Blog
We continuously refine and add new features to our websites. See our blog posts below.
Updated Agent & Team Pages
We have updated your agent page with a new look and features, making it also work as a digital business card.
The page has a modern look with bigger agent images and the agent's properties are now displayed on the page.
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| Desktop view. |
It also looks great on mobile devices.
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| Mobile view. |
- QR Code
- Copying the page link (agents can add it to their email signature to share their details and properties)
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| Sharing options for the agent page. |
New Premium Theme
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| Contemporary theme. |
- There is a parallax scrolling effect on the main image, which we think is pretty cool. To see this, go to the demo website and scroll down.
- The featured properties and testimonials are displayed as a slider / carousel so you can have as many of each as you want.
- The bond calculators, property alerts sign up and news/testimonials are displayed and linked from the front page.
New Calculators
We have added two new calculators to the calculator page on our premium sites. We now have an Affordability Calculator and a Bond and Transfer Calculator. These are in addition to our two existing bond calculators.
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| New calculators. |
The Affordability Calculator gives you a rough indication of the bond amount you possibly qualify for, and the Bond and Transfer Calculator calculates all the costs associated with registering a bond and transferring a property.
We are sure these additions will be of great value to visitors to your website.
If you have a premium site which does not have a calculator page and would like it added to your website, please contact support@webbox.co.za and we will add it for you at no extra charge.
New Lite Site template
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| Enhanced Lite template. |
- a solid top header section
- a property search bar on the main image
- larger menu icons
- a more prominent property alert sign up
Search by reference number
Visitors to your website can now use your website reference numbers in the search bar to find a property. See below.
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| Search by reference number in the search bar. |
Updates to Lite Sites
We are always working hard to ensure we provide our clients with the best websites. To this end, we have recently upgraded our Lite Site template to include the following:
- An About Us Page (to enable please send us the text and a picture if you have one).
- An Our Team Page showing your agents (it will appear automatically if you have added agents via your admin console).
- A map on the Contact Page (we have set this up if your address was presented on the Contact Page).
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| New Lite Site About Us Page. |
POPIA Privacy Policy
We have updated your website with a POPIA Privacy Policy, which shows as a link in the footer. This was written by legal consultants, TVDM Consultants, who have been providing POPIA services to the property industry.
You have the option to override this Privacy Policy by sending us your own version. If you have already provided one, it will be kept as is.
There will be a further POPIA related post in the next couple of days. And in case you missed it, see our previous post about POPIA and Property Alerts/Newsletters.
If you have any questions please contact us.
COVID-19 link moved
We have moved the Government Gazette mandated COVID-19 link from the top to the bottom of all our clients’ websites. It looks a lot better there, while remaining fully compliant with the regulations.
We hope you like the change.
Please stay safe. Stay healthy. Be patient and kind.
COVID-19 link on all websites
The Government Gazette mandated that all websites ending in .co.za must have a link to www.sacoronavirus.co.za. This is to facilitate the easy spread and access to all information with regards to this pandemic. We have enabled it on your website from today, so your website is fully compliant with these regulations.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us.
Please stay safe. Stay healthy. Be patient and kind.
The WEB-BOX Team
WhatsApp Agents From Your Website
Don’t you find it much easier to WhatsApp someone instead of calling or emailing? With 300 million users worldwide, WhatsApp is the most ubiquitous messaging service around. Since we want to make it as easy as possible for buyers to contact you, they can now WhatsApp your agents directly from the property page of your website.
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| WhatsApp agent from website property page. |
This is now enabled for all our websites. As these messages can’t be logged in your admin consoles monitoring tab (as the texting happens in WhatsApp), we understand if you would like us to disable this for you - just let us know.
We hope this works for you, and you get lots of WhatsApp leads from your website.
Please contact us if you have any feedback or questions.
Logo Design Services
Your logo is critical to the look of your website, which is why the importance of a good logo can’t be understated - it is what distinguishes you from your competitors and establishes trust. A professionally designed logo shows you are a professional estate agent.
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| Why you need to stand out from your competitors. |
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| Logo evolution of well known brands. |
New Document Management System
Exciting news! You can now upload documents to your admin console to share with your team - no more storing documents in places nobody can find. This will save you hours of hunting around for the documents you regularly use in your business.
This feature also allows you to make documents public on the frontend of your website so your clients can download documents like rental agreements and tenant application forms. It's quick and easy to manage.
To access this feature, login to your admin console and select “Documents”:
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| Manage documents from admin console. |
When uploading a document, you can choose to make it public on your website as a download, or keep it private for internal use only.
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| To make documents visible or not on your website. |
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| Documents on your website. |
To enable the “public” document function please contact us.
We would love your feedback about this new feature. (Please note this is only available for Standard and Responsive websites).
Match Your Banner To Your Corporate Colours
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| Updated banner on property listing page |
Update Your Website
Everything needs a change so whether it is adding new pages to your website, updating your team’s pictures, upgrading, or wanting a full redesign, we can do it for you.
Want a colour scheme update, have new branding you're proud of, or just want professional advice on how to make your website really stand out and work for you? Please contact us - we would love to help you.
One of the best ways to make your website more current is to make it responsive. Responsive websites work on every device and every screen size, no matter how large or small. This is especially pertinent since more and more people start their searches from their mobile devices.
Our existing clients receive a discount on the set-up when upgrading to a responsive website - you pay only R3 000 plus VAT as opposed to the R5 500 everyone else would pay. If you already have a mobile website the monthly responsive cost will only be an additional R100, else it will be an additional R220. (With a responsive website there is no need for a mobile website.)
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| View mynextproperty.co.za on a phone and computer to see how our responsive websites adjust. |
Please contact us to chat about all your options!
Responsive websites - that work well on all devices
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| Take a look at www.midteam.co.za on your phone, tablet, laptop etc to see their responsive website in action |
Your buyers and sellers are on the move - literally, which means that they are looking at your website on every type of electronic device available (desktop, tablet, mobile, etc). Currently the best way to make your website look good and work well on all the options is a “responsive” website design.
Responsive website design is the practice of building a website suitable to work on every device and every screen size, no matter how large or small, mobile or desktop. It involves programming the website to resize, hide, shrink, enlarge, or move the content to make it look good on any screen. Responsive web design is focused around providing an intuitive and gratifying experience for everyone.
We’re proud to let you know that web-box now offer a responsive website design package that will allow your website to be a viewing pleasure no matter the client device.
If you’ve got beautiful property pictures and you want to maximise their selling power then this is definitely the upgrade for you. Pictures say more than 1000 words and everyone loves seeing lovely homes fill their screen. Even if you are just wanting your website to stand out from the crowd this is worth looking at. To see more of our responsive designs look through our portfolio.
In line with our focus on optimal value the cost is only R3000 + VAT setup (once-off fee) and R895 + VAT per month. The setup fee is discounted down from R5000, for you our existing clients.
We look forward to hearing your feedback and of course if you would like to upgrade to a responsive website just let us know!