New Feature Release: Home Facilities

Care and Nursing Home Facility Lists

Releasing our new add and update home form has been very successful and we have decided to add some more data points to our database. We have complied a list of what we think is a good start, you can see the list at the bottom of this post.

Form

Our form makes use of check boxes for inputting the homes specialisms, activities and facilities we decided that these are still be for multiple choice form fields.

We feel our form is complete now but as always we will be reviewing it in time so we can make sure its up to date and relevant we will also be reviewing both our activities and facilities lists to make sure there is no overlap between the two.

Listing

Our listing pages now have a new tab for displaying the homes facilities list we are considering combining both the activities tab and the facilities tab because they are similar and would also bulk up the pages a bit more rather than a small list on both pages. It also makes it one less click for our visitors so maybe in the future we will implement this.

It is already a popular feature and we have had a submission every day so far so we consider it a success so far and we hope that our visitors and home owners and managers find it a useful tool for them to take advantage of.

Conclusion

If you are a care manager or owner and your home is listed then all you have to do to add your facilities is go to your homes listing page and click the edit homes details link to open the wiki form.

Also I will also remind visitors they are encourage to help add any information we maybe missing for a listing.

Facilities List

Aromatherapy
Assisted Bath
Assisted Shower
Cable TV
Car Park
Cater for Special Diets
Chiropody
Companion Rooms
Dentist
Dining Room
En-suite Bath
En-suite Shower
En-suite Toilet
Garden
Hairdressing
Hydrotherapy
Internet
Jacuzzi
Laundry
Lounge
Massage
Minibus
Nurse Call System
Open Visits
Optician
PassengerLift
Personal Possessions
Pets
Physiotherapy
Purpose Built
Reflexology
Religious Services
Retained or Personal GP
Secure Storage
Sensory Room
Shop
Single Rooms
Stair Lift
Tea and Coffee Making
Telephone Points
Television Points
Wheelchair Access
Wireless Internet

New Feature Release: Galleries

Improved Image Gallery

We have been working hard recently improving our current enhanced listings image support by adding a new gallery page and tab to all enhanced listings allowing home owners to upload five 1Mb images from their browser.

Currently the feature list is as follows,

• Support for main image which is displayed on all enhanced listings tabs.
• Upload five images of your home
• High resolution 1Mb images
• Dedicated gallery page for displaying gallery images
• Spotlight image support for displaying large versions (provided by lighter)
• Aspect ratio preservation on all images

Gallery and Editor

We plan to add support for converting assets into high resolution, medium resolution and thumbnail by using the ImageMagick PHP module.

Gallery Page

You can sign up for one year enhanced listings which costs £50+vat by completing the short form and making payment using Google Wallet all major credit and debit cards are accepted.

Image Spotlight

On a closing note our integration of Double Click for Publishers is progressing well and we hope to be releasing it in the new year, we feel our website has some good placements to offer advertisers and by using DFP we can offer these direct to potential customers.