First Look: www.michaelzrealtor.com design by Reflection Technologies

Reflection Technologies is a partnership of programing and graphics design professionals. Part of what we do is develop websites and custom business applications for small and medium sized businesses. Our current project is for a real estate agent in The Woodlands, Texas named Michael Zabrycki. Michael has asked us to help him bring the look and feel of his brand's printed material to the web as well as bring it into the 21st century.

We started with a web page that was just a gigantic jpeg image with his picture and phone number. This is not good for search engines since they can not read pictures. We put together a temporary site and published it. You can check it out here. We also added a backlink from a few our company homepage.

The next step was to make it pretty. Jared and I are not graphics designers so we went to Dylan for some help. After a meeting at tommy bahamas and an emergency flyer reproduction effort Dylan was able to come up with this design:


I'm going to be chopping and building this into xhtml / css this weekend. If anyone has any suggestions or comments on the design let me know. I think D-Funk did an awesome job on it. The only thing I think we'll change is the Remax logo, it needs to be an official Remax Platinum logo I think..

The next phase of the project is to build a CakePHP template for the site and implement a custom copy of the new version of HomeGoat, our real estate listing platform. More on that later though ;)