RSSFeatured Homes Using NextGen Gallery
By Ryan Ward | August 5, 2008
I’ve started using NextGen to feature all of our Atlanta Homes for sale with small slideshows on our homepage in “feature boxes”. The link opens a new window to each homes single property website. Here’s a screenshot:
These are different than most because the photos you see are actually slideshow. I think it brings a little more life to the page and helps to get consumers to notice them and click them a bit more frequesntly.
The process to create them is quite simple if you are familiar with NextGen. Simply create a gallery of images and insert it into a draft post. Preview that post and view the source code. Take the source code and copy it into a design that you can create using on page divs. These are created using 3 seperate “featured Atlanta homes” divs with tables to hold the information. The code for one of the featured listings boxes looks like this:
<div id="featured-slide"> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" width="145" align="left"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div id="ngg_slideshow21" class="slideshow">The <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Flash Player</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">a browser with Javascript support</a> are needed..</div> <script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Featured Home</span></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <ul><strong>Price: </strong>$650,000</ul> <ul><strong>Beds: </strong>4</ul> <ul><strong>Baths:</strong> 3 full, 2 half</ul> <a href="http://www.sandyspringsopenhouses.com" target="blank">View Details</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div>
That’s it…
Category: Marketing | 1 Comment »
August 20th, 2008 at 2:20 am
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