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]

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]

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]

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]

Please place further comments into Basecamp, here:

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

[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)

[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,

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]

Ben,

In verifying front-end sites, I found that some sites like viewlouisvillehomes.com and allhomesinlouisville.com have the FormDetailLinkFromAddress defined in their local functions.asp file ([site-folder]/res/includes/functions.asp). This results in errors in loading search-tools pages; removing the FormDetailLinkFromAddress from the local file fixes the issue. Pls let me know if you encounter such issue or if a client reports similar issues.

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

[Battler45]

Vihang,

It's looking great, nice job.

There does appear to be a small issue with the site map page: http://joehaydenrealtornew.sierrainteractivedev.com/site-map/

Also, there appears to be a formatting issue with the Terms of Use / Privacy Policy page -- http://joehaydenrealtornew.sierrainteractivedev.com/terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy/ -- can you see if you can fix that when you have a chance?

Thanks.

Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

[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,

I have added programming to display rotating testimonials on the home page per comment-48. I have kept the previous testimony for testing purpose. Please check the same and let me know your feedback.

I have also updated the section names and filenames per comment-49.

I am not sure if you had chance to review the autocomplete changes I have made per comment #44 and my thoughts on comment #46. Can you please check the same in comment #47.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Also, can you please make a quick change to the new property listing detail page (both the current version and the updated version that you are working on)? Joe Hayden emailed to say he felt that the photos on the new detail page look a bit blurry -- not in the "view large photos" / overlay view, but in the default photo viewer that is part of the page itself.

I see this being true, and believe it's because we are displaying the "middle" size of photos, which are actually smaller than the size at which we are displaying them, and so need to be enlarged for display on this page.

So, on the new property detail pages, can you update this photo area to pull the large version of the photos rather than the middle version?

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

[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,

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]

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]

Vihang,

I'm sorry to hear you are not feeling well. Please take the time you need to feel better and get some rest, not a problem.

When you are feeling better, regarding the blog posts, this looks good, but perhaps it would be a better fit to mimic the styling of the links in the "Search by Area" box -- so, use the same red arrow as in that case, and the same gray background with 1px white border above and below, but with the same amount of padding as you have in the present implementation.

But, again, please do take the time you need and get some rest. I can work on these things, and there is nothing that can't wait.

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]

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]

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,

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,

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 updated the links in the search by area box. Please note that when I click any of these links, I am redirected to 404 page as we have not yet added default pages for these sections. Please let me know if I should add the same or make an existing page the default page of each of these sections.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

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]

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,

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]

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 made changes in the site per comment-58.

Regarding new blog box, when I set the "li list-style-type" to square, square was not displayed on the home page and on the inner pages it was displayed outside of the blog box (please see the attached image). I spent some time on this but I could not fix the issue so, I have used the same triangle image that we have used in the content label widget (and on communities page). Please let me know if this would be fine.

Please check these updates and let me know your feedback.

Also, I am not feeling well for the last couple of days so I could not spend much time on other open tasks especially on the property details page. I should be able to complete the property details page in next couple of days.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[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]

Ben,

RE #39:

I have updated the default text and the results order accordingly. Yes, It would be possible to add Area or County to the searchable options.

I have also update the formatting of the autocomplete drop-down to match the formatting of the Chosen plugin.

Please note that there was some issue in the autocomplete drop-down display on the search-tools pages in IE 9, most probably due to use of Prototype library on these pages. I looked for possible solutions but could not find any. However, using newer version of jQuery (later than 1.4.2) seems to have fixed this issue so, I have included /property-search/res/includes/jquery/jquery-1.5.1.min.js/ in the /sist/joehayden/clinet_js.asp.

I have also updated /property-search/ with /louisville-mls/ in page contents.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihar,

Thanks for doing this. I am still not feeling well and have not been able to work much the past few days. I hope to be feeling better by Monday, and I will review this in more detail at that time.

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