Monday, 14 April 2014

New Alternate Domain Name for The Care Homes Directory

Going biz

The Care Homes Directory can now be accessed using a new domain name which is www.carehomes.biz this should redirect to our main domain using a 301 redirect using the Apache rewrite module.

Friday, 11 April 2014

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.




Saturday, 5 April 2014

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.


News page screen shot highlighting the similar stories list
Similar News Articles

Thursday, 27 March 2014

New Feature Release: Listing Page Mashups

New Look Listings

Our listing pages now have a new look which is similar to a mash up we have removed all the tabs from the page and combined them all onto one page. The rational for this was everything seemed a click away and we were diluting our content by making the visitor browse different pages.

This way all the content for the care or nursing home is in one place and are no longer a click away which is how it should be. We hope this change is useful to our visitors mainly and we have a few more changes we would like to make in order to make it even easier to access our content.

Examples

Kestrel Grove Nursing Home
Bel-Air Residential Care Home
Advertise Your Care Home Here

Screen Shots






Tuesday, 18 March 2014

New Feature Release: Advanced Search

Search for Power Users

The latest release has added an advanced search function for our visitors allowing them granular search of our database we hope this will appeal to both visitors and power users of our services.

You can now search for homes and agencies in the UK by first part of postcode, town or county. To search for multiple postcode/towns/counties you can separate each one with a space.

For the initial version we have implemented some basic operators allowing you to control your results. Operators are currently only type: and room: but this allows you to filter your results even more.

Our home page now contains an advanced search widget making it easy for visitors to use the service and letting them know we now have a better search.

We still offer our site search which uses a different approach to the advanced search because it crawls the site and provides search for all page content the advanced search only searches homes and agencies in the database.

Below are a collection of example search words which are inside the yellow boxes we hope to add more operators and also filtering in future releases of our advanced search.


Search Examples

Find all homes in watford and bushey
watford bushey

Find all nursing and care homes in hertfordshire
hertfordshire type:nursing type:care

Find all homes in hertfordshire with 50 to 100 rooms
hertfordshire room:50-100

Find all care homes in hertfordshire with 30 to 100 rooms
hertfordshire type:care room:30-100