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.
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| Testimonials |
Free Advertising Offer
Enhanced listings has been opened up and we are now offering a free signup and listing for all homes who add a few paragraphs of text and a couple of images using our web based administration panel.
We hope to get some nice content on the website from this so this is why we have opened it up if you want to sign up please complete the form at this page.
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| Free Webpage |
Behind the Scenes
With our latest release we have been cleaning up some under the hood bug fixes and working on improving our administrative features to try and make our site admin jobs a lot easier.
Major improvements have also been made to the custom CMS system we have allowing us to manage our content better as we all know content is King.
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| Content is King |
Testimonials is going into the final stages of development now then it will be tested and released to the public and we also have the job board coming up.
Better Implementation
We have made some recent improvements to our API by refactoring some of the classes, adding a JSON output writer to complement the XML writer this allows us to use either format for API output by changing the URL suffix for the request.
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| JSON Output |
The old map XML code has been ported over to a new GeoApi module for handling all our map data requests such as the "other homes in this area" feature or local amenities map markers which is used to display local places of interest.
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| XML Output |
Along with these changes we have created some new DTDs which go with our XML API output, there have been multiple bug fixes along with removal of some unneeded code which has been deprecated.
Our hope is that by implementing these changes we can provide data to the public via a uniform simple to use API. This will be ideal for when we release our new testimonials feature which we plan on opening up for public use.
New Homepage Section
Our supplier directory is slowly being populated so we decided to run a promotion on our homepage by adding a new section to the bottom.
We thought it would be beneficial to both us and the supplier to promote the work they have done by adding a quality listing to our system.
You can view Andy's Gramophone Classics supplier listing and we hope to drive contacts to his page. They also have a Facebook page here which shows some pictures of his old records and such so, check it out!!
