Responsive Websites Are Here!

To provide the best user experience on all of our websites regardless of the browsing device, we’re excited to announce the introduction of responsive websites.

Up to this point our platform automatically redirected a user to a mobile specific version of their site—a separate entity, distinct from the full site that is viewed on a desktop.
 

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5 Reasons Why You Might Need a Site Redesign

Here at Union Street Media, our clients often ask us a common question: “When do I know that my site needs a redesign?” After consulting our team of designers, developers, and internet marketers, we came up with the following reasons for why you might need a site redesign for your real estate website.

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Real Estate Website Launches: August 2014

It’s been a wild month at Union Street Media, and we’ve been pumping out websites like it’s going out of style. Our awesome team of designers and developers have been experimenting with real estate web design lately, and we’re seeing some awesome results from their efforts. Modern typefaces, sleek features, and an array of eye-catching colors make our latest batch of real estate website launches some of the best our company has ever seen.

From Harwood Home Team in Asheville, NC to Brattleboro Area Realty right here in the northeast, we’re proud to see these new clients join our ever-expanding family.

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Summertime Real Estate Website Launches

The summer months are always a busy time in the real estate world. Potential clients swarm the Internet in search of their new home, and they leave no website unturned in their journey. With that in mind, we design and optimize all of our sites to snatch up those potential leads so your business can reap the benefits.

We’ve been collaborating with our awesome clients over the past few weeks to deliver our latest batch of websites – dressed to the nines and ready to rumble. From the Chris von Trapp Real Estate team in our native Vermont to Boston’s Cantave Realty Group, we’ve been everywhere. This summer also marks an important time in Union Street Media’s history; we recently expanded into New York with our first website there (you can read more about that here). We’re doin’ big things, and we couldn’t be happier than to have our amazing clients family by our side.

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Why Having Your Friend’s Son or Son’s Friend Design Your New Real Estate Website is Not the Best Idea.

I have conversations with clients all the time that begin with “my friend/son/son’s friend designed my website and I like the look of the homepage but I don’t like the way it works with the MLS data and the navigation.” This is a common problem for Realtors® because the specific requirements of real estate data mean that being a good web designer does not mean that someone can build a good real estate website.

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Recent Website Launches

When a potential client comes to us looking for a new or redesigned website, it’s always exciting to imagine what we’ll come up with, how the design will progress and how the site will function.  It’s even more exciting when the site launches.  That has definitely been true for the following websites that we recently launched.  They represent a wide variety of client type and website needs.

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Website Construction: Internet Marketing for Real Estate Agents

Part 1: Real Estate Website Design and Functionality 101

“This blog series is intended to be a walk-through for setting up a lead generating website. My goal is to get you thinking about ways to improve your site and enhance its performance. Each blog post will be centered on a specific part of website development that will help you grow your online business. Some posts will be more specific and advanced, while others will be more general and introductory.  Taken together, the posts in this series will offer valuable tips, regardless of where you are with the maturity of your website.”

Design is an important element in website development. In the past the thought was to create animated, Flash-heavy websites that dazzled Internet searchers. Today, Internet Marketers say that Flash websites daze and confuse consumers, who have become more sophisticated at searching for websites thanks to companies like Google.

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This November: thanks for seven new website launches

As cheesy as it sounds, there’s nothing we’re more thankful for than the wonderful clients we get to work with every day.  We’re especially excited and thankful that we have so many new clients this year who have new sites that will drive business in their direction.  While in the future, you can expect to see our launches divided into Real Estate and Interactive, today, we wanted to highlight all of November’s launches.

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This month’s Real Estate website launches

Over the last month, Union Street Media has had the opportunity to launch new and redesigned websites for several clients.  We are happy to include them in our expanding portfolio.  In the following snapshots, we discuss the different ways in which we have either given an older site a refreshed look, or have used our Premium platform to build affordable, innovative real estate websites.

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