Our custom theme of the week comes to us from Olga Katon at Park Place Real Estate Services in Chicago. This is one of my favorite branded themes I’ve come across for a few reasons. First, I love the look of the branding: urban, edgy, and sophisticated but also fun at the same time. Second, I like how well Olga utilizes the space of the header; she includes not only the company name and logo but also the office address, phone number, and email address. Third, all the colors in the theme work really well together.

I should note that this is the third Chicago-area company that we’ve highlighted in our Custom Theme of the Week series (the other two being Caliendo Automotive and Vranas Properties). Chicago must be a very design-oriented city! We’ll have to see if other cities (New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston…) can compete with Chicago in its output of great custom themes.

As always, we’ll be back next Friday with another custom theme of the week, so if you’ve created or seen a custom theme and think it should be spotlighted, let us know by emailing support@vflyer.com.

Today, vFlyer implemented a new feature of the Flyers page: the ability to add a label to each Flyer in your account. A label is simply a tag for a Flyer that is visible only to you (in other words, it doesn’t affect the Flyers themeselves). It means that, instead of having to remember which title corresponds with which listing, you can assign a unique identifier to each Flyer that only shows on the Flyers page in your account, making it easier to access a specific listing. For instance, if you are a leasing manager, it might be tough to remember which of your Flyers has the title, “Out of this world savings await you at the Casa Grande!” But you could label this Flyer “Casa Grande Apt 100E“, a much more easily recallable name.

To add a label to a Flyer, on your Flyers page, click the pencil icon next to the Flyer you want to label, then type a label in the field provided and click outside the field. You can always change a label after you’ve added it as well. This feature was requested by several vFlyer members and most recently by Charity Hisle of Benson Media. Thanks and keep the suggestions coming.

Happy Friday! Our custom theme of the week comes from Astrid Zelaya, Consultant at Rent-One. This is such a well-composed theme where each aspect – the header image, background image, theme colors, and the other design elements – works beautifully with all the others. Also, Astrid takes advantage of our Showcase layout for Craigslist (see picture below), one of 10 Craigslist layouts available to business subscribers when they use a custom theme (and my personal favorite).

This Flyer is also a good example of a commercial real estate ad created through the vFlyer application. vFlyer now offers templates for office, industrial, and retail space, commercial land, shopping centers, and multi-unit buildings. The combination of vFlyer’s branding capabilities and these new categories is great news for all you commercial brokers out there.

Fantastic custom theme, Astrid! Keep up the good work!

If you have a vFlyer account and you haven’t yet created a custom theme, give it a try this weekend. You can create a custom theme in literally 5 minutes, and it will give you access to features of the vFlyer service that you couldn’t access before. Here’s a video to get you started.

We’ll be back next Friday with another Custom Theme of the Week, so if you’ve created or seen a custom theme and think it should be spotlighted, let us know by emailing support@vflyer.com.

After a brief hiatus, we’re back again with another Custom Theme of the Week. This week’s custom theme is from Cauley Chevrolet in West Bloomfield, Michigan. The header image is very clean and well-proportioned, and manages to fit the dealership logo, several car images, and a photo of the dealership without looking crowded or cluttered. It makes the theme look like it was built by a professional web designer! I also like the way they branded the main photo of the Flyer shown below – yet another way of getting your brand out there! Nice work, Cauley.

If you haven’t yet created a custom theme, take a look at this series of short video tutorials on our website to get started. And if you would like a custom branded theme of your own but don’t have the tools or the time to create one, contact support@vflyer.com. We may be able to assist you in building a custom theme.

We’ll be back next Friday with another Custom Theme of the Week, so if you’ve created or seen a custom theme and think it should be spotlighted, drop us a line at support@vflyer.com.