Today’s real estate market has a lot of sellers asking real estate professionals “can you sell my home fast?”.  Rosen Properties is a Minnesota real estate service that provides home buying, selling and renting services in the Twin Cities area.

An Improved Website Across The Board
Rosen Properties had been using a real estate website solution for some time that lacked in many areas.  While it did provide Rosen a presence online it didn’t have enough value to bring in new customers.  Five’s web design and Internet marketing skills went to work on:

• Web redesign to improve consumer trust and 1st impression
• Improve navigation and usability
• Improve search engine optimization and ongoing SEO
• Easy to update website powered by the SMC
• Added a blog to improve SEO and communication
• Stronger tools to market homes for sale, rent and rent to own
• Web analytics and goal tracking

The end result is a well rounded web design and web platform that Rosen can continue to build upon.  In this market where people need foreclosure assistance, credit re-building, rent to own options and a faster way to sell a home, Rosen Properties brings a ton of options.

Make sure you check out the new website:  www.RosenProp.com

Five Technology is excited to announce the launch of TheHuntingAuthority.com web project.  This hunting community website combined a great web design interface with a ton of features.

Bringing Social Interaction To The Duck Blind
The guys behind The Hunting Authority came to us with the goal of being the best website an avid hunter and outdoors person could find.  Great design, great content, great features and most of all, a voice for the hunter.

We jumped at the challenge to build user profiles so that visitors to the site could create their own profile and interact with each other.

Here are some of the social features we built into the website:

• Account creation with screen name
• Ability to add/edit a bio
• Ability to designate hunting interests, areas and the ability to search other members with similar interests
• Status area to announce what you’re up to
• Bulletin board to leave comments on other members profiles
• Photo gallery to add your own hunting photos
• Ability to embed YouTube or other 3rd party video players
• Ability to write your own blog articles and comment/respond
• Ability to rate and review guides, outfitters and gear
• Ability to show your favorite web links

We packed a ton of great interaction and community tools into the initial launch of the website and already have more features slated as the website takes off.  We built out all of these features on our content management platform.

Hunting Blog
The site features a hunting blog that already is packed with great hunting info, wild game recipes, dog training tips and more.

Setting up a custom blog design isn’t a big deal for us, but the fact we integrated the profile account creation and log-in with the blog was pretty great.  This made the user profile creation just a single log-in for the site and simplified their ability to comment on blog articles.  It’s nice to have your CMS and WordPress play together so nicely, for everyone’s benefits.

Guides & Gear: Give Your Review
Once registered, the website users have the ability to add, rate and review outfitters, hunting guides and the hunting gear they use to hunt with. Users can search for hunting guides and outfitters by searching states or Canadian provinces and then view detailed information.

Working Footer
Lately we have voiced our thoughts on website footers being important.  On this website we put both first, second and even some deeper levels of links and pages into the footer.  You’ll see more of this as we feel its a great usability feature.

Success In The Crosshairs
As you can see, this web design project was no small creation.  The website has many more features than what we touched on here.  If you are a hunter, we encourage you to check out TheHuntingAuthority.com and create a profile. We enjoyed the challenge of the project and look forward to continuing to build out more great features.

We can vouch that these guys are dedicated to having the best hunting website on the Interweb.  Great content, great features and giving those with the passion and knowledge a voice; that’s what The Hunting Authority is about.

We recently released a website redesign for OutWest, a family-friendly horse ranch, show and horse event organization in Minnesota.

OutWest had been on the Site Management Console web platform for over 5 years, but the growth of their business and interest in new web features brought them to explore a web redesign.  In meeting with OutWest’s owners and staff, we learned the new additions of horses for sale to their offering and their desire to further interact and push event information to their audience.

With the new web design we pushed more of the romantic western feel.  Earth tones, torn edges and leather textures were used to create a warm, inviting and western feel for the interface.

The website project entailed:

• Full interface web redesign
• New features for events, horses for sale
• OutWest Blog & RSS Feed
  
• Email marketing integration
• Enhanced on-page SEO

The client has already let us know their excitement with the site launch.  We think it’s always great to see our long term clients become even longer term.  No matter the need for a new design, new features or additions, the SMC can scale and adapt with them.

We’re looking forward to the great things OutWest will do with the new website.  Check it out at OutwestArena.com and give it a big “Yee-Haw!” for yourself.

Five launched a new web design project this past week for the Minnesota and Wisconsin law firm Hansen, Dordell, Bradt, Odlaug & Bradt, PLLP.

HDBOB.com now has a new interface design, content management platform, enhanced attorney profiles and a search engine friendly website.

HDBOB’s past website was focused on the firm’s strong history, but didn’t offer a clear view to their current capabilities and offering. The old site also had some technical obstacles for search engines like Google and Yahoo to correctly index and understand their content.

Web Design Project Features:

• Custom, progressive web design
• Content areas to push more firm services & news
• Clear & clean navigation/sub-navigation
• Easy to update content with our SMC solution
• Enhanced attorney profiles with pictures, contact info, bios and links (Example below)
• On-page search engine optimization & analytics
  

The final website project result is something both Five and HDBOB is proud of. If we’re charged with “reckless creativity”, so be it. We figure the HDBOB law practice areas can cover getting us out of trouble.

Check out another great site from Five! http://www.hdbob.com

Our latest website redesign brought a new design, stronger platform and business blogging to Iron River Construction out of Waconia, Minnesota.  Iron River is an exterior, remodeling and storm repair contractor servicing the Twin Cites, MN and greater area.

Iron River realized their past web design wasn’t cutting it.  It lacked in many areas so Five outlined a web redesign project to give them easy navigation, a clean design, enhanced content, an online quote request form and more.  The new site is well organized, search engine friendly and built on the SMC for easy management and content updates.

Iron River also realizes the benefits of business blogging and will be putting out great blog posts on their company, industry information, products, construction materials and more.  What a great way to build trust and interact with potential and current customers of your construction services. Make sure you check out the Iron River Construction blog.

Five had a great time remodeling this website and the owners and staff at Iron River were great to work with. Check out the new website and keep them in mind for your siding, roofing, window or construction needs!