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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSo, where does your website fit in all this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, your RealtyNinja website has evolved with the times too! Let’s take a few minutes together to look at the progress we’ve made this year, update you on our holiday availability and thank our world-class customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But first, a RealtyNinja tradition, our annual team collage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n View our previous team collages over the years: 2015<\/a>, 2016<\/a>, 2017<\/a>, 2018<\/a>, 2019<\/a>, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will be closed from Dec 24, 2021 to Jan 2, 2022, and will reopen Jan 3, 2022.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n We’ll be monitoring our email inboxes over the holiday break in case of emergencies only. If you have urgent requests or website changes you’d like us to help with before the break please get in touch<\/a> as soon as you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In case you missed it, check out our blog post from June<\/a> that outlined everything we launched in the first half of this year. A few notable items from that post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve kept the momentum going strong. Since June we’ve grown our team, improved our server infrastructure and released more great improvements to our website platform. Here’s a few highlights from the second half of this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carl brings over 8 years of design agency experience to our team. He’s already crushed numerous design projects for our clients and even created a new semi-custom design shortly after joining us. We can’t wait to see more of his creative work in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog got a much-needed facelift! The new design is simpler, with a clear focus on content. We hope you dig the new look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Listing images from your MLS\u00ae, as well as any images you upload to your website (media library, manual listings, buildings, agents, etc.) load even faster now. We optimized the resolution, file size and the way the images are delivered to your browser (via our Fastly<\/a> integration) which is great for usability and SEO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We completely replaced all of the file uploaders in the backend of our websites. The new solution is way easier to use and less prone to error. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Real estate boards in Canada tend to have different rules on what can be displayed on an agents website, how it’s displayed, etc. This year we were allowed to make design improvements to listing photos on DDF\u00ae, Edmonton and Viva sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just like people, all websites need a place to live. When we started our business over 11 years ago, all we needed was a fairly standard dedicated hardware solution for hosting websites. As things grew, and the internet evolved, we saw the need for cloud-based hosting solutions that would be more scalable, robust and secure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the past few years our developers have been slowly upgrading individual components of our hosting infrastructure to stay ahead, and by mid next year we’re going to be fully migrated over to Amazon Web Services. AWS is the most comprehensive, scalable, secure, and innovative solution on the market and we can’t wait to have it all up and running. We’ll have lots more to say about it in the new year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact we can confidently say that this year we launched well over 100 features, bug fixes and improvements across our website platform<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aside from dev updates, we\u2019ve also designed some pretty awesome websites for Canadian agents this year. Check out some of our favourite 2021 designs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find more customized RealtyNinja websites on our site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our entire team was kept busy this year creating and releasing some pretty neat stuff for our customers and all Canadian real estate agents. A few items from this year stand out to us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRealtyNinja have been great to work with. They are very prompt, professional and have made the process of designing my website very easy and enjoyable.\u201d \u2013 Laurie Macfarlane<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n View all of our 50+ Five Star Google Reviews (and leave your own!)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every year we write a big thank you note on our yearly recap post, but it never feels like it captures how truly grateful we are for our customers. By using RealtyNinja as your real estate website provider you’re not just supporting us directly, but you’re supporting our growing families and enabling our livelihoods.. and for that we have so much gratitude<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Salamat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agyamanak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0645\u062a\u0634\u06a9\u0631\u0645<\/p>\n\n\n\n Obrigada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can’t wait to show you what we have in store for 2022! We’re adding all sorts of requested functionality and fresh new designs to keep you ahead of the pack. Keep your eyes on our newsletter and this blog for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From all of us at RealtyNinja, we hope the holidays bring you joy, peace and celebration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reminder: We will be monitoring our inboxes for emergencies over the holidays, but if you need anything done before the break, let us know ASAP so we can fit it in before we go!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check out this years product updates (over 100), company highlights, holiday availability and more!<\/p>\n\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.realtyninja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtyNinja-Collage-2021-optimized.jpg\")
<\/a>RealtyNinja 2021 Holiday Hours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
2021 Year In Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
New Design Ninja Carl<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nNew Support Ninja Veron<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Before joining RealtyNinja, Veron spent years honing her customer service skills at a large US-based website platform company. We’re so excited to have her on our team!<\/p>\n\n\n\nDojo re-design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Optimized MLS\u00ae and user-uploaded images<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBetter file uploaders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNicer listing photo layouts on CREA DDF\u00ae, Edmonton and Viva sites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Improvements to our hosting and security infrastructure (with more to come in 2022)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
And a bunch of other product updates…<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Stand-out Designs <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a>Ninja Moments from 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thank you! We Truly Appreciate You.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nHappy Holidays, Ninjas!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n