I love libraries and history, this project is joining the two for the best of both worlds.  In number five Google tells us where the books come from and about their Partner Program and the Library Project.

Overall Grade: C

Pros: Documenting some of the best works for all time.  Making content available to millions of people around the world.

Cons: I have to read about Don Cheadle. ;-)  I don’t like to read books on-line.  What’s the longevity of this product for me.  Honestly I’ve never used it before and will probably never use it in the future.  I have many of these works available for me for free as well on my iPhone but I don’t read them there either.