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Hey all,

I am new here, and have recently found all this after diving into a Brokerage website project. I am a web designer, but I am also in real estate. My wife is an agent and I also do handyman work fixing up properties. Enough about me. On to my questions:

What is going on with all these projects? EZProrealty website is a disaster, and I hope I am not offending anyone. The whole frontpage is just a big image. Few links work, the download links leads to a fairly sketchy placeholder page that pissed of my spysweeper.

The Brokers Edge site is also pretty messed up, but not as bad. The main menu javascipt dropdowns are broken, none of the links work. I managed to find the contact info at the footer, in a roud-about way. I called today but I guess Mick was busy. Left a message and he didn't call back. I hope I can talk soo because I cant make any sense of the website.

I hear all the buzz about WP, it is very nice and I use it for blogs. The main reason I dont often use it for websites is the templates. I go in for the fancy stuff, I like to work with all the wonderful templates that are available for Joomla, i just wish some things like that were available for WP.

In all my days of searching and reading I have not really grasped ecatly how this integration of CMS's and Open realty is done. I have it running in a wrapper, and i can make Joomla menu links that go to different pages of the OR script. Is integration simply a matter of having a single login?

Sorry for all the questions at once, but I am really trying to figure out which of these projects is alive, dead, or soon to be active. EZProRealty seems dead. The site doesnt impress and I cant get to a download. I am about to go down the Open realty road.

What exatly is UltimateIDX? the Brokers Edge site didnt quite clear it up for me. As i understand it, IDX (internet data exchange) is for porting MLS listings to other platfroms. For some reason, the marketing for UltimateIDX moslty talks about lead management and agent assigning of leads, etc. This is not what I think IDX is. However, that being said, I am very interested in that and was thinking of using something else like SugarCRM for that aspect. If UltimateIDX can solve my needs then I want on board!

I really hope I have not offended anyone. I just really need help finding tools and you folks seem to have the best grasp of the subject.

-David