Need ideas for making website building more efficient.

[fuzzybabybunny]

So I'm getting into real estate websites. I go into a house, take stills and panoramas, process them, and make a virtual tour website for the realtor.

Here's my most recent site (house info is incorrect as of this time): http://www.victorlinphoto.com/...1688samedra/index.html

I can make this into a template, but then for each house I would need to add in unique information like:

1. House address
2. House specs
3. Realtor image and info
4. Unique links for the embedded googlemaps based on address, and unique link to the "school info" based on zip code.
5. Welcome title
6. Website title
7. I also need to register a unique domain with domain masking for each house because this is standard practice in the industry. Instead of www.victorlinphoto.com/realestate/houseaddress it'll just be www.houseaddress.com.

This information takes a LOT of time to put in for each website, especially considering that half the time I'm out and about taking photos and processing them.

Is there some faster way to add this info into my webpage? I was thinking that I could create a form that the realtor could fill in - house address, specs, link to her image/website, contact info, welcome title. And then that form could autopopulate the webpage in a predetermined format. And it would autogenerate and put in links for the googlemaps and school info stuff.

Is this possible? Where do I even start?

 

[Markbnj]

Yes, there are lots of faster ways, and everything you mentioned is possible, and in fact normal practice.

These are some options, in order of cost, ascending:

- Roll your own using database and CMS software, i.e. MySql and Drupal/Django, Sql Server Express (even Access) and Dot Net Nuke, or something like that.

- Look at a pre-integrated content management package like Wordpress.

- Look for a real estate oriented presentation package that you customize.

- Roll your own using Cold Fusion or similar 4GL web development tool.

- Roll something completely custom using a primary framework like ASP.Net or JSP.

Of course in any of these approaches that don't require license fees you can trade money for your own time, if you have the skills you need.

 

[heymrdj]

A CMS sounds like what you need. CMS for real estate in google gives alot of options. This one seems like a good one:

http://www.cmsrealty.org/