Work Order for LECV2 (IET Real Estate)

[bnicolas]

May I please have a price/time estimate on:

1)
changing the font to avant garde (primary) verdana (secondary)
(in that order based on users browser/system font availability)

What font would you like to change? Just the content area?
15 minutes design if just the content area, OR, 30 minutes design if you want to modify other areas of the site.
All font used anywhere on the site
If we're changing the fonts everywhere, even the graphics, this would be a 2 hour design estimate.

updating the CSS that controls all my html form fields, to modernize the look n feel
i.e. - http://www.ietrealestate.com/contact/

Not sure I understand from the example. Do you just want to update the colour of the form borders and buttons? 1 hour design
form borders, buttons, and font used in forms and entered by user
1 hour design stands.

2)
IDX Search
Insert a 'MLS Data Feed Last updated: XX:XX AM/PM' time stamp at bottom of every page in domina/idx directory (maybe easiest to insert in footer area somewhere)
Done as of 3/20/09, but can you move this to right above the "Back to Search Results" button please
15 mins programming

3)
A snippet with some pre-defined market average statistics. I'd want something I could put into the pages I set up as my featured
communities. I think someone from REW told me this was something you guys were working on as a standard product anyway. (I saw you did something like this already for http://www.realsourcebrokers.com )

these stats: would be nice for each of 3 main property types sfr, condo, multi-unit 2-4 units (exclude 5+ unit properties)
# of actives
avg DOM actives
avg listing price actives
price/sq ft actives

# of pendings
avg DOM pendings
avg listing price pendings
price/sq ft pendings

(last 120 days)
# of closed
avg DOM closed
avg selling price closed
price/sq ft closed

# of expireds
avg listing price of expireds
price/sq ft expireds
<br>

# of REO's
# of Short Sales

I imagine this layed out in some sort of grid/table with 3 columns 1 for each property type
updated 2/18/09

For this we'll have to make changes to our update script and create scripts to generate the stats. Likely would take minimum of 10hrs programming - then you'll need a couple hours (2hrs) of design for the display.


4) upload csv/excel
we will make our data files for upload the same format you provide for your "download csv" files, these lists will sometimes only have an e-mail field, sometimes only a name and tel #

2hrs Programming.

5)
IDX Search
search by address should have same fields as search by city but it should have st name and st # fields (seperate fields) Needs javascript validation (i.e. user can't enter text for street # or zipcode fields, 5 digits required for zip code field, property type required, city required (for speed but all cities should be allowable selection) )
1) City choices should be presented in same way as 'by City' tab
2) Add "Property Features" parameters section
3) Change tab name to "By Address/Zip Code"
4) Remove "by Zip Code" tab (redundant)

15 mins programming to have match - the programmer assigned to your project can address issues with the address search.

6)
IDX Search
on top of or below cities add "select all" "unselect all" javascript links

1hr Programming - 30 mins design.

7) change main nav text link on capital & enterprises template sites to "IET Blog" and point to blog on dev45 (IET Real Estate). I mistakenly thought each site had own blog...

Dev57 already has a "blog" main nav link - you'll want us to change that (and its destination) - but what about dev52? Will one of those 3 links change? OR are we adding a fourth?

Dev57 change text of main nav link to "IET Blog" point it to blog on dev45, its there now yes but it doesn't point to anything Dev52 add a 4th button and point to blog on dev45

8)
* dev45
Main Nav changes:
Home
Buy
submenu 1 "Get Pre-approved" link to dev57/apply-financing.php
submenu 2 "Find Property" => domain/idx/
Sell
submenu 1 "IET Marketing Plan" => list_mktg_plan.php
submenu 2 "Request Consultation" => req_consult.php
Blog
Careers
remove "Communities", its already on home page 3 times and "About Us" I'm moving that below

You should be able to ask Kim about doing this for you. I believe it's included. Please cc me on your email to him.

9)
IDX Search
radio button group
add "All Sale Types" (default selection)
add "Bank Owned Only" (REO property)
add "Short Sales Only"
add "Bank Owned and Short Sales Only" (or use checkboxes and allow user to select both)
add "No Bank Owned or Short Sales"

10)
IDX Search - Property Features section
I'd like to add the following fields to allow users to search by

only if condominium prop type selected otherwise greyed out
HOA dues
complex name

only if residential income selected otherwise greyed out
# of units

11)
IDX Search - Property Features section
can we make the Property Features text boxes for price and Min. Square Feet (Building) (2 text fields min/max) instead of dropdowns
- dropdowns limiting, people often get qualified for a specific amount based on their income and want to be able to search for up to exactly that amount
- for min beds/bath dropdown ok, just make last choice >7, instead of 8 specifically
- Min. Square Feet (Lot) and Built after should be textfields where user can enter # but they don't need max fields, just min
- add javascript data validation to ensure user data entered makes sense
- Please apply standard original formatting that this section comes with per the original dev example (ask Craig for details, I can't remember which dev you use to demo LEC2)


4hrs programming. - 1.5hr design.
This would cover the items listed under #9, #10, #11
It would check for numbers in the hoa and units - words in the complex name.

12)
IDX Search
when I click "back to search form" user should go back to last the last parameters entered should be saved

So more of a "refine search" - 2hrs programming.

13)
IDX Search
count button/field for quicker results?


added 3/21/09

The way you have it setup now where the feature auto calculates when focus is removed from field may not be intuitive for user though. If you could put a box down there with "Result Count" button that the user would have to click to run I think would be much more intuitive.

Also the feature doesn't work when all cities are selected for the reason I think we were speaking of earlier. I assume that will be resolved with the new way you are going to handle behavior of "select all" (gray out all choices and use post).



2hrs programming. 30 mins design We would add an additional button on the search form that if clicked would display the count of the listings that match that search.

14)
property type and features filter at bottom of city search should be under every search type in same format
The property types and features filtering options should be formatted the same in the same spot, located at the bottom and the search button should be in the same place, I'd like to keep this section consitent to optimize user experience. Also see #11 for formatting for these sections.

30 mins programming- Map search remains the same. Also on the MLS number search it might not be the best to have those options there.

15) done as of 3/21/09
Min. Square Feet and Min Acres are redundant (lose min acres and put Min. Square Feet drop down in its place)

15 mins programming

16)
can you make the map search default to no listings selected until the user hits a search button, I don't like the way you come to the page and it just hangs before user does anything, this is a turn off and degrades user experience

ideally I'd like user to be able to draw a polygon or circular radius over exact area they want to search on map (I can show you example of this over the phone if you'd like) but I have a feeling this may be prohibitively expensive

had phone conversation w/ mike griffiths 3/20/09 re: details of improvements I want for this feature

Sure - change it to have an update button - 1hr programming - would need some design to modify the layout so there is room for a submit button. 30 mins design.

As far as the "polygon or circular radius" - would something like this work? http://www.propertyinsantacruz.com/idx/map/ - If you click the "Zoom in" button - you can draw a box on the map and it will zoom into that area - takes about 2hrs programming to implement and test that out.


17) done as of 3/21/09
IDX Search
make selection of property type mandatory, popup error message if search attempted without selecting property type

15 mins programming

[bnicolas]

also can someone summarize the main difference between LEC2 & 3 for me?

From what I can see it mainly looks aesthetic

Thanks,

Ben

[bnicolas]

disregard last question about lec 2 v 3 found answer here

http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/...rey/7120/show/ in post from morgan

[Gerry]

I've added comments above.

[Aaron]

Hello,

I've added some estimates - I'll get the remainder over to you as soon as possible.

Thank you,

[bnicolas]

Just acknowledging what you've input so far. I'm waiting to receive estimates on everything before I commit to what I'm going to move forward with in case I have to prioritize due to going over budget.

[bnicolas]

let's put a limit of 250 on any query results to speed things up

i.e. - user searches for all active SFR's in Whittier (there are 519 actives as of 2/2/09)

lets cap the records retreived at 250 which should make searching much zippier

the results should say something like 519 Search Results (Showing Max 250). Displaying Results 1-20 (if 20/page is set in snippet)

any search returning more than 250 records needs to be refined anyway

this will work nicely with the count button I ordered.

[Aaron]

Hello,

I have added more estimates in purple to your post.

Thank you,