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.

Simplified Enhanced Listing Signup Form

Making Signup Easier

Recently we had to move over from Google Checkout to Google Wallet for our card payment processing so we decided that it would be an ideal time to review our enhanced listing sign up form.

We feel that our new form is simpler, quicker and easier to use allowing our visitors and customers to apply for their enhanced listing with the minimal hassle, combined with our new Google Wallet integration we feel it is a vast improvement.

Once you have purchased an enhanced listing you can add further ones direct from your panel via a browser making adding more establishments to your account even simpler.

Enhanced Listing Sign Up

The Care Homes Directory Google Wallet Support

Card Payment for Enhanced Listings

We are happy to announce the completion of our Google Wallet integration meaning we now have improved support for credit and debit card payments.

You can sign up for a single years enhanced listings for £50+vat using your credit or debit card allowing instant access to your listings panel.

Google Wallet Payment

Once you have signed up you can access our listings panel to edit your listings description, upload an image and more. Below is a screen shot of our online editor which is similar to a word processor that many users are familiar with.

Listing Editor

In the coming months we plan on adding gallery support for multiple images of your home, a job listings section for you to publicise any jobs vacancies. We get quite a few emails regarding jobs so we felt this might improve their experience on our website.

Conclusion

We feel Google Wallet is a vast improvement upon Google Checkout and by porting our platform over to them for our card processing will allow us to handle payments with the minimal of hassle.

Implementing our Double Click for Publishers integration has begun and soon we will be able to offer our customers customised site wide or specific advertising using a familiar system (DFP).

This will also allow us to sell our ad space via Google adwords and other advertising networks. We are excited at the possibilities and opportunities which this will offer our customer and users, especially when tightly coupled with our existing advertising platform and card handling systems.