Preferred Properties New Website Created by Dean Harman

Preferred Properties Land and Homes owner, Trisha Bush, recently hired us to create and publish a new website for the Walla Walla Realty office.

I was, of course, more than happy that they could put their trust into my website designing skills.

The website had to be very user friendly, conform to the Preferred Properties Land and Homes color scheme and, for my own requirements, had to be built entirely without the use of those horrible tables that so many HTML authors love to use.  The code should conform to strict standards and be designed and controlled by nothing else but CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

I wanted the website to hold a page reserved for our Virtual Tours that we had already completed and to be expandable for any new virtual tours and video tours that would soon populate it.

A challenge in itself to use nothing but CSS, I soon found out that a Realtor website had to also include the popular MLS search functions.  It wasn’t long before I realized that would require much more than a simple link to some far away MLS service.  It took me many weeks to learn all the ropes of MLS and IDX search functions, how they work and how to get them to load up properly without annoying prospective clients.

Trisha Bush and her staff were more than patient with me as I slogged my way through the learning curve.  More than once I thought I had chomped into more than I could swallow.  But, somehow, hard work and late night sessions in front of my computer came up with a pretty nice website.

As I peeked into other Walla Walla Real Estate websites, I noticed more than a few Real Estate professionals were lacking updated websites and especially noticed the absence of good, interactive virtual tours!  The door is wide open for improvement among Realtors to market their properties and I will soon be visiting local Walla Walla Realtors to show them how our Virtual Tours differ from what they may be used to.

This Interactive Virtual Tour is of a home in College Place Washington that was built by local Walla Walla builder Jeff Moeller.  The home was featured in last years Parade of Homes for the Walla Walla area and I think the home has sold!

Click on the picture or the link to see the virtual tour of 724 Bedford Loop

 http://rtvpix.com/RE-7362-033AJK-01

Link to Preferred Properties Land and Homes

http://preferredww.com

Dean Harman

wwtourguide@bmi.net

541-938-7079 Office

541-215-2884 Cell

 

Virtual Tours of two separate homes at Walla Walla Country Cllub!

The latest virtual tour is of a home up on Country Club Road in Walla Walla.  This is the second home on Country Club Road I have done a virtual tour for in the past 6 months!

You can view the virtual tour of 1391 Country Club Road in Walla Walla from this link: Click here to see the interactive virtual tour by Dean Harman

This home is situated directly across from the Walla Walla Country Club clubhouse.  You could have access pretty easily to their facilities including the swimming pool and the tennis courts from right out your front door.

This is a view of the front of the home

Here are a few of the great features of this open home:

The Octagon shaped exercise room,

And the connecting library and sun room

The first tour we did at the Walla Walla Country Club was of a home that was purchased, torn down to the foundation and rebuilt around an awesome wine room and custom built for luxury living at the golf club by Walla Walla developer Rick Voth.

Of course the virtual tour of 700 Country Club is the best way to view this custom home in Walla Walla and can be seen at this link:  www.700countryclub.com

Here is a Before picture taken by builder/owner Rick Voth of Voth Construction in Walla Walla.

Here is a picture of the finished home

There is quite a difference.

Here a panorama photo of the back patio showing the outdoor kitchen area:

Dean Harman

wwtourguide@bmi.net

541-938-7079 Office

541-215-2884 Cell