Novembers HomeQuest Open House
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HomeQuest hosts monthly Open Houses here at our office where you can come and learn about IDX Blogger and HomeQuest in a small group environment with the HQ support team. Come ask questions, see new things, and get small unofficial trainings on new features and parts of HomeQuest that you may not have used before.
Ask us about:
- The Market Analyzer
- Getting the most out of your IDX Blogger website
- Managing your website content
- Adding community information to your listings map
- and more
Come join us on Monday November 16, 2009 from 12 noon to 4pm. Drop in anytime for some snacks and HomeQuest goodness.
Our office is located at 2211 NW Front St Portland, OR 97209. Go in the bright orange door.
HomeQuest is Hiring!
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The team at HomeQuest is growing and we have 2 new positions open with interviews starting immediately.
Wordpress Theme Designer/Developer – Website Manager
We provide a work environment that is innovative and extremely creative. Promoting authenticity is what we are all about. As a team, we work on many different projects and are constantly rolling out new ideas along the way. Our office is located in a funky warehouse space in Northwest Portland.
Position: Wordpress Theme Designer/Developer – Website Manager
Key responsibilities:
- Design Wordpress compositions in Photoshop or edit existing templates to Suit
- Code Wordpress compositions into clean, validated html/css Wordpress themes
- Support our agents via email and telephone requests, as well as ongoing training
- Manage all aspects of our network of websites including updates, revisions, bug fixes etc.
Requirements for this position:
- Be able to communicate through all levels of our company
- Be able to prioritize and manage your workload and work to strict deadlines
- Have the ability to multitask and manage several web projects at any given time
- Work well in a project oriented environment along side of multiple team members
- Have previous Wordpress experience (at least 1 year) designing and coding Wordpress themes
- Have previous web design experience (at least 2 years)
- Understand all aspects of Wordpress themes (including the basic php functions used to create the pages)
- Understanding of social media and social networking
Additional skills:
- Basic knowledge of SEO and internet marketing, how design can impact it.
- Great communication skills and basic client support experience
- Adobe products including Photoshop and Illustrator
- Ability to work with a small amount of print design requests
If you have additional experience in the following, we strongly encourage you to apply:
- Video edit using Final Cut or Adobe Premier
- Work with stop animation, video production and editing equipment / software
This is a full time position and required to work on site.
This position is currently open, and we would like to interview ASAP.
Please send us your resume and cover letter, including examples of your WordPress experience. Please no phone calls.
WordPress Developer
We are looking for a developer with significant wordpress experience to help get a major plugin development project completed.
You must have WordPress work experience with work examples.
You must have an intimate knowledge of:
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Json
- JQuery
- MySQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- WordPress Codex
- preferred – some experience with google maps api
This project should be about 4 weeks work and there may be potential for a long term position (though this posting is not for a long term employee). You would be working as an additional programmer to our team.
Please submit a resume and any other information to work@pdxhomequest.com
HomeQuest Open House this Friday
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Our new HomeQuest Open House is a monthly event where you can drop in to our office for demonstrations, information, and any questions that you have.
This is for current users of HomeQuest, as well as anyone who is interested in signing up. Come down and learn something new like the Client Watch functions. Or come get some guidance on your website, and learn how to make an online resource for your clients. Your website should be a tool that clients visit over and over again, not just a boring page with a signup map…..
Make the most of your HomeQuest subscription and join us on Friday October 16, 2009 from noon to 4pm at 2211 NW Front St Portland, OR 97209
Adding sub-pages to your site. Expand your site to include unlimited pages and content
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Content is king, and having a lot of original good content will bring you more web traffic and more leads. Show what you know about your city, show what you know about your hobbies by adding pages and sub pages to your site. A great site will tell about you as an agent, you as a person, and what services you will bring to your clients.
Sub pages appear when a visitor hovers their mouse over a link in your navigation bar. A menu will drop down listing each sub-page that you placed underneath that link. For example you could have a “Community Information” page that has several sub-pages underneath it like: Attractions, Economy, Schools, Transit, and anything else you can think of. Each page would have your descriptive information on it providing a great online resource to your potential clients. Not only will your clients be impressed, but having more content filled pages provides enormous SEO benefit.
Step 1. Create all of the pages that you will later organize as sub-pages
Click here to see how to create pages in IDX Blogger.
Step 2. From the “Manage” menu, select “Site Navigation”.
Step 3. Click and drag to move pages. To make a page a sub-page of another, drag it on top of the parent page.
You know you have the sub-page setup corectly when it is indented underneath the parent page. Click here to see more about organizing the pages in your main navigation links bar.
Step 4. Your sub-pages are now setup. To test this, go to your site and hover your mouse over the parent link, and the sub pages will appear.
HomeQuest Open House in 2 weeks!
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Our new HomeQuest Open House is a monthly event where you can drop in to our office for demonstrations, information, and any questions that you have.
This is for current users of HomeQuest, as well as anyone who is interested in signing up. Come down and learn something new like the Client Watch functions. Or come get some guidance on your website, and learn how to make an online resource for your clients. Your website should be a tool that clients visit over and over again, not just a boring page with a signup map…..
Make the most of your HomeQuest subscription and join us on Friday October 16, 2009 from noon to 4pm at 2211 NW Front St Portland, OR 97209
