I/E Speaks

Here at Imaginations Everything we’ve had a busy year despite the slow down in the real estate market. We’ve balanced out some of the shortfall by creating a few smaller sites for other businesses. Here’s some of the highlighted sites we launched, or relaunched in 2008:

Jan Horn - Long time client Jan Horn was looking for a fresh new look for his website. After doing some brainstorming with him, we relaunced a site that was much more streamline, and more in line with his business of selling architecturally significant homes. (see this post for more details)

Gina Martino and Maureen McDermutt - Both these agents were looking for sites. They are sisters, and we came up with a creative way of keeping site design costs down. We came up with a common look and feel, content, and then developed a site for each of them. Since they are in different geographical areas, they still stand apart from their competition with a custom site design.

Ultra LA Homes – Los Angeles Real Estate Agent, Jonathan Shelton’s site was developed from one of our semi-custom designs.

Katie Moss – Kaite came to us wanting a site to show off her landscape garden business. She was looking for something simple, very minimalist, but with high impact visually.  After having an initial discussion, and sending her some pricing and direction ideas, we quickly settled on a flash presentation. Katie also wanted to be able to keep her portfolio up to date herself, so we installed our photo gallery tool, which she’s been using since February and loving it.

2 Flower Girls – This fresh and sassy site shows off the talents of flower girls Diana Carr and PJ Richardson.

Deb Gillespie – A semi custom offering re-purposed for a spiritual teacher and reiki master located in Montreal.

Long time client Jan Horn (www.janhorn.com) was looking for new look for the site we had designed for him back in 2003. Initially we had come up with a site for him that had a fair amount of content. With most realtor sites, we want the content to feed the search engines need for words they can scan to rank the sites.

Since Los Angeles is a very competitive market in terms of getting ranked high in the search engines, and since the client’s is working a niche market of architecturally significant homes, we decided to create a new site for hi that spoke more to that market, than play the search engine game.

We don’t often take this approach, but in Jan’s case it made sense. We work very hard at working with our clients to come up with individual solutions for their business, and for www.janhorn.com we came up with a site that’s as stunning as the homes he represents.

Imaginations Everything launched a new site this week; www.katiemoss.com.

Kaite came to us wanting a site to show off her landscape garden business. She was looking for something simple, very minimalist, but with high impact visually.  After having an initial discussion, and sending her some pricing and direction ideas, we quickly settled on a flash presentation.

As the project moved forward, we also added our new photo gallery tool,  so we could upload over 60 images she had of her gardens, to use in working with clients when discussing future landscape projects. This gallery has a back end, and katie can continue to easily add images as she goes.

Though katie chose not to, the gallery tool also allows you to have categories, which we’ve added to another site http://www.citadelrenovations.com/gallery.html. Though the gallery tool has some restrictions, you can see it’s pretty easily adaptable to flow with a site’s look and feel.

posted by Kim Hadley

As the year comes to a close, we are proud to showcase some of the sites we launched in 2007:

Realtors

• www.jonathanshelton.com - This site is based on one of our semi custom designs. LA realtor Jonathan Shelton wanted a site to be able to present to his market in Los Angeles. We were looking for something that brought a high visual impact, and gave him a good foot in the door, as he’s a new agent.
• www.scottsdalerealestateteam.com – Custom site created for a well established Scottsdale real estate team. This site melds a great call to action, with search engine optimization all the while targeting the Luxury Scottsdale Real Estate market.
• www.soldbyspeed.com – Another well established real estate agent came to us for a custom site. He had previously had a templated site, and wasn’t happy with marketing it, as it came across as such. We gave him a site with great call to action, a solid visual impact. As do 90% of our realtor sites we’ve installed a Real Estate Marketing Garage Listing Tool as well as a blog.
• www.lareosolutions.com  - Long time client, Coco Clayman Cook commissioned us to do a site for her new direction in selling REO properties. (other sites we’ve done for her are www.lacondolifestyles.com and www.westsidelifestyles.com). Again, a huge effort made on the site to get her google recognition, as well as a strong call to action, and blog.
• www.geoff-bobbie.com – Top producing Ottawa based team Geoff and Bobbie McGowan hired us to create a custom designed site that reflected their long standing business in the area.

Other

• www.palamanui.com  - This site is a custom designed site, with a big focus on the opening intro to set the stage for this new development in Hawaii. The site will evolve as the development does. A great effort was made to make sure the site is found on the search engines, but at the same time retains a visual impact.
• www.monaco.ca - A new look for this long time doberman breeder. She breeds quality dobermann’s, with solid European bloodlines, and we wanted to give her a site that speaks to the quality she strives for. One of the unique features is giving her an image gallery that she can easily update herself, as well as a blog.
• www.kristinteriors.com – A Los Angeles based interior designer hired us to create a custom site to showcase her business. Our aim was to produce a site that spoke clearly to her business, which is strongly visual. We also gave her a photo gallery, that she’s able to upkeep herself.
• www.dremory.com – Los Angeles based doctor, Hamlin Emory needed a site that highlighted the innovative work he does with the brain. A site that enabled patients and potential patients to understand the work, as well as download documents needed to work with Dr. Emory. Dr Emory has an associate in Seattle area, so we took the same look, and created a site for him as well www.drshatsky.com.
• Last but certianly not least, we re-vamped our own www.imaginationseverything.com site!

posted by Kim Hadley