New Feature Release: Care Groups

Grouping Homes Together

We have improved our data set by adding support for care groups this allows us to group homes by its owners, this supplements the type of ownership data we have.

You can find the main care groups page by following this link there is not much there at the moment but we will be adding to it as we go.

As usual we plan on improving this dataset and also make our offering in this area better than it currently is.

Care Groups

New Feature Release: Home Testimonials

Rating Care and Nursing Homes

Today we have release the first version of our home testimonials so residents and their families can add their thoughts on the service the home provides. Anyone can submit a testimonial for the home although they are all reviewed by an administrator before being made live on the website.

If you would like to submit a new testimonial its a simple as visiting the homes listing page and clicking the show form link in the testimonial section of the page.

Our hope is to open up the data from these testimonials via a public API so homes can display our testimonials simply and/or any other uses.

Testimonials

New Feature Release: Recently Updated Care and Nursing Homes

Homepage Listings

We felt that it would be good for our visitors and home owners if we rewarded owners who keep their listing up to date by placing their listing on our homepage. We though that the last five updates should be shown at the bottom of the content area.

You can update a homes listing information by clicking the edit homes details link which is located under the homes contact information this has the advantage that the homes information will pre-populate the form.

New homes can be added by completing this form and once the information has been reviewed by one of our administrators will be made public and displayed to our visitors.

We have found our new and update home feature has been very successful and we have only had two junk submissions so far which is quite a good rate, our admin tools make it simple to remove these entries and they are very obvious to the eye.

Soon we will be release a new service for allowing homes or care related companies to post job vacancies on our site and we plan on tying it in with our top nurses product we also have some good ideas for features.

New Feature Release: Similar News Articles

Read Similar Articles

Our latest feature release has added support for displaying similar news articles allowing our visitors to read any article which matches the keywords for the current news article. All our articles have a set of tags allowing us to search the database for matches to those keywords.

We hope this will help promote our other articles better  and allow visitors to keep current with news specific to a certain subject.

Similar News Articles

New Feature Release: Improved Saved Homes Lists

Improved Saved Care and Nursing Home List

After the successfully release of our new saved homes list we have improved upon the current offering by adding more data to the comparison table and adding the telephone number to the bottom home list.

You can click the link to call the home and if a suitable handler is found it will use that program to make the call so if you use a SIP phone you can call them directly from your PC. We use tel: prefix inside the href of the a tag which indicates to modern browsers that it is a telephone number.

We have added more rows to the comparison table so it now shows a homes specialisms in a quick easy to read format. We have red x to convey it is not offered and a green tick to show the service is offered.

For icons we discovered a nice set of free open images which you can find at this site. We are currently considering moving our icon set over to theirs so we can standardise our images making them look more uniform and consistent.

Our hope is that these improvements help our visitors make a decision between a list of candidate homes.

Saved Home List

New Feature Release: Bed Vacancies

Available Bed/Room Number

Now you can update the number of vacancies at your home using the edit provider form under the my data tab. If your home has no vacancies you can leave it empty or set it to zero otherwise set it to the number of rooms that are available for residents.

You can also set the total rooms your home offers this can help give visitors to your listing an impression of the homes size.

Edit Room/Bed Numbers

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.

New Feature Release: Home Activity List

List of Activities

We have a new page for our enhanced listings where they can edit a list of activities which are provided by the home for residents.

This is available to all Enhanced Listing customers and we also hope to allow providers to edit their activity list for free in the future.

Our hope is to slowly build some extra data from our listings with the aim of giving even more information to our visors and in turn improving their experience.

You can sign up for a 12 month enhanced listing for only £50 +vat using our new sign up form which includes support for Google Wallet making payment convenient.

Once you have logged in you can access the edit provider page this is were you can control your homes activities, specialisms, social media and other data.

Activities Screen Shot