Definition of Services
This is a definition of Blue Fire Group's website services as specified in our Terms and Conditions.
POWER and PREMIUM sites both come with a full deployment of a WORD PRESS Blogsite.
My Buying Buddy and the LeadsAndContacts system are optional services that can be intgrated.
For details of each My Buying Buddy service click here.
My Buying Buddy is a sophisticated self-service tool for consumers. It is a powerful lead generation mechanism for Realtors
The LeadsAndContacts system is a highly advanced lead management and CRM system for Realtors which integrates the MLS data, with your lead data and provides full automated drip campaigns, automated email alerts, CRM functions and much more.
POWER Site Definition | PREMIUM SIte Definition | WebAdmin Definition | Content Maintenance | Payment Schedules
POWER site
Design
When you choose a theme you are agreeing to the color scheme and layout of that theme.
Generic graphics or ICONS in the FLASH (moving bit) of the design cannot be changed, however the specific images can be changed. For example if the header or FLASH is a icon of a house, then this cannot be changed. If it is a picture of a style of house or mountains for example, then we would change this as this may not represent your market.
Content
Every POWER site comes with the following standard pages and content:
- Full Wordpress powered Blogging system
- Standard THEME Design (pick from our gallery)
- Home page (text can be changed)
- How To Buy section - multiple pages of content and details explaining how to buy a home
- Sell Your Home - multiple pages of content and details explaining how to buy a home
- Mortgage Calculator in both mortgage section and as part of any Property details display
- Neighborhood / Area Links page - we need you to supply links
- About page - you supply text and content for this page
- Contact form
We require the following information from you:
- Details of any IDX service to be integrated
- Your site URL (domain name, which you need to purchase)
- Your Contact Information and Company name
- Your BIO or any text you want to have the 'About me' page
- Your Slogan or Motto
- Your images - Logo, picture of you and any other images you want to have in the site.
- Welcoming text for the home page
- Any specific Links you want for the Neighborhood Links / Local Area Links page
Changing the images in the Header
We will change the images in the headers to reflect your market and focus. You must supply these images to us.
Customization Options
The following are all examples of Customization Options for which we will charge an hourly rate.
- Looking for and Identifying new graphics and images for any part of your site
- Replacing the entire graphical header of your website (not just replacing images in the header)
- Changing Color Schemes
- Adding or changing main menu items
- Replacing sections (ie replacing HOW TO BUY with a totally different page)
- Adding new pages
- Laying out or designing pages differently
- Creation of additional or specialized or custom graphics
Hosting and Email Accounts
Each POWER site offers up to 5 Forwarding email addresses. If you want POP accounts then these can be created for an additional monthly fee. A POP account allows for WEBMAIL and POP access. 10MB is allocated to each account.
We recommend that if you need a POP account, that you purchase a specialist email hosting account from a third party.
You are required to use your own SMTP server for outgoing mail.
Additional Hosting services include:
- Hosting of your web site
- On-going technical maintenance/support and error resolution
- Access to and use of the WORDPRESS ADMIN tool to allow clients to update their own page contents.
PREMIUM site
Design
We will create a custom designed site according to your specifications.
You will need to provide us with a starting point of what you are looking for, what you like and what you dislike.
Our design process will provide you with an initial design concept and from this we will iterate designs until we are meeting your needs. You must be prepared to provide us with constructive feedback so that we can make this process work for you. Typically this process takes 4-6 weeks.
Content
We will create a menu system and web site structure to meet your needs based upon our standard menu and content structure. We will work with you to identify the pages and content that is required for your site in addition to the standard content we will provide coming from My Buying Buddy and our standard boiler plate.
if you choose My Buying Buddy service as an extra, this can be the AGENTpack or TEAMpack service.
Our service includes a extra content pages - a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 45 distinct web pages in your site - where we define a page as a 1000 pixels high web page. Typically this easily meets most clients needs.
You must provide additional content to us as we are not knowledgeable in your market. However, every PREMIUM site comes with the option of including the standard boiler plate content from POWER sites.
We require the following information from you:
- Your site URL (domain name, which you need to purchase)
- All the content (text, images, logos, graphics, links) you want us to include in your site
Exceptions
Please note that the creation of any FLASH or animations, as well as the creation of specialized/custom graphics as content in your site is not included in our standard service. We will be happy to provide you with a quote for additional work like this.
Hosting and Email Accounts
Each PREMIUM site offers up to 10 Forwarding email addresses and 5 POP accounts. If you want additional POP accounts then these can be created for an additional monthly fee. A POP account allows for WEBMAIL and POP access. 10MB is allocated to each account.
We recommend that if you need a POP account, that you purchase a specialist email hosting account from a third party.
You are required to use your own SMTP server for outgoing mail.
Additional Hosting services include:
- Hosting of your web site
- On-going technical maintenance/support and error resolution
- Access to and use of the site ADMIN tool to allow clients to update their own page contents.
Content Maintenance
If this service is ordered, we will provide Content Maintenance for your site. This gives you up to 1 hour of content maintenance per month for the agreed monthly fee. Services do not accumulate if not used.
Content Maintenance services will allow you to pick up the phone whenever you like and get our assistance in making changes or revisions to your site.
ADMIN Site Management Tool
The WORDPRESS Admin tool is a secure web administration area which provides the following functions:
- Ability to ADD blog posts
- Ability to EDIT and CHANGE text and images on web pages in your website, where these pages have been enabled.
- An ability to recover from mistakes by reverting Web Pages to a previous version
- Ability to Edit and Change TITLE, META KEYWORDS and META DESCRITPTION tags for each page where these pages have been enabled
- Ability to review Web Site Statistics which will show you details of traffic on your web site
- Ability to manage your email forwarding accounts
Limitations: The Admin tool will give you full editing capability of page sections that are enabled. However, we do not recommend using
- Managing page layout and design
- Layout of multiple graphics and images unless you have a little knowledge of HTML
PLEASE NOTE: Blue Fire Group will charge hourly rates to fix problems
caused by code and content changes made by the Client.
This specifically applies to changes made by the Client using products
like Microsoft FRONTPAGE.
Payment Schedules
POWER SITES: Full payment is due immediately.
PREMIUM SITES: A deposit will be due immediately. Payment by installments may be agreed for the balance.
