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.

We recently put up a massive post about London iPhone apps and it caught the attention of a reporter across the pond. The spike in traffic was very nice.

The newspapers was the London free sheet, London Lite. Free sheets are London newspapers that are distributed for free on the London Underground and supported by ad revenue. It also happens to be the sister publication of my favorite London Newspaper, the Evening Standard.

We’re very chuffed to have been featured in a true and blue London newspaper and hope that this isn’t the only time!

Here’s a screencap of the mention – click for a bigger version:

Read the featured blog posts here.