Listing Manager Web Application: Overview & Agent Documentation
In: Portfolio
24
Jun
2009
Above: the original documentation / presentation for agents. The live presentation covered use of the web application and best practices for online promotion of their clients’ listings. For best results, use the full screen button to view the slideshow.
Heavily modified component of Joomla! CMS
Provides real estate professionals with quick “listing sites” and management of their listings.
Front-end technologies include PHP, HTML, CSS, Flash, Ajax running on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP back-end.
Interesting UI components include:
- time saving multiple file upload (via Flash) bypassing browser’s single file upload mode.
- automatic integration of YouTube listing videos
- rich text editor for user input
- visually attractive, sophisticated Flash mortgage calculator
- automatic Google Maps interactivity
- javascript slideshow in lightbox with shadow overlay
- Ajax user contact form
- agent backup with one click zip and download
- 1 click sharing and promotion via integration of social bookmarking tool AddThis
- optimized content delivery following best pratices guidelines of YSlow and Google Page Speed
- combined, minified, and cached CSS & JavaScript using minify & YUI comprosser, sprited images, and lazy loading of specific components
- time saving automatic fetching, parsing, and form populating based on single unique identifiers
- Separate administrative and agent views
- Ajax autocomplete fields
- Tags: AJAX, Documentation, Flash, Forms, Google Maps, JavaScript, PHP, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Slideshow, YUI