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LINK MV IDX Feed Solutions

If you are a real estate company on Martha's Vineyard and a member of LINKMV, Heather has developed two solutions for displaying the LINKMV IDX feed on your website.

1. If you don't have a website yet, or want to redo your current website, Heather Goff has developed this customizable prototype built on a wordpress blog platform - the goffgrafix-blog-realestate site.
   It pulls the real estate listings from the Martha's Vineyard LINK multiple listing feed (LINKMV).
   Because it is set up on a wordpress platform, it gives you all of the advantages that a blog can offer: you can add to and update content, post blog posts, syndicate your content, password protect pages and posts, and build a site rich in keywords. Heather can customize the site's graphics to match your company's colors and branding. Click here to view the prototype and to learn more.
   
   
   
2. If you already have a website and just want to add the feed to it, Heather has developed the programming to parse the IDX feed to display the listings directly on your website, as well as reporting functionality. You must have a valid contract and key from LINK Martha's Vineyard. To see the prototype, please click here. The cost is $20/month subscription plus a 1 time installation fee.

   The monthly subscription covers any maintenance and programming changes as the feed evolves. The installation fee is just the cost of the time it takes to install the programming on your website, with customizations, charged at $75/hour. The average installation for existing goffgrafix.com clients is between 1 and 2 hours. If you do not host with goffgrafix.com and/or you are not an existing goffgrafix.com client, the installation will take more time. For more information on the prototype and system requirements, please click here.

Customized Blogs

Heather has a blog package that comes with hosting, the Thesis theme, lots of great plugins and her help customizing your blog to match your business needs. She can set up your blog to act more like a traditional website with a content management system, so this is a quick and affordable way to get a website up that you can manage. View More >>

Questions to Ask Your Web Design Company

Before you hire a web design company, here are some important questions to ask:

1. Who is going to be designing and programming my site?
   If you are approaching a large design firm, you may very well be paying top dollar for an entry level designer, or, if it is a small company that you are researching, they may outsource parts of the site. You have a right to know exactly who is going to be working on your project, and what their credentials are.
2. Ask to see examples of work done by current staff.
   A web design company may have a very impressive portfolio to show you, but are the designers who contributed to that portfolio still working for that company? Sometimes they aren't. Ask to see examples of work done by the current staff, so that you can make an informed decision about who will be designing your site.

When you work with goffgrafix.com, you are hiring Heather Goff to program and design your site. Heather brings years of experience in programming and visual design to your project. If there is a piece of the site that needs to be outsourced, Heather will put you in direct contact with a selection of qualified professionals, and you will choose the best fit for your company and work directly with them. See examples of web sites designed by Heather Goff.

Here are a list of important resources for before you start designing your web site. These resources answer many initial questions.