Convert Raw HTML/ CSS / JS to working pro site for new JoeHaydenRealtor.com

[Battler45]

Vihang & Vihar,

I know that both of you are working on several other tasks, but, as you have time, our next task will be to get underway on integrating the programming, etc. into the raw HTML / CSS / JS of the new JoeHaydenRealtor.com website.

Vihar, the reason I've included you on this ticket is that, as we've discussed, I believe we will need to create a set of duplicate content and blog posts for this new site, which we'll then be able to work with in development without affecting the current live site. Can either you or Vihang move forward with that when you have time? I suppose this will also involve duplicating the current Sites record to a new record, and then also duplicating the site's current AdminUser to a new user.

Vihang, I've also configured a new working website for the new site. You can find it here:

http://joehaydenrealtornew.sierrainteractivedev.com/index.html http://joehaydenrealtornew.sierrainteractivedev.com/inner.html

You can access this site via FTP using the usual credentials, with the username, joehaydenrealtornew_dev

Once you log in to the site, you'll see that common files such as default.asp, content.asp, etc. have already been added to the site. I'm not sure how those got there -- I may have added them in copying the site, or it's possible that Arthur added them after finishing the site HTML. If you examine them and find that they don't belong there, or that you prefer to proceed in a different way, it's fine to remove or change them as needed.

In configuring this site, we are going to need to make some changes to the Communities page, by adding an number of new top-level Communities sections, and then assigning the (duplicated) pages in the content manager to the appropriate sections using the attached spreadsheet.

As you'll see in the attached spreadsheet, the client would like to add 15 new top-level sections to the new site, and many of the pages currently in the main Communities section will be re-assigned to these newly created sections.

Once that's done, the main Communities page on the new site (which includes the alphabetized list) will need to pull neighborhoods from all of these sections (similar to what we are already doing with MLSKY.net).

Can you get started with the programming integration there when you have time? Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

1 - Yes, that's correct.

2 - Yes, correct

3 - Louisville MLS will go to the Property Listings site map (which I believe will be "/louisville-mls/site-map/"), and I think that "Louisville Real Estate" will go to the main communities page.

4 - Good question. For now, please leave this as static content.

5 - Another good question. I believe we may need to implement jQuery UI Autocomplete because client wants address and mls # to be searchable from the main box along with city, county and subdivision. But let me get back to you on that.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

Please find below a few questions:

1-- I believe the new site will have sidebar navigation menu (similar to some of the standard sites) instead of drop-down navigation menu. Could you please confirm this?

2-- Could you please confirm that the Community Resources link in the footer would map to the "Community Info" section?

3-- Could you please let me know the corresponding page/section for the "Louisville MLS" and "Louisville Real Estate footer links"?

4-- There is a "Text HAYDEN to 87778" widget on the home page. Could you please let me know if the site would use our "Send us a text message" functionality?

5-- I believe we will not be using Chosen plugin in this site. Please let me know if I should try to implement the jQuery UI Autocomplete plugin in this site.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I've created new Sites record for the new JoeHaydenRealtor site (340) and have also added a new AdminUser record for Joe Hayden (1026). Pls note that the user-name for the new AdminUser is joe_new so that it could be used for accessing new site. We've also created duplicated contents / saved-searches records and have associated them with the new site.

Pls note the following points:

1 -- New sections have been added as listed in the attached spreadsheet. They have been associated with appropriate pages. Pls note that the number of pages listed in the spreadsheet is 670 whereas the total number of community pages (associated with the Communities section) is 797. Pls let me know if we need to associate those remaining 127 pages with appropriate section.

2 -- For now I haven't created duplicate blog records for the new site. I believe it would be fairly straightforward to associate blog-records with the new site as and when we launch it. For now the client can continue adding / updating blog entries. Pls let me know your inputs.

Vihang will start working on adding programming for the new front-end site.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Vihar,

Excellent, thank you. When we get closer to launch, the client is going to provided us with an updated spreadsheet indicating how he would like the remaining community pages to be assigned.

Also, I agree with you regarding the blog posts / functionality.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have added necessary include files and converted HTML/CSS to working main pages. Please find below a few questions:

1-- I noticed that several content pages like contact, site-map etc on the live site don't have sidebar content. Could you please let me know if I should not add sidebar content for such pages on the new site as well?

2-- I also noticed that the live site has custom Free Market Analysis form. I believe the new site will also have same form. Please confirm this.

3-- Could you please let me know if I should add same programming/plugins for the Facebook/Twitter widget as on the PWPrudential.com site?

4-- I believe when the Play button on the "Your Real Estate Expert" widget is clicked, it will open a video in an overlay. Could you please confirm this?

5-- The market stats widget on this site has different attributes compared to other sites and I am not sure which field of the MLSPropertyStats table to use for these attributes. Could you please let me know the same? Also, could you please confirm that the Market Statistics page will have same Market box as in other sites.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

1 - Good question. On this site, though, I think it is fine to include sidebar content on all site pages (except for the new property listing detail page).

2 - Also a good question, but, no, in this case, I think it will be best to use the free_market_analysis_2.asp form in the /property-search/ folder, as on this site: http://www.buildingstapleton.com/property-search/free-market-analysis/

3 - Yes, that would be great. The programming will be slightly different because we will not have the tabs at the top of the box switching states as they do on the PWPrudential.com site, but, yes, the plugins will be the same and the basic functionality will also be the same. The links to the clients profiles are:

• http://www.facebook.com/LouisvilleKYRealEstate

• http://twitter.com/joehayden

4 - Yes, exactly, the functionality will be very similar to what you see on http://www.weselllouisville.com, and you can use the same code and the same style overlay as on that site. The client does not yet have the finished video ready, so, for now, please use this video as a placeholder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA&feature=relmfu

5 - Yes, good question. For some reason, I had failed to notice that. We do not actually have several of the stats listed in that box. So, please use the following instead:

• Total Properties Listed:

• New Properties Today: [Linked to new listings]

Then, beneath the Averages header, please use:

• Days on Market
• Avg List Price (Res)
• Median List Price (Res)
• Month-Over-Month Chng

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have completed most of the work on the new JoeHaydenRealtor.com site.

Please note that

1-- The search tools pages, featured listings and quick search widgets are not working at present as the site is pointing to live database but uses the search tools of the dev sever.

2-- The Twitter plugin is not fitting well in the Facebook/Twitter box. Please let me know if it would be fine to use some jQuery plugin to get recent tweets, e.g. http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/.

3-- Regarding sidebar navigation, I have used the /shared/global/sicm/content/content_side_nav_li.asp file to show list of pages in the active Section. However, I am not sure if this would be the right approach as several sections, especially newly added community sections have 100+ pages. Please let me know your thoughts on displaying sidebar navigation links.

Also, it appears that a fixed height is set for the sidebar navigation box. As a result if the number of links exceeds the fixed height then the whole sidebar looks distorted. Please let me know if it would be fine to remove the fixed height.

4-- A few pages, like contact, have fixed width set in the content itself. Please let me know if it would be fine to remove the fixed width from such pages. Also, it appears that the header is centrally aligned (in the content) for most of the pages. Please let me know if I should left align the same.

5-- I noticed that the existing site has different set of styles (like XXL Bold Brown, XXL em Bold Brown etc) then the other Pro Sites. Please let me know if the new site would use the same set of styles as on the old site.

Please let me know if I should start working on the jQuery Autocomplete plugin integration.

Please check the site and let me know your feedback.

Thanks.

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Ben,

RE #8 - point-1 - a few changes will need to made in order to push the changes to live version of the search-tools. Ideally, this will also require updating a few stored-procedures and pushing changes to the old and new updater as well so that the new detail page url works fine. For now though I think we should be able to push changes assuming the new joe-hayden site will continue to use old url-structure for some time.

An alternative approach would be to restore the latest sierrainteractive-1 live db backup as dev. db and then test the site on the dev. db. Once we have all the changes in place we can then push changes to the live db / search-tools.

Pls let me know your thoughts.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Ben,

RE: #13 - point-1 - I think we'll need to push all related changes in order to integrate the dev search-tools back into the live branch. That is, in addition to the changes made to the front-end sites' programming, it would be good to publish changes to the CAA as well. Then, once we are ready to launch the site, we can publish changes to the updaters (old and new) to be able to handle new detail-page url (spid). Pls let me know if I should treat this as the highest priority task.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

One other thing -- regarding the quick search, we may need to take an approach on this site similar to what we are doing on HardestWorkingRealtor.org, and load the Quick Search contents via AJAX rather than via an iframe. The reason is that, on this site, as with the HardestWorkingRealtor.org site, the bottom border of the iframe is very close to the bottom border of the quick search box, and so we would not be able to display enough of the search box (auto-complete) options while the drop-down height is limited by the iframe height.

Can you look into changing that functionality to load the quick seearches via AJAX rather than in an iframe?

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

[Battler45]

Vihar,

Ah, I see. Well, whichever way you prefer is fine with me -- it does seem like the latter way might be easier. I suppose we could continue to make changes to the content for the new site via the live CAA, even if we were not able to preview those changes on the development site?

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I agree - the second option sounds easier. I'll work on restoring the latest sierrainteractive-1 db today. And, we can continue to make changes to the contents via the live CAA.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have updated the Featured Listings widget per comment-15 and updated Market Statistics page to show stats for Indian Hills instead of Cherokee Triangle.

I have also made changes to load the Quick Search form via AJAX. However, there seems to be some issue with the listing counts row display. I spent some to on this but I am not able to fix the styling issue. Also, please note that the overflow property of the search form container (div#fadeBox) is set to hidden, as a result not all search options are visible. When I removed the overflow property the "Fewer Options" button was not working. Can you please ask Arthur/Evgen to look in to this?

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

A couple of additional items on the JoeHaydenRealtor.com site:

1 - For the Featured Listings widget on the home page, can you please make the entire photo a link to the detail view for the listing, rather than just the Details button?

2 - Also for the Featured Listings widget, can you please use the thumbnail version of the images rather than the larger size? These thumbnail images are formatted to 140px, and the images in the widget are at 148px, so they would have to be displayed at a slightly larger size than what they actually are, but I think the savings in page load time will outweigh a small decrease in image quality.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Last thing on this site for today, I promise!

On the Market Statistics page:

http://joehaydenrealtornew.sierrainteractivedev.com/louisville-ky-real-estate-market-statistics/

There is a display problem with the Cherokee Triangle box header text wrapping to two lines. Can you either decrease the padding at left and right in the header of these boxes so that this text fits on one line, or shorten the title of that box to "Cherokee Tri. Trends", so that it will fit on one line? Or, as another alternative, we could specify a different area -- perhaps Indian Hills (as already included here: http://www.juliepogue.com/communities/market-statistics/)

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have fixed the detail page issue.

Regarding blog, please note, that the RSS feed icon is added in the shared /global/sicm/blog/blog_posts_body.asp file and the span tag within the H1 tag was workaround to address the issue, RSS feed icon not being clickable when the Cufon font is used. So makinng any change in the RSS feed icon display for this site would also apply on other sites. Please let me know if this would be fine.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

RE: #18

Thanks for making these changes. I will ask Arthur & Evgen to take a look at the styling issues to see if they can help with those.

One issue I am currently experiencing on the site is that when I click a listing in the Featured Listings box, I'm not able to view the property details for a listing -- I get an error message stating that there is a redirect loop, but I'm unable to determine why that might be. Do you have any thoughts?

Also, Joe Hayden has emailed a couple of times asking if we can help with the display of the H1 tag on the home page of his blog, which is inline with the RSS feed icon.

Can you make a change to the blog functionality to remove the RSS icon from its current location (inline with the H1 tag), and also remove the span tag wrapper from the H1 text. Instead, please try adding the attached image into the blog navigation include file, above the Home link (left-aligned with it), and with the same amount of padding between it and the Home link as there is between the Home link and the Posts by Category link. (You might try wrapping the RSS feed image in an H2 tag like those other links to achieve that equal padding).

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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

[Battler45]

Vihar,

Unfortunately, I'm feeling a bit ill tonight and so am not going to be able to research this as I had thought. Would you mind taking a look at the programming in those xml_feeds/ pages. You can ignore the luxury real estate file (that creates a text file once per day), and you can also ignore the newpanda.asp file (same thing -- creates a text file once per day).

The trulia and zillow feeds could be tested on the joehaydenrealtor.com site -- I think by passing in the id of the featured listings search on that site.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

2 - Thanks for working through the alternatives. I will share them with the client to get his feedback -- all three approaches are nice solutions, and so I'm not sure which one he will want.

5 - This looks great, thanks. I will make some updates to the stylesheets to bring these more into line with the fonts & colors of the new site.

6 - Thanks for researching the auto-complete plugins. Yes, I agree with your assessment -- please go ahead and use the jQuery automcomplete plugin. In setting up the site, I am going to work on improving caching of site assets (very important to client) by serving them from a cookie-less domain, so that all of these assets will only need to be loaded once.

Regarding your additional notes:

1 - On the dev database, I know we spoke about this last week, but the more I think about it, the more it seems that we may need to make integrating the search tools changes from the dev branch into the master branch a priority so that we can point this development site to the live database.

Looking at the site today, I am certain that when I show it to the client, he is going to want to get in there and begin making changes to the content right away -- and, as I understand it, that would not be a good idea while the site is pointing to the development database, correct? If that's not the case, please let me know. But, if it is the case, can you talk with Vihar to discuss what would be required to integrate the dev search tools back into the master branch and make this happen?

2 - Yes, that looks good. I will discuss with the client and will let you know his feedback.

3 - Yes, please do set all of those to "NO," as they will not be displayed on this site.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Great, thank you.

1 - I see. Can you check with Vihar to see what needs to happen in order for us to be able to push the dev version of the search tools out to the live sites, so that we can switch the connection string on this site to point the search tools to the live server?

2 - Yes, that looks like a great idea. The Facebook widget at least fits within the box, but it is not very usable at present. Are there similar alternatives for Facebook that you have found? On the interior pages, you might also try making these containers a bit taller in order to allow a better presentation / more content to be displayed.

3 - I think this is a good approach for all but the community sections. Once we check with the client, he may want us to do something similar to what we are doing with the Archives links in the Blog -- display the first 3-5 links, with a More link below them that would display the rest when clicked.

And yes, please do remove the fixed height for the navigation box. If you have too much trouble with this, let me know and I will ask Evgen to look into it.

4 - Yes, please do remove the fixed width from such pages. And good question about centering the content / headers vs. left-aligning them. Let's wait and I will check with the client on that once we show him the site for his review. Personally, I think it best to left-align these types of things, but this particular client seems to have a passion for centering them.

5 - Also a great question. Because these styles are included in so many pages, I do think we need to preserve them in the stylesheet, but I think we are also going to want to update and change them to better match the look and feel of the new site. So, for now, please copy these styles as-is into the global.css for the site and also into the stylesheet used by the editor, and I will take a look at them once they are in place on the site.

6 - Yes, please do begin working on the jQuery autocomplete. However, before deciding to go with the standard autocomplete plugin that requires jQuery UI, could you take a look at this page: http://choosedaily.com/1308/15-jquery-autocomplete-plugins-tutorials/ and see if any of the plugins listed there seem like a better fit (and lighter weight)? I would hate to have to include the whole jQuery UI script just for the sake of having access to the autocomplete plugin.

The site is looking great so far, thanks for your help.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

Re #8:

2-- Unfortunately there is no such plugin for Facebook and I haven't yet used the jQuery twitter plugin either. I have thought of couple of alternatives to make these widgets more usable. As a first alternative, I have set the "overflow" property of widget container to "hidden" so that any content exceeding the height of the widget would not be displayed and placed "MORE" button (similar to the "DETAILS" button on the Featured Listings widget), which when clicked would expand the widget.

A second alternative would be to show the facebook/twitter widgets in an overlay. We can add placeholder images for facebook/twitter and a play button image, when clicked would show the facebook/twitter widget in an overlay, similar to the "Your Real Estate Expert" box.

We can also try to emulate the way facebook/twitter widgets are displayed on this page http://www.risepk.com/posts/fb-popout-likebox/#more-1541.

5-- I have copied the XXL Bold Brown, XXL em Bold Brown etc styles into the content manager stylesheet and also into the global.css.

6-- I have checked the autocomplete plugins listed on this page http://choosedaily.com/1308/15-jquery-autocomplete-plugins-tutorials/. There are a couple of plugins which can be used for our purpose as they have overriding functions to custom format the results, http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm and http://1300grams.com/2009/08/17/jquery-autocomplete-with-json-jsonp-support-and-overriding-the-default-search-parameter-q/. However, these plugins do not have functions/methods to parse the resultant custom data or to get the corresponding custom value for the selected option, which we can do with ease in jQuery Autocomplete plugin.

Also, we won't need to include the whole jQuery UI script for the Autocomplete plugin to work. We can customize the script for Autocomplete plugin and the latest version of the custom jQuery UI Autocomplete script is only 21 KB in size. So, I think it would be good to use jQuery UI Autocomplete pluign then any other plugins. Please let me know your thoughts.

Also, please note that

1-- The site is now pointing to dev database.

2-- The sidebar navigation link was overlapping to the next link when exceeded the width of the navigation box. So, I have updated sidebar navigation links style to display link text in a single line.

3-- I have removed the sidebar HTML from the SIST sidebar_mls.asp, sidebar_mls_detail.asp and sidebar_search_form.asp files. Please let me know if I should set various "Display Sidebar" properties to NO on the Site Styles and Layout page of the CAA.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Please place further comments into Basecamp, here:

https://basecamp.com/1767592/projects/354099-110-joehaydenrealtor

[Battler45]

Vihang,

I've discussed with the client and he is okay with waiting to merge content back together when the new site goes live. He is going to continue to need to make changes on the old (current) site until that time the new site is ready to launch. Will it be possible for us at that time to merge content between the new sites? I know it will be difficult, but the client feels it's an absolute necessity that he continue making changes on the current site until the new site goes live (for SEO purposes) and I was not able to deter him in this.

So, would you and Vihar be able to come up with a way that pulls the pages from both sites, and, for those that exist on both sites, compare the date last updated to select the most recent version and keep that as the current one?

I realize this may be somewhat difficult due to the fact that the sections are different between the two sites. Please let me know your thoughts on that.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

Glad to hear that you're feeling better now.

I also thought about referencing the common programming for those sites but they have some differences in the way data is retrieved so I didn't make the change. I agree that it would be good to revisit this later.

As for launching the GLAR updater - the imported data appears to be in order so I'm confident about that. The only thing I'm concerned about is the photo migration. As mentioned earlier, the photo-migration app was built to process weekly photos so I'll need to revisit it once before we initiate the transfer.

That said, the new updater is needed to be launched so that the email-alerts contain correct links. As I understand we won't be launching the new JoeHaydenRealtor site for another few days so we can continue with the old GLAR updater for another couple of days. That will give us time to prepare for the launch of the new GLAR updater, which is critical considering the number of sites we have in that region.

The only change that would be needed for now would be to update the spInsertUpdateMLSListing and spRemoveListingByMLSNumber stored-procedures so that they start moving records to the OffMarket table. Pls let me know if now would be the correct time to update those stored-procedures. If the old updater has already started then perhaps I'll do that my early tomorrow.

In any case, I've changed the new JoeHaydenRealtor site to point to the live db and use the live search-tools programming.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I've updated the remaining files on DEDJ198 to integrate custom-url specific changes. I've also published the changes to the CAA and lead-distribution web-service. I've verified the changes in CAA and web-service. I'm currently verifying front-end sites hosted on the DEDJ198 server.

Pls note that I found an issue in juliepogue site in that the features listings weren't not getting displayed on the home-page. Apparently the programming in the listing-carousel-2.asp is calling the FormDetailLinkFromAddress function. Pls note that this function has been updated as a part of the custom-url change. This function now requires a couple of additional parameters viz. search-tools-root-directory and url-structure values (Sites table) and unique-id value (MLS table). To fix this issue, I've updated the listing-carousel-2.asp file to pass default values to this function.

Moreover, the file was referencing the \shared\global\sicm\main_includes\functions.asp file for FormDetailLinkFromAddress. Pls note that this function is now moved to a common-file, \MLS_Tools_Integrated\res\includes\common_functions.asp which is internally referenced from the \MLS_Tools_Integrated\res\includes\functions.asp and shared\global\sicm\content\widget_saved_listings_top.asp files. All other files (including \sicm\main_includes\functions.asp) have been updated to remove the definition of FormDetailLinkFromAddress function.

Can you pls let me know if there are other such instances where the FormDetailLinkFromAddress function is called from within the site specific programming? We'll need to change all those instances to pass additional parameters. I thought about performing full-text search of Inetpub files but that might slow down the server. Pls let me know if we have any other way of checking this.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Also, as I am not feeling well tonight, I won't be able to provide feedback on any of the client sites additional steps -- so, for today, could you please coordinate with Vihar to see if there are any steps you can help with, either in the CAA or on the front end sites, to push the dev version of the search tools out to the live servers? Perhaps you could begin looking at integrating some of the new page components into the front end search tools? I know you will need some guidance there, but I think you should be able to get started on creating and integrating the programming for those components in the shared folders.

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

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Ben,

I have made changes in the RSS feed icon display in the dev server. Please note that, the blog navigation file is also included in the blog details page so the RSS feed icon would be displayed on the details page as well.

Please check the blog pages on the following sites and let me know if I should update the same on both the live servers.

http://joehaydenrealtornew.sierrainteractivedev.com/blog/

http://realestate3000.sierrainteractivedev.com/blog/

http://weselllouisville.sierrainteractivedev.com/blog/

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihar,

Thanks for pointing that out -- I will double-check those today. I do believe that each of those pages requires a valid searchid parameter in order to execute, and that some of them are even restricted to being active only during certain parts of the day. I will update this ticket later today with my findings.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

RE: #19 - I've begun working on integration custom-url changes (#98 and #99). I've update large number of live search-tools files on DEDN173. I should be able to complete these changes tomorrow. I'll then copy those changes to the live site on DEDJ198.

Pls note that in making this changes I found that none of the xml_feeds/*.asp pages appear to be working. I may not have called them correctly so pls verify the same.

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

We've had some feedback from Joe Hayden on his new site, and so far he likes it a lot, but he does have a couple of requests:

1 - With the quick search, it seems to be agressive in auto-selecting the first option. For example, he says that if he starts typing in "Lake" with the intention of typing "Lake Forest" it jumps to "Boulders of Mallard Lake." Is there a way to make it function in this regard more like the Chosen plugin, where the first option is highlighted so that if they hit Enter or Tab it is selected, but that it does not automatically populate without that? Then, if they don't select from the drop-down list, the value would be nulled out? (Meaning, they would not be able to enter a value without selecting from the auto-complete list.)

2 - Can you copy over to the new site all pages that Joe has added or updated since you and Vihar did the original export of pages to the new site?

3 - Also, can you create a new spreadsheet of neighborhoods in exactly the same format as the original one, but this one picking up with neighborhood pages added after the last one was created? (I believe the cutoff date was November 28.)

4 - On the customer-facing sitemap on the new site please include all site pages including those in all community sections.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

RE: #23

For now, please go ahead and make those blog changes live -- I think it looks good enough at this point to push it out to all sites. I will check the sites individually to see if there are any that need to be tweaked, one way or another.

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

[Battler45]

Vihar,

RE: #37

I would prefer to go ahead and publish the new GLAR updater sooner rather than later if you are confident that everything is in place there.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I noticed that the "Interactive Map Search" and "Property Tracker" images are not linked. Please let me know if I should link these images to "/louisville-mls/map/" and "/louisville-mls/property-tracker/" pages respectively.

Also, now that we have removed the sidebar navigation, there is no way to view other pages in Buyers, Sellers, About and Contact sections. Please let me know if I should display the sidebar navigation for these sections.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Can you please add the following testimonial to the home page for the new Joe Hayden website?

"Our family can honestly say that we were completely satisfied with the services we received through Joe Hayden and his entire team. From the beginning, we were impressed with his personal approach, professionalism, attention to detail, and hard work." Christina and Bobby W.

Also, the client is going to have a couple of additional testimonials, and would like these to rotate on the home page (fading in and out, each approx 8 seconds). Can you go ahead and set that up?

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

RE #44:

I have updated the autocomplete implementation per point-1 and included all new section pages on the site-map page per point-4. Please check the same.

RE #46:

Yes, it would be difficult to merge the newly added/ updated content into the new site but we will try to find a solution for this. Thinking more about this, I believe it would be good to add new sections in the old site (182) and assign pages to the appropriate section per the spreadsheet when new site goes live. We can then discard the new site (340). This will require us to update the constants in the new front-end site but this would be easier compared to migrating newly added/updated content to the new site. This will also save us from re-assigning leads, admin-user and blog records and assets (images/files) to the new site. All we need to do would be to:

1-- Add new sections in the old site (182)

2-- Assign pages to appropriate sections per the spreadsheet

3-- Replace the "/property-search/" to "/louisville-mls/" in the post/pages contents.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihar,

RE: #17

Yes, I do suppose we need to treat this as the highest priority task, because (in some ways) our ability to complete the Joe Hayden project depends on this getting done. The Manual Listings are also a priority (for the Huff Realty project), but the project is not as urgent for Huff as it is for Joe Hayden.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Yes, I realize the change would apply to all sites, and that would be fine. I think with the new approach the button will be more visible to site visitors. Once we launch the change, we may get feedback from clients that they don't all like it, but I think in general they will be happy that this button is more visible to help better promote their RSS feeds.

But that does bring up a good point regarding padding / spacing of this image in the blog navigation above the "HOME" link -- if you place the image within an h2 tag to achieve consistent padding, then we may experience the same type of "clickable" issue with sites that use cufon applied to the h2 style. However, aside from using the h2 tag, I'm not aware of any other way to achieve consistent padding between these elements. So, for now, why don't you try specifying a bottom-padding of 12px on this image (and not using an h2 tag), and we will see how that works.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I will work on point-1 and 4 tomorrow.

Regarding 2:

When we migrated saved-searches/content-pages to the new site, we thought this would be a one-time operation and the client would add/update saved-searches/content pages to the new site. So we created script accordingly. We will need to make changes in the scripts to migrate added/updated saved-searches and content pages to the new site. Please let me know if it would be fine to do so when we make the site live.

Please find attached a spreadsheet listing all the neighborhood pages added on or after 28 November 2011.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I hope you are doing well now. To inform you on the work-progress - I've updated programming on DEDN173 (Live site) to integrate custom-url changes. I've also modified a few files on the DEDJ198 server for the same. I'll update the rest of the files and update CAA (live) tomorrow.

A couple of points:

1 -- In order for the new Joe Hayden site to work correctly on the live database, we'll need to publish the new GLAR updater as soon as possible. The new updater will handle generation of unique-ids (spid). This will make sure that the new detail url-structure will function correctly.

Per our discussion in the last week, we had planned to initiation GLAR photo migration today (Friday). Unfortunately I couldn't start it as the ftp server (glarmls.com) contains daily photo files as well. Pls note that the photo-migration app was created to process weekly files only. A couple of workarounds are

a -- to download only weekly files from the FTP server and then process those photos. Once those photos are migrated, the new GLAR updater can be configured to process photos of last few days (starting from Monday).

b -- to publish the new GLAR updater without migrating photos. The front-end sites' programming uses the value of the PhotoServer field (MLSPhotos) to build photo-paths so we should be fine even if photos are present on both new and old servers.

Pls let me know your thoughts.

2 -- The disclaimer_text.asp file contents are different on DEDN173 and DEDJ198. Pls confirm if the file on DEDN173 contains the latest changes.

Thanks.

Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have updated the filename (to "/") of the default pages of new sections. It appears that the client hasn't added default page of the following sections:

• Patio Homes
• Prospect Homes
• Shelby County Homes
• Spencer County Homes
• St. Matthews Homes

Please let me know if I should add the same.

Also, please note that while updating section filename, I had also updated section name, that is, Subdivision was replaced by Homes. For example, "Anchorage Subdivision" was updated to "Anchorage Homes". Similarly I had updated the links in the "Search by Area" box as well. However, I noticed that the Page Title of the default page is set as "[XYZ] Subdivision". For example, the Page Title of the default page of the "Anchorage Homes" section is "Anchorage Subdivisions". So, I wanted to confirm if I only needed to update the section filename. Please let me know if I should replace Homes with Subdivisions in the section name and "Search by Area" links.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Ben,

RE: #26 - I've fixed the issue in newpanda, trulia and zillow feed-generation but I couldn't verify whether or not correct data is generated. Apparently all those files use the OfficeMLSID value (and most likely a few additional parameters which I couldn't figure out) for retrieving records. I tested the trulia and zillow feeds for joehayden and hometoindy sites but it didn't pull any records. Are these feeds used for a few sites only?

Thanks. Posted by Shah Vihar(unfuddle username: vshah)

[Battler45]

Ben,

Re #27:

I have pushed the blog changes to the live servers and checked this on 12 to 15 sites. There was an issue in the RSS feed icon display on the HomeToIndy.com site. I have fixed the same. Please check all sites and let me know if we need to tweak the RSS feed icon display on any site.

Re #28:

I am slightly confused regarding integrating new page components into the search tools pages. Do you mean integrating "New Contact Form" and "Property Statistics Box" components on the front-end site content page and all of these components on the blog detail page?

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have completed work on the jQuery Autocomplte plugin integration. Please note the following points regarding this:

1-- User can search Address (Street Name or Street #), Subdivision, City, Zip Code or MLS # from the location box.

2-- We get number of matching results for the "Street Name" and "Subdivision" so for now, I have set a limit to return top 10 matching results of each of these location types.

3-- The first matching result would be automatically selected. This is a workaround to force user to select from the matching results since we allow search on multiple location type and it is important for us to associate selected result with the appropriate location type.

4-- The Autocomplete would be activated, that is the matching results would be shown only after user has entered three or more characters.

Also, please note the following points:

1-- I forgot to mention this in earlier comments; I have used same styling for the content label widgets as in the old site and the images are pulled from http://joehaydenrealtor.sierrastatic.com/res/images/sicm/.

2-- The content on the home page is static and I haven't yet included the /shared/global/sicm/content/content_body.asp file in the default.asp file as the content on the home page is quite large and different compared to the content in the template.

3-- The HTML Document type used for the template pages is Strict whereas for the site it was set to use Transitional as a result there were few issues in the quick search box and sidebar display. So, I have updated the HTMLDocType to Strict on the Admin Settings form in CAA and also updated the main pages and blog pages for the same.

4-- We haven't yet updated the search tool links and image/file urls in the pages/posts contents. That is we have not yet replaced /property-search/ with /louisville-mls/ in links and images/files would be pulled from the /userfiles/182/ folder. I think it would be good to update image/file urls at the time of making site live, we can rename /userfiles/182/ to /userfiles/340/ otherwise we will need to copy images/files from old site (182) to new site (340). But please let me know if I should update the search tools links in the pages/posts contents.

Please check these changes and let me know your feedback.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

RE: #32

The auto-complete plugin seems to be working great, thank you. Can you please:

1 - Update the default text of the search box to, "City or Neighborhood or Zip or Address or MLS #"

2 - Update the order of the results returned to be in that order as well. So, city results would be the first returned, then neighborhood, then zip, etc. That way, a neighborhood result would be selected by default rather than an address result, which I think will be the more common use case. Also, a question: if the client wishes to add Area to the list of options (in place of City or in addition to the options already there), would that be a problem?

3 - In the formatting of the options in the results list, can you format them more closely to how they are presented in the chosen drop-down, matching the colors, line-spacing and indentation used there? I believe the Chosen results list formatting is a bit easier to read.

It really seems to be quick at returning results, and the user interface is very intuitive -- nice job!

Regarding the additional points:

1 - That's fine. I am going to be making some further updates in this regard tomorrow.

2 - Yes, I agree it's best to leave that for now. I will ask the client to let us know his wishes there.

3 - Yes, I apologize that I forgot to mention this, but it's fine (and necessary) to use the Strict Doctype. I should have realized this would cause problems for you.

4 - Yes, I agree about waiting to update the links to site assets / photos until we are ready to make the site live, because then we will be able to do it all at once rather than in multiple steps. But, please do go ahead and update the "/property-search/" links to use the new "/louisville-mls/" URL structure.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Also on the JoeHayden site:

1 - Please update the "/louisville-communities/" section filename to "/subdivisions-and-neighborhoods/"

2 - Then, please update the section filenames for the different community sections as follows:

• louisville-homes

• prospect-homes

• oldham-county-homes

• bullitt-county-homes

• shelby-county-homes

• louisville-highlands-homes

• st-matthews-homes

• jeffersontown-homes

• louisville-condominiums

• anchorage-homes

• patio-homes

• spencer-county-homes

• hardin-county-homes

• nelson-county-homes

• oldham-county-condominiums

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Thanks for doing this. I've notified the client about the missing default pages -- I assume he is in the process of adding them, but wanted to double-check. Also, I believe what you have done with the Section Filenames / Section Names so far is correct -- I will let you know if the client has any requests to the contrary.

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have made changes in the site per comment #56. Please note that, I have not removed the previously added testimonials. Please let me know if I should remove the same.

Regarding adding 301 rules for the image links:

Please note that, we haven't yet copied the images to the new site and updated the image links in the page contents. Per our earlier discussion, we had decided to do so at the time of launch. So, if we add the redirect rules now, the images would not be displayed on the new site.

Also, I am not sure if you had a chance to review my response in comment #47 to your question (in comment #46) about merging the new/updated content pages/saved-searches into the new site. As mentioned, it would be quite difficult to merge the contents from the old site into the new site. If you think it would be good to stick to the old site and add new sections into the old site, then we will need to perform following steps in addition to the three steps mentioned in comment #47:

1-- Update the site-id of the newly added pages/saved-searches in the new site (340) to 182

2-- There are four old content pages that have been updated in the new site (340) so we will need to update these content pages in the olds site (182).

3-- Run the script to add community pages and subdivision associations on the old site (182)

I think this would be straightforward and less time consuming then merging contents from the old site into the new site. Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Thanks for doing that.

Actually, the client is in the process of creating these default pages. However, he reports that he is not able to enter a "/" for the Page Filename parameter (it tells him he must enter a value). I'm not sure why that would be -- it must be a permissions setting of some kind -- so, for now, he is creating these pages with the Page Filename of either "homes-for-sale" or "condominiums-for-sale".

If you go into the Content Manager for this site and sort by Last Updated, you'll see the pages he has already created in this way. Can you go through these and update the Page Filename to be just "/", so that they will work as the default pages for these sections and connect with the links you created in the Search by Area box?

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

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have updated the new detail page on both the dev and live sites per comment-59.

I have also made changes in the site per comment-63 and 64.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)