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Update Horizon template (KYSelectProperties.com) to new Pro Site for Remax-Mammoth.com #170

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Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

For our next Pro Site, we will be converting an existing design (http://www.kyselectproperties.com) to a new Pro Site for http://www.remax-mammoth.com.

I've set up a new website here:

Which is accessible via FTP at:

67.199.110.220 remax-mammoth_dev

using the normal password. Once you FTP into the site, you'll see that I have already copied over the site files from the KYSelectProperties.com version of the site. If you go to the default page for this site:

You'll see that there are still some formatting issues in the HTML / CSS of this and the other site pages. Arthur (new programmer) has FTP access to this site and is curently working on fixing those (should be done by tomorrow or Friday).

In the meantime, can you get started updating the constants_client.asp and constants_client_specific.asp files for this site, and then also create the default pages (Home, Contact, About RE/MAX of Mammoth, Meet Our Team, About Mammoth, Careers, Privacy Policy) and a blog with default blog post?

We don't need a "Community Info" page for this site.

For the neighborhood / community pages, the site will have the following sections:

  • Mammoth Lakes Subdivisions (/mammoth-homes/)
  • Mammoth Lakes Condos (/mammoth-condos/)
  • Mammoth Lakes Project Areas (/mammoth-lakes-real-estate/)
  • Mono County Communities (/)
  • Inyo County Communities (/)

Then, for the Condos and Subdivisions sections, the client has prepared a content template for each type (attached). In this document, there are two templates -- one for the Subdivisions pages, and one for the Condos pages. Upon reviewing this document, I believe you'll be able to make sense of what the client is looking for, and it requires a bit more flexibility than our current tools allow for. Do you think there would be a way to automate this type of content creation? If so, it would be good to somehow build that added flexibility into our system for future use in situations such as this.

In creating the condos and subdivisions pages, please use the attached spreadsheet (also prepared by client) as a point of reference. The subdivisions will be those listed in the "Mammoth Lakes Subdivisions" column, and the condos will be those listed in the "Mammoth Condo Complexes" column. I believe the Saved Searches for all of these should already be created. Any Saved Searches which are not already created can be dis-regarded for the time being, because I don't believe there are active MLS listings for those areas at the moment.

Last, one issue for this site is that this site is an upgrade for an existing customer who is currently using IDX Search Tools only. The URL of their search tools is: http://mammothmls.sierrainteractivemls.com/

One problem we may encounter in developing this site is that the Site Domain for the existing site is different from what it will be for the new site. I'm not sure what the best way would be to get around this, other than to hard code a temporary change into the /res/includes/session_mgr.asp file that would recognize the remax-mammoth.sierrainteractivedev.com domain and automatically change it to mammothmls.sierrainteractivemls.com before passing it into the Session functions. (Basically, a hack to get it to work until the site goes live.)

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

The site is looking great, thank you.

As final steps for this site, can you please add:

As with the MammothRealty.com site map, please make the /site-map/ page on this site include all available pages on the site. I don't see a good place to link these sitemaps in the footer, so, for now, please leave them un-linked, and I will look into this tomorrow.

Also, in checking the PanamaCityHomesOnline.com site, I noticed that the /site-map/ page does not seem to be available there (broken link). When I click on the Site Map link (http://www.panamacityhomesonline.com/site-map/) the site seems to hang, and the page takes a very long time to load. Can you look into that when you have a chance?

Thanks.

Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have updated the site-map page to display Featured Searches by content labels. I have also applied the "Mammoth Lakes Featured Searches" label to saved-searched on the "What Are You Looking For?" box. So, these saved (like Luxury Homes, Mammoth Crash Pads etc) would be displayed under the "Mammoth Featured Searches" label on the site-map and community pages.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

One more thing on the remax-mammoth.com site -- can you also please remove the drop-down menu below Featured Listings? We don't need a drop-down menu under that navigation item.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have added community sections and content pages per your suggestions. I have also updated the constants_client.asp and constants_client_specific.asp files for this site.

I am now working on creating community pages for the saved-searches and looking into further automating this process. I will update you more on this tomorrow.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Great, thank you. I heard back from Arthur this morning that he was able to finish customizing the site HTML / CSS to the updated RE/MAX Mammoth design. I will work today on some further necessary changes to the site, and will update you on my progress by the end of my day today.

Thanks for your help with this. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have added the site-map, site-map XML and Property Listings site-map pages in the Remax-mammoth.com site. Please check the same.

Regarding the PanamaCityHomesOnline.com site-map page, the rewrite rules for the site-map and site-map XML were commented so these two pages were not available. I have fixed the same.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Launched live site on DEDN173 Inetpub-LIVE (via Cloudflare) Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

Regarding Subdivisions pages I am not sure which subdivision belongs to which project/neighborhood area. Could you please guide me how find project/neighborhood area of a subdivision?

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

The changes look good, thank you. Can you just make one small adjustment to the new property listing detail page for this site? Currently, there is quite a bit more padding on the left side of the page than the right side (between the contents of the page and the border of the page). Can you try to even that out, so that it's equal on both sides?

Also, for this site, can you create a new section on this site called "Mammoth Sales Data" with the section filename "/mammoth-sales-data/" ? Within that, then please create three new pages:

And can you then import the content for these pages from the existing site, here:

The formatting is not great on the existing pages, so please just do the best you can in importing them. The Page Titles of the pages should just be "Homes," "Condos," and "Lots"

The H1 tag of each page should be "Mammoth Homes Sales Data 2000-2011," "Mammoth Lots Sales Data 2000-2011," etc. Then, below the H1 tag and the data, please add a Content Label Widget containing links to all three of these pages, so that people can easily navigate between them.

Once that's done, if you could add a "Mammoth Sales Data" menu item as the bottom item in the drop-down menu under "Mammoth Communities," and linking to the "Homes" page, that would be great.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have made changes in the site per comment-3. I have also updated footer links and added/updated styles for the SIST and blog pages.

I have created community pages for about 50 condos saved-searches. I will add community pages for other condo and subdivision saved-searches tomorrow.

Could you please let me know if I should create community pages for the Mammoth Lakes Project Areas, Mono County Communities and Inyo County Communities sections?

Also, I believe on the community page of this site we would display Featured Searches for the Mammoth Lakes, Crowley Lake, June Lake, North Mono County and South Mono County as we are doing in the MammothRealty.com?

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Then, the client has one more change request for the remax-mammoth.com site. The would like the options in the home page browse communities box to be changed as follows. Can you create pages for the items listed in the attached, and then use them to populate the home page browse communities box? The title of the home page browse communities box should be changed to, "What Are You Looking For?" instead of "Mammoth Condos and Communities" but the "View All" link should remain.

With the page titles indicated, you may have trouble getting three columns of links without some of them wrapping to second lines. If that's the case, please remove "Lakes" from some of the titles -- i.e. "Mammoth Foreclosures" instead of "Mammoth Lakes Foreclosures," etc. Also, just use "Longest on Market" for that page and leave off the "DOM."

Some of these pages are referenced in the attached "URL Structure" spreadsheet -- please use the URLs indicated in creating these new pages (although ignore the "/property-search/list" portion of these URLs, as that is not correct.)

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Great, thanks for fixing this. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have adjusted the padding on the left side of the new details page for this site and added Mammoth Sales Data sections and pages. I have added styling for these pages in the global.css of the front-end site and in the content manager stylesheet.

Please check these pages and let me know your feedback.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have made changes in the per comment-18 and 19. Please check the same and let me know your feedback.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Good question -- in the Excel workbook, there are several additional sheets, each is labeled with the name of a project area, and contains the condo developments and subdivisions which are to be included in that project area (also applies to Ski In / Ski Out and Golf Course).

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have made changes in the site per comment-43. Please note the followings:

1-- Now that we have updated the Home community box to link to previously created pages, the following links in this box would change as these pages were created for different purpose,

Mammoth Condos --> Condos Mammoth Foreclosures --> Foreclosures Mammoth Short Sales --> Short Sales Mammoth Dirt --> Lots / Land Mammoth Homes --> Single Family Homes

Please let me know if I should hard code the links in the Home Community box rather than displaying pages associated with "Homepage Communities Box" content label.

2-- I haven't removed the "Single Family Homes" as the "/mammoth-homes/" links to this page but I have added the "Ski-In / Ski-Out Condos and Homes" in place of "Mammoth Homes".

3-- I have updated following REO saved-searches to list only Foreclosures listings:

4-- I haven't added the "Mammoth Industrial Park" and "Mammoth Lakes Airport" pages as I am slightly confused regarding creating subpage to the "Mammoth Lakes Commercial Properties" (/mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/). The "Mammoth Lakes Commercial Properties" page is assigned to the "Communities" section so, I am not sure it would be possible to create these two pages with filename "/mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/mammoth-industrial-park/" and "/mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/mammoth-lakes-airport-hangers/".

Should I add a new section "Mammoth Lakes Commercial Real Estate" (/mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/) and move the "Mammoth Lakes Commercial Properties" (as default page) to this section and then add the "Mammoth Industrial Park" and "Mammoth Lakes Airport" pages to this section.

5-- I have verified that the 301 redirect links are pointing to correct pages.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

The client has some additional feedback for the Remax-Mammoth.com site. Can you help with these as you have time? These would be lower priority that page-associations programming.

Comments and suggestions about the links in the “What are you looking for box?” The box is good and outlines exactly what Paul is looking for but some of the new links/pages you created pose a problem with duplicate content and SEO linking strategy. The links need to be linked to the already created pages to optimally SEO the site structure. As an example for the Mammoth Condos link, it doesn’t make sense to have two different pages to build back links to, to target the same keywords and/or show the same listings.

1) At the Lifts – I changed this to Ski Resort Condos. I also changed the URL to /ski-resort-condos/

2) June Lake - Good

3) Mammoth Condos – Please delete the page you created /mammoth-lakes-condos/ and link to /mammoth-condos/

4) Mammoth Foreclosures – Please delete the page you created /mammoth-lakes-foreclosures-properties/ and link to /mammoth-lakes-foreclosures/

5) Mammoth Short Sales – Please delete the page you created /mammoth-lakes-shortsales-properties/ and link to /mammoth-lakes-short-sales/

6) Recent Price Reductions – This link goes to the same page as “Price Reductions”. Please remove link and replace with Golf Course Properties and link to /mammoth-lakes-golf-course-properties/

7) Crowley Lake - Good

9) Mammoth Crash Pads – Good

10) Mammoth Homes – Please delete the page you created /mammoth-lakes-homes/ and link to /mammoth-homes/

11) Newest REO’s - Good

12) Single Family Homes – This link goes to the same page as “Mammoth Homes”. Please remove link and replace with Ski In Ski Out and link to /ski-in-ski-out-condos-and-homes/

13) In The Meadow – Please delete the page you created /in-the-meadow/ and link to /mammoth-lakes-real-estate/mammoth-meadow/

14) Luxury Homes - Good

15) Mammoth Dirt – Please delete the page you created /mammoth-dirt/ and link to /mammoth-lakes-lots-and-land/

16) Mammoth New Listings – I changed the URL to /new-listings-mammoth-lakes/

17) Price Reductions - Good

18) Snowcreek Condos - Good but can you change the URL from /snowcreek-condos/ to /mammoth-condos/snowcreek/. I have a plan for this page to add additional content with links to all the Snowcreek Phases.

The client also has the following comments about the foreclosures / REOs searches & pages. In general, I believe that our "REO" designation currently includes both Short Sales and Foreclosures. I believe we need to change the search criteria for both pages to be only Foreclosure properties. So, the searches for the REO pages should use only Foreclosures as the criteria, not REOs and / or Short Sales. Here are the client's comments:

There is still a discrepancy between the data for “foreclosures” and “reo properties.” These should be exactly the same listings. It would be ok to leave as two separate pages as some people may relate to the terms differently.

1) Mammoth Lakes: The data in REO Properties and Short Sales is similar, because 445 Fir Street is the first listing on both pages. Foreclosures is showing 3 listings REO Properties is showing 67 listings

2) Crowley Lake: Foreclosures is showing 2 listings REO Properties is showing 6 listings

3) June Lake: Foreclosures is showing 1 listing REO Properties is showing 2 listings

4) North Mono County: Seems OK, both Foreclosures and REO Properties are showing 3 listings

5) South Mono County: Foreclosures is showing 0 listings REO Properties is showing 1 listing

Then, here are one additional set of feedback / comments from client:

On the home page in the main content area can you change the link for “Mammoth Lakes homes for sale” to link to /mammoth-homes/.

On the Mammoth Lakes Communities Page can you add a link for Ski In Ski Out under Mammoth Featured Properties and link to /ski-in-ski-out-condos-and-homes/.

Mammoth Condos Projects page looks good! Thanks for adding the pages, combining the multiple phase projects, and fixing all the abbreviations.

Mammoth Subdivisions page looks good as well. Only thing I noticed is that Mammoth Heights A & B should be combined into 1 page /mammoth-homes/mammoth-heights/. Again thanks for adding all the pages and fixing the abbreviations.

For the links above the info bar for Home and Blog, can we change the font to better match the font and color in the info bar? Also we need to add a link to Paul’s blog for his newsletter sign up. The anchor text for the link should be “Newsletter Sign Up” and the link would be http://www.mammothrealestateblog.com/2011/06/whats-this-bi-weekly-newsletter-about.html. Please open link in a new tab.

Below highlights the subdivisions to be added from your list below:

1) North Village – Subdivision, project area Village

2) Old Mammoth – Subdivision, project area Old Mammoth. There already appears to be a link to Old Mammoth Road. I went ahead and changed the page title to Old Mammoth and the URL to /old-mammoth/. Can you just verify that the search listings are accurate?

3) Pine Cliff Manor – Subdivision, project area Old Mammoth

4) Shady Rest Tract – Subdivision, project area Town

5) Webb Subdivision – Subdivision, project area Village

6) White Pine – Subdivision, project area Village

(Vihang, for creating the above pages, please use existing pages within the corresponding project areas as templates.)

Mammoth Industrial Park and Mammoth Lakes Airport are commercial areas, and currently there is not really a commercial category for the website except the listings page /mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/. At first Paul was not too interested in displaying Commercial, but he would like to add these to the website. What about a subpage to the URL above i.e. /mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/mammoth-industrial-park/ and /mammoth-lakes-commercial-real-estate/mammoth-lakes-airport-hangers/ and just add the links under Mammoth Featured Properties?

Mammoth Lakes Other is not important, all the condo projects and subdivisions are already accounted for.

For the 301 redirects for the old site to new site I just want to confirm that all the links are pointed to the correct URL. I noticed that there were some changes from the draft I put together for you:

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/featuted_listings.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/mammoth-lakes-featured-listings/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/mammoth-lakes-featured-listings/

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/new_listings.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/new-real-estate-listings/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/new-real-estate-listings/

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/new_listings_week_ended_novemb.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/new-real-estate-listings/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/new-real-estate-listings/

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/new_listings_week_ended_novemb1.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/new-real-estate-listings/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/new-real-estate-listings/

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/new_listings_week_ended_novemb2.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/new-real-estate-listings/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/new-real-estate-listings/

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/new_listings_week_ended_octobe.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/new-real-estate-listings/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/new-real-estate-listings/

http://www.remax-mammoth.com/html/top_of_the_market.html points to http://remax-mammoth.com/mammoth-luxury-homes/ not http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/mammoth-luxury-homes/

Please let me know if you have any questions about this.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

My apologies for not confirming this with you before making updates. I am not quite sure if we would be able to restore all pages' meta-tags to their previous state as I updated these pages in the database so we don't have previous version of these pages stored in versions table, but I guess we would be able to restore about 75 to 80% pages' meta-tags.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

I agree that displaying the links by content label on the main site map page does appear to be the best option -- please update the page for this when you have time.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have spent some time looking into further automating the community pages creation process. I believe most of the times we would be creating community pages for the saved-searches created on the geographic locations like Condo Projects, Subdivision, City and Area. We can add an option to select geographic type on the Community Pages Wizard. When the geographic type is changed (by default Area would be selected), the template for that geographic type (stored in the database or in a file) would be loaded in the text-editor.

For example when the Condo Project is selected the following content would be loaded in the text-editor:

"Included below are condos for sale at ##SAVED_SEARCH_NAME## Condos. The ##SAVED_SEARCH_NAME## condominium complex is located in the ##SUBDIVISION## area in ##AREA##, ##STATE##. These property listings are updated daily from the ##MLS_BOARD_FULL_NAME## MLS.

If you would like more information on any of these ##SAVED_SEARCH_NAME## Condos for sale in ##AREA##, just click the "Request More Information" button when viewing the details of that property. We can provide you with current market data, disclosures, past sales history, dates and prices of condos recently sold in the ##SUBDIVISION## area, and more.

And, if you haven't already, be sure to register for a free account so that you can receive email alerts whenever new ##SAVED_SEARCH_NAME## Condos and other ##CITY## Real Estate for sale come on the market."

The location specific config variables (like ##SUBDIVISION##, ##AREA##, ##SUBAREA## and ##COUNTY##) would map with the corresponding fields of the MLS tables. For example when creating community page for the "1849 I" condo, the ##SUBDIVISION## and ##AREA## would be replaced with "Canyon Lodge" and "Mammoth Lakes" respectively. The only point to consider would be that the name of the saved-search would have to match the corresponding location name in the MLS tables. For example, if the saved-search name is "1849 I" the programming will check for an MLS record with the same condo name. On the other hand if the saved-search name is "1849 I Condos" it will not match any records.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have verified that the saved-searches for the CondoProject/Subdivisions listed in comment-26 contain all of the CondoProjects/Subdivisions for that area. And yes, when updating these saved-searches a CondoProject would be removed if there are no active listings available for that CondoProject.

I have updated Mono County Communities pages per comment-28. Please note that there were about 100 having same text set as MetaTitle, MetaKeywords and MetaDescription. I do remember adding distinct values for these three fields when creating community pages. I have double checked the Create Community pages and Add/Update content page script/code and there doesn't seem to be any problem with that. I may have accidentally updated meta-tags in the "Mammoth Lakes Condos" and "Mammoth lakes Subdivision" sections pages when updating content in the database but I am sure I didn't update content pages in other sections. I have also checked the Pages Versions tables but I could not find records for most of these pages. So, I am not quite sure about the cause of this. I have updated the meta-tags for most of these pages based on the-meta tags of similar pages in other sections.

I have also deleted the pages listed in the spreadsheet.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Excellent work, thank you. When you have time, can you please make a few more changes to the site?

1 - Convert the property listing detail page to the new detail page

2 - Add two new Scrollers to the home page, below the current "Foreclosures & Short Sales" scroller. The first should be called Mammoth Luxury Homes, and the second should be called Mammoth Crash Pads. The client has not given us criteria for these yet, so if you could please just create a new saved search for each one, using the names above, and the criteria "Residential - Mammoth Lakes", that would be great.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

I've made a few changes to this site today, mainly to replace instance of previous client (Kentucky Select Properties) with new client name (RE/MAX of Mammoth), and also to correct some display issues on the home page. I've committed and pushed all related changes to Unfuddle, and I've also FTP'd those changes up to the server.

Getting this site up and running is currently our priority, and so would take precedence at this point over the task of automating the copying of template pages into existing sites. Main priorities would be:

1 - Getting scrollers working properly on the home page. For the main scroller, the saved search would include both Short Sales and Foreclosures (which I believe is an option on the search form for Region 1). One thing I'm seeing currently on the home page is that the auto-rotating scrollers are disappearing and reappearing at certain intervals. This may be related to the fact that the main scroller is not displaying on the site (the scrollers do display correctly in all browsers on the KY Select Properties site).

2 - Getting the links for the main navigation menu corrected and updated

3 - Updating home page and interior page quick searches

4 - Creating community pages from saved searches

The main "Mammoth Communities" page will be similar to the "Orange County Communities" page on the WeirProperties.com site (http://www.weirproperties.com/orange-county-real-estate/) in that it will be a standard content page with content label widgets, rather than using the communities_full.asp page.

5 - Updating the Contact page with contact info / content for the client and adding the correct CSS styles for the display of that form

Thanks for your help with this. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

The Remax-Mammoth.com client has also requested that we create some 301 redirects for him. I've attached a spreadsheet which contains a full list of the redirects from the old site URLs to the new site URLs. A few points on this:

1 - Since all of the old site URLs end in .html, it will be easy to identify them, and so I think we should use an external text file to the .htaccess file in the same way that we are doing on HomeToIndy.com for the .php files. According to ISAPI Rewrite, using an external text file in this way is much faster.

2 - In the spreadsheet, there are a few URLs highlighted in green, which indicate new pages still to be created (and a few of which, such as the sales data pages, have already been created). We don't need to worry about creating these new pages just yet but, in certain places, the URLs the client has specified for these new pages are not correct.

For example, he has specified a URL of "http://remax-mammoth.com/property-search/list/new-real-estate-listings/" for the New Listings page (which he would like to have created instead of linking to a Saved Search). In all cases, he has included "/property-search/list/" in the URL, and I believe we just need to strip that out. So, the correct URL of the page would be, "http://remax-mammoth.com/new-real-estate-listings/"

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I have fixed the quick search issue reported in #56. The issue was due to the default Area option value was set to "0" as a result no matching listings were found when list-type or any other criteria was selected first.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Thanks for your updates. The site is looking good. I have made a number of additional updates to the site today, and have created some additional pages.

For today, we actually have another site that we need to turn our attention to -- IndysBestHomes.com -- and we can come back to the Remax-Mammoth.com site on Monday. I have committed and pushed all my changes for the Remax-Mammoth.com site -- can you please be sure to fetch the latest changes?

Thanks -- I am going to add the IndysBestHomes.com ticket now. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Today, with the IndysBestHomes.com site (essentially) completed, we will need to turn our attention back to the Remax-Mammoth.com site. For this site:

1 - Yes, please do create community pages for Mammoth Lakes Project Areas, Mono County Communities and Inyo County Communities sections. Doing this for the Project Areas, however, may be slightly complicated, as those areas are not directly represented in the MLS data. Meaning, for example, that I don't believe there is an easy way to draw in all of the "Canyon Lodge" or "Eagle Lodge" listings into a single page. The only way I see to do that would be by creating a saved search for the Subdivisions and Condo Projects that are referenced as belonging to the Project Area on the individual workbook sheets (Canyon, Eagle, Meadow, etc.) However, because we can't include listings by both Subdivision and Project Area in a single set of results, we would not be able to pull all listings into a single page.

So, for now, please create the individual pages, and then, on each page, bring in two content label widgets, one for "[Project Area] Condo Developments" and one for "[Project Area] Neighborhoods (Single Family Homes)". The first would include links to the different condo projects in that project area, and the second to the different subdivisions in that area.

Regarding creating the subdivision pages, I think we may run into a similar difficulty there in attempting to conform to the "Subdivisions" content template. Again, there is no way, when pulling a list of Subdivisions, to tell from the MLS data which Project Area they are part of. So, I believe it will be necessary to create the Subdivision pages in separate batches, one for each Project Area, so that the individual Project Areas can be properly referenced within the pages. Hopefully this should go fairly quickly once the basic programming is in place.

On the Communities page of the site, yes, we would display Featured Searches for the different areas, but we will also want to include content label widgets for:

So, the order should go:

Pleae let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

RE #38 point-2:

I could have done the same for the Mammoth Luxury Homes and Mammoth Crashpads saved-searches. However, client wants to include all condos priced above $650,000 and homes priced above $795,000 for the Mammoth Luxury Homes. Similarly for the Mammoth Crashpads, he wants to include all condos priced below $200,000 and homes priced below $375,000. So I have created individual saved-searches. Please let me know if it would be fine to set same price for condos and homes for both the luxury homes and crashpads saved-searches.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

I forgot to mention this yesterday but I have updated the property-search/res/includes/session_mgr.asp to change the domain name to "mammothmls.sierrainteractivemls.com" when request is made from "remax-mammoth.com" (line 27).

Also, I noticed that in the Featured Listings saved-search the Office MLS ID is set to 102. Whereas on the Site Contact Information page it is same as Agent MLS ID (36). Please let me know if I should update the Office MLS ID to 102 in the Contact Information page and the constants_client.asp file.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Great, thank you. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying. Please do combine both residential and condos into one search on all of those pages, and use the lower of the price ranges specified.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

We have only a small remaining changes for Remax-Mammoth.com:

Can you please make this change when you have a moment?

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

The client on this site is, unfortunately, being very demanding, and has requested some additional changes to the content & saved searches on this site.

Is there a way for you to programmatically make the following changes:

1 - In the Saved Search names (and, so, also in the names of the corresponding Content Pages, and in the Title, Description, Keywords and Content of those pages), some of the names are abbreviated, due to their having been included that way in the IDX data.

For example, the Saved Search "Mmth Vista I" actually represents "Mammoth Vista I", and "Mmth VIew Vlls" actually represents "Mammoth View Villas".

Is there a way for you to iterate through the names of the Saved Searches and make the following replacements?

Then, the same updates would need to be made in all fields of the content pages, as well.

Also, the client has requested that the Roman numerals be replaced with normal numbers in all Saved Searches and content pages, meaning:

The only exception to this last request (Roman numerals) is the Snowcreek pages -- these should remain Snowcreek I, Snowcreek II, etc., and so should the corresponding Saved Searches.

If it's not possible to get this done in an automated way, please let me know, and I will find another way to go about it.

If it is possible, can you save the programming you create to do this, as I am sure we will have further use for it in the future?

Thanks.

Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Ben,

Please note that, the pages I updated had same text set as all three meta-tags. For example, the 1849 page had "1849 Condos for Sale | RE/MAX Mammoth" set as MetaTitle, MetaDescription and MetaKeywords. Also, I did not find any records for these pages in the versions table so I guess these pages might not have been updated by client using CAA.

Please let me know if I should update the MetaKeywords per the spreadsheet. For example, the MetaKeyrds of the 1849 page would be updated to "1849 condos,1849 mammoth" from existing "1849 condos for sale, Mammoth Lakes California real estate, 1849 Mammoth Lakes condos for sale".

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

Battler45 commented 4 years ago

Vihang,

Also, not sure how difficult this would be, but would it be possible to add a dynamic listing count to the home page quick search box, aligned to the right edge of the box in the same line with the Search Now button? Similar in style to what we have on MLSHomesKY.com or MLSKY.net (but matching colors, and fonts sized appropriately to make it fit comfortably in the box).

This would be for the home page only, and not for the interior pages.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)