Some Markup Changes
We have been making some small changes to the website recently to try and structure the markup at bit better and to move some content to make it less prominent and further down the page markup.
The top site heading The Care Homes Director has now been changed to a <h1> as it should be the main header for the banner section. It seems a valid thing to do since we are using the HTML5 doctype, and there is a good article covering it here.
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| HTML Markup |
Bootnote
Soon we will be releasing an improved version of our care groups scheme allowing enhanced listing users to manage their care groups branch information and also the listing page for their care group. We hope to have an initial first version release coming soon.
More Exposure
Entries in the supplier directory are now being shown on our town pages for their area giving more exposure for our suppliers to the public and home owners.
We have some more improvements to come through on the supplier directory soon, if you are a supplier in the care sector please join up for FREE using this form.
Rewarding Quality Content
Our latest release includes functionality to allow our site administrators to turn an enhanced listing into a Gold Listing with the aim to make them stand out from the crowd.
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| Gold Listing Seal |
Gold listings will be determined by the quality of the home or agencies enhanced listing page, to become a Gold Listing you must be an enhanced listings member which is FREE you can sign up here.
What Gold Listings receive*
- Listed on homepage of website (this may be on fair rotation)
- Promoted to top of listings for your town page
- Gold logo indicating your page is a Gold Listing
- Added to Region pages
- Displayed in local towns (more exposure)
What makes a Gold Listing
- Quality Content (body text)
- Complete Gallery with 5 images
- Complete home profile information
- Activities and facilities list
- Vacancy and bed numbers
- Social Media links
- Contact email (not displayed)
- Your website URL
If your listing has these qualities it will be made a Gold Listing by one of our Administrators in time although if you would like to apply to make it a Gold Listing just login and click the account tab and choose which home you want to apply with in the drop down and click the apply gold listing button and your request will be reviewed.
The reason we made these changes is that it allows our visitors to know the homes which are making an effort to provide them with all the information they need to make informed decisions concerning your home or agency, it makes you look good to visitors compared to a home with only a basic listing.
Boot Note
Progress is still being made with the job board and we are hoping to be releasing this service soon for both homes and nursing professionals.
We also have some more features being added to the supplier directory which you can join for free if you are a care sector supplier by following this link.
* Not all functionality is currently available as this is an initial release.
New Release
We have been working hard improving our supplier directory and we now have support for scaled thumbnail images using the same code we use for our enhanced listing service.
Page loading time has been decreased so there is no waiting for the page to load. Some of the code has been cleaned up and improved upon and we have run some tests to check everything is working OK.
This is our second main release for The Supplier Directory and we hope the improvements make our user experience better and that there are more releases to come.
You can sign up for a free listing by completing the form at this page.
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.
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| Care Groups |
