Dear Service Providers,
I need an enhanced replica (copy) of this website [login to view URL] with sidebar in the style of this site [login to view URL]
Front-End Features
• Basic database search by location, transport, schools, min/maximum price, number of bedrooms, property type etc (i.e. [login to view URL] and [login to view URL]
• Mapsearch with google maps integration (info supplied by google) (i.e. [login to view URL] )
• Advanced search option with administrator defined search fields (e.g., rent/sale, listing id, property type, location, price, property size, list date, city, bedrooms, bathrooms, furnished/unfurnished, garden, parking). (i.e. [login to view URL] )
• Browse and sort the results by Price, Location, Bedrooms, Type [login to view URL] or Google mapview sort/filter
• Re-sort location and property category results by price, property size, list date, city, beds, and baths.
• Signup/Registration for tenants, private landlords, agents, affiliates with email verification. Tenants can save ‘searches’ and private landlords/agents to manage their account/properties/listings
• Post an ad (renting) as a private landlord or agent and upload pictures (i.e. [login to view URL] ‘post an ad’
• Form submission to Email all Agents, Send to list of Agents, receive list of Agents in Area (i.e. [login to view URL])
• Publish featured ads on the home page (i.e. [login to view URL] )
• Ability to contact the landlords/agents who posted a specified ad through the website
• When a seller has posted an ad an account is created for him/her, he/she may login after with it and make changes in his profile, ads and personal settings. Settings are automatically forwarded via email.
• Advertiser signup for ad space in Directory/Classifieds page (similar to [login to view URL]))
• Multiple integrated payment gateways such as PayPal, etc.
• Pre-purchase of credits system for making payments by purchasing credits in advance instead of being redirected to a payment gateway for every purchase
• Website contact form
Back-End Office Features
• Easy administration interface with multi administrators back office allowing the possibility to create multiple admin users and assign them different access rights for system resources (similar to [login to view URL])
• Multiple property advertising package functionality allowing the administrator to create differently priced packages for sellers (e.g., regular listing, featured listing, bulk listings, or purchase of credits)
• Ability to select which payment gateways are in use or easily install new ones.
• Ability to set different rates for credits depending on the chosen payment method
• Monitor, publish and manage the ads posted by the users
• Consult, delete and modify the private sellers, agents and affiliates accounts
• Add/Delete property type categories and locations
• Add new pages to the website (and delete/activate/deactivate them)
• Edit the content of the pages with a powerful WYSIWYG editor
• Set custom extensions to be executed for selected pages
• Unique interactive help functionality, right click on a page or element and get immediately help information for it
• Ability to easily edit/update the master site template and/or install different templates for the website
• Extend the application with ease with new back-end modules and application extensions written in the future
• Use standard, multiple levels and customized predefined menus, which are automatically generated according to the website structure
• Manage the URLs of the pages on the website, for example edit search engine friendly URLs
• Cross browser WYSIWYG editor to edit the website pages content
• Define custom template tags and set custom extensions to be executed for them
• Create custom server side forms, like Contact pages or product information request forms, with and integrated WYSIWYG forms designer
• Consult the data sent by users through the published forms on the site
• See statistics and charts for the visits of the website
• Optimize the site for search engines, set custom titles, meta keywords and description for the pages, check the queries that the visitors used in Google to find the website
• Check search engines index report
• See search engines popularity report for a selected page
• Consult history for login/log outs to the Back office application
Must have Features
• Google - The site will be embedded with tracking code to facilitate the use of Google Analytics to measure and optimise the site. Google Analytics will also be used to assist Google Adwords Campaigns. I would also like the ability to use the site with Google’s Business Solutions and Webmaster tools.
• Multiple Browser Functionality and Standards - The site will display correctly and will re-size where required on all popular browsers and versions currently in significant use. The site should use CSS for both formatting and layout. The site must meet W3c HTML and CSS standards and must be designe with accessibility in mind for both humans and search engines. The site may be targeted at minimum display size of 1024x768.
• Search Engine Optimization - The site must be search engine friendly and designed using effective page titling and url naming. Keywords, description, content-type and title meta-tags should be present for every page. HTML coding should be error free, succinct and W3c compliant. No search engine unfriendly Flash or JavaScript navigation menus please.
• Hosting - The site should not be dependent on any server side technology. The site will be portable between Linux and Windows servers at the hosting provider of the clients choice
Desired Features
• Instant Alerts - email notifications for users as soon as new properties matching user search criteria are listed (Would require user signup)
• RSS news publishing of property listings through individual category and/or location feeds
Requests for Proposals
• Fixed Price Design and Build
• Any optional components should be clearly defined and priced.
• Please do not bid on this project if you have not first taken the time to thoroughly familiarize yourself with [login to view URL] and [login to view URL] and are confident that you can duplicate it successfully.
• Please provide links to sites that you have designed and built that demonstrate your ability to meet the requirements of this specification
• Please identify any dependencies on myself
Hosting Costs
Please quote for monthly hosting costs for a provider based in the UK. Please also provide information on any hosting requirements so that we can choose to host the web server/database elsewhere.
Support and Maintenance Fees
We do not envisage any ongoing support and maintenance fees.
Sources and Copyright
The Copyright of the website and all its content shall remain with the client (Buyer). At the end of the project all source files, libraries, assets etc. will be delivered to the client (Buyer).