Thoughts about what I would add to BPearson's SC home's website design

Morning Everyone - Happy Friday

I didn't want to hijack another thread. But Bill keeps bringing up the idea of a website that features the type of homes in SC.

What would be really cool - have you been to Gettysburg and attended the presentation where you sit and peer down onto a map and the presenter lights up sections of the map as the events of the battle unfold? - that type of map, an online version obviously, would be cool. It could either start out blank and the different model houses appear as a timeline of the building of sun city unfolds, or it could be a map of the current status of SC, with the names of the model homes on the side. You click on the model home you are interested in and they all light up.

Now THAT would be cool.

Thoughts (on the idea of the map, not my poor sentence structure :joyous: )

 

Sounds fun but you'll need some bucks to put together a website like that, including a webmaster willing to keep up with it.

 

Great minds think alike J_ though your's must be greater...I didn't think about using light-ups or earmarking homes locations. The Sun City Visitor Center has a map on the wall of Sun City. It does have push lights for Rec Centers, golf courses, churches and I think shopping centers. People like it because it gives you a good visual of the community.

I remember all to well feeling like most in the beginning; "I'll never figure this community out." The circular streets are confusing enough, but take a street like Boswell that snakes through the community with little rhyme or reason, or worse yet Thunderbird that crosses Del Webb Blvd twice in less than a mile and it's easy to see why visitors get that deer in the headlights look.

One of my thoughts was to put up a map of the 7 mile long and 3 mile wide community and break it into home styles and initial model locations (grand openings along with a listing of the models in that series). I hadn't paid much attention till late and now I see how easy that would be to do (I hate saying something is easy when it comes to websites, but from a practical point, it's just mapping). Home styles (single family, attached etc.) are clustered and if we had a way for potential buyers to get a better feel of location, models and the year they were built, it would become less of a chore.

That said, I would never want to take away the fun of the hunt. I know for those of you looking, especially from afar, that may sound silly. But I remember all too well flying into town and looking at 20 homes over a weekend. It was exciting and exhausting, but I loved it. Maybe I'm just a sickie, but the chance to began that "next phase" of our lives was part of the joy of moving here.

Obviously I love writing and have no problem doing the legwork a site like that would take. I'm no techie, and that's where I struggle. Even posting some of the stuff I do is just half-assed and a battle for me. And I'm not looking for a job... or as Maynard G. Crebs used to say: "work." I'd do it as a labor of love. Funny thing is this is the kind of project an aggressive Realtor should be taking on, or K Hovnanian or even TOSC should be looking at to increase or enhance their client or user base.

If no one steps up, I may just undertake the project myself. I've left the museum and I have nothing but time on my hands. Heck, I get tingly all over just thinking about the possibilities.

 

Hey BP -
Because I would rather being doing anything else today but working, I did a little digging.

A no fuss, no muss, no expense solution would be to use Google Maps (ok, not all the lights and stuff, but mapping the community calling out the different style of homes etc).

I'll keep digging.