A friend came to me with an interesting project a few months ago. James K. Barath (Twitter: myCMPS) wanted me to transfer his content from a free blogging service to a self hosted blog and then turn it into a fully featured real estate website for Northwest Indiana.

The overall goal of the site was to make it so that if you search for ‘home values valparaiso’ or ‘mortgage chesterton’ that somewhere in the top 10 will be Welcome Home NWI – since the site is still new that hasn’t happened yet, but it will soon.

The key feature of the site is real time real estate data for several communities in Northwest Indiana from Altos Research. The graphs and real time data is dynamically generated every time the page is loaded.

The site is built upon WordPress. We’re using it as a basic content management system and also as a blog. We heavily modified the Studiopress Agent theme in order to fit it into what we’re doing.

Several things the site needed: customized contact forms to generate leads, social media integration since James is a prolific tweeter and SEO to target our geographic area.

The result, we think, is stunning. For the first time, Northwest Indiana now has a website completely dedicated to real estate data and home searching.

Check it out here.

If you’re interested in developing a fully featured and dynamic website, contact us for a free estimate.