We have just launched our latest website, www.burrowsestateagents.co.uk , an estate agent based in St Austell, Cornwall.
We did an estate agents site last year at www.duckworthpotter.co.uk and liked what we did on that one. Estate agent sites are notoriously hard to get right, and most estate agents seem to not really understand what their website is for, especially with the ubiquitous reliance on rightmove.
With both sites we wanted to get the visitors browsing houses in the shortest amount of time, without any sign up, distraction, or that all important "eye meandering."
With the www.burrowsestateagents.co.uk site we programmed a brand new control using AJAX that we call the "Show me" control, its pretty nifty. You select an option and in close to real time it displays a list of all the properties that match that option. Then when you select another option the list is filtered again but dependent upon your first option. it means visitors to the sight can hone in an what they are looking for really quickly and simply. The client loves it, so do we:)
In our original design we just had the blue sky on load, which looked dramatic and modern but, the client wanted to have the "about text" on the main page, so we did.
Meh, everyone is happy and thats all good.
