Top Notch Realty Team Website Needed!

Please read entire design brief. Lots of important information in there.

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Desired Color Scheme:
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Desired Style:
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Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); Need PSDs and Coded HTML/CSS/Images

Company Details

What is the name of your company?
Top Notch Realty Team

Do you have a company tagline or slogan?
Providing top-notch professional service in all of your real estate needs.

Do you have a company logo?
Yes, please download additional files at: http://www.keylimetie.com/Common/Do…hFiles.zip (4.59 MB)

What is the nature of your business?
Briefly describe your products or services. We are licensed Realtors providing quality professional services in residential real estate including but not limited to working with buyers looking to buy a property; sellers who want to sell their properties for top value ; tenants looking to lease rental properties; property owners interested in leasing their properties through our company by providing a wide array of property management services; assisting buyers who are interested in new construction or custom-build homes; helping investors find distressed properties, foreclosure properties, short-sale properties and/or properties under fair market value to increase their net worth; Providing customers with up-to-date information regarding Special Communities: Active Adults, Assisted Living, Accessibility ready; and recruiting Realtors and Brokers to join Keller Williams franchises under our sponsorship.

Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?
Based on KW studies Internet buyers, those that make real estate business via internet are in average 35 years of age, and constitute at least 85% of the website traffic; while sellers in average are older age range and constitute only 15% of the internet business. Therefore, we want our website to be as visual as possible, including a wealth of resources and tools targeting buyers. Nonetheless, we want our website to include a wealth of information and resources so that we may capture all real estate-relates leads whether they be buyers, sellers, investors, recruits, new construction, custom build homes, etc. We would also like to expand our resources for sellers more than the typical competition.

Website Details

Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL?
http://nardita.yourkwagent.com/

IMPORTANT: Please list at least 3 URLs of high quality websites that you like the look of (these do not have to be sites whose business is similar to yours. It aids us in determining what your design style is.) Please consider layout, colors, navigation, graphics, and typography.
http://www.amazon.com/ – home page layout – wide screen
http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/sitemap - clear easy to read site map
http://www.janacaudill.com/ - like the navigation bar on top and layout
http://www.goodlifeteam.com/default.asp - like the layout
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/reales…index.html - combination of different types of graphics, typography, layout

What colors or color schemes would you like?
White background/not sure re color scheme…the logo should help dictate colors…but not all blue please.

Please list the top level navigation links for your website.
Property Search engine, Buyers Resources, Sellers Resources, Free Home Valuation, Site Map

What type of look are you trying to achieve? (i.e. clean, high-tech, conservative, warm, etc.)
High Tech, urban look, clean and easy to read and to navigate

Please provide the URLs of competitors' sites.
http://www.dreamtown.com/
http://www.illinoisrealestate.com/
http://patvallejo.mostreferred.com/

Do you have any images for use in the design of your site? If not, can you offer suggestions of what you type of imagery you feel would be most suitable for your website?
Pictures of team & team members available (see previous downloadable files)
Many images available from Kw.com website kits

If so, will you require it to be ONLY CSS layout?
No, tables are preferred for us.

How many pages coded will you require delivered by the winner?
4 page total: Home page, Property Search, Seller Resources, and Site Map

Are there any other comments/specific ideas we should keep in mind while designing your project?
1. Refer to previous downloadable files
2. Please design for 1024 x 768 resolution.
3. The design will be dropped into a Content Management System that allows us to drop in a header area, left area, center area, right area and footer area. So please be sure the design and HTML is broken up accordingly. We can discuss this in more detail with the winner if necessary. It should not an issue and is easy to explain.