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  • 10-09-2007 8:22pm
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    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users Posts: 9,225 ✭✭✭


    looking at helping a friend out with a real estate website, very simple just a list of properties, description and photo. been messing around with joomla and drupal although i havent been able to get the hang of them and I am usually quite quick to pick these things up. anyone know some good tutorials or even a better cms to use?

    thanks!


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    DJB
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭DJB


    I've done a lot of property websites and I'd advise you not to use an open source cms. A custom built cms is usually better. I've built my own one that I use for many clients and it handles different property specific features much better for the client such as google map coordinates, photo upload and auto resizing, descriptions, prices, searching, etc.

    Maybe do a bit of searching around for an off the shelf real estate cms and use that as the backend but build the frontend from scratch based on the database. The frontends that come with these cms's aren't really great so you might want to build your own, depending on your skillset.

    If you need any advice or opinion on a particular one, let me know, as I've played with a lot of them out there.

    Rgds, Dave


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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    Call_me_al wrote:
    looking at helping a friend out with a real estate website, very simple just a list of properties, description and photo. been messing around with joomla and drupal although i havent been able to get the hang of them and I am usually quite quick to pick these things up. anyone know some good tutorials or even a better cms to use?

    thanks!
    Joomla & Mosets Hot Property or EZ Realty

    What is it about Joomla you are not getting the hang of?


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    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users Posts: 9,225 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    not really interested in writing my own backend coz its just a favour really and not being paid for it.
    looked at hot property before and ez reality before but i think they may6 be over kill.

    problems with joomlainclude not being able to get any links of the front page working and image handling really - i havent even begun to look at most of the functionality for users yet.


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    http://open-realty.org/

    loads of add-ons
    loads of templates


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