How to Create a Guide Page

How to Create a Guide Page

Creating a guide page is a little more intensive of a task.  But, with a little effort, even a novice can add a guide page.  Before getting started, it is important to understand the anatomy of a guide page.  A guide page typically consists of 3 things as shown and outlined below:

1) A text area that talks about the area.  This may or may not include an image
2) Related searches.  These are pull in automatically from the MLS.  You can title the section whatever you want and then just choose the cities or neighborhoods you want to appear
3) Tabs.  Typically, we create 3 tabs.  One that pulls in "featured" listings by city (we usually call the tab, "Listings"), another that pulls in school and walkability data (called, "Local") and a third that pulls in market data (called, "Market").  
Featured Listings: The featured listings are pulled in from the MLS data.  However, you have to create a search filter so that it knows what too look for.
Local: This data pulls in from a third party.  All you'll need to do is specify the city and the data will pull in.  Note: If the city is a small city, it may not pull in data.  In which case, you'll need to use a larger city.
Market: This again pulls in from a third party.  You can specify which of the graphs show up.  But, we recommend you leave it with all 4 graphs.  The data that pulls in depends on the city.   So, if no data pulls in, you'll need to choose a larger city.

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