DRListings’ News

Hi there, I’m proud to let you know (specificaly our clients - real estate agents and home owners) that in an attempt to get even more French and Spanish visitors, we added the possibility to enter a brief description in Spanish AND French!

It may seams little at first sight but, when our listings pages are rendered in Spanish or in French the interface was all translated except the brief description of all ten listings. This was making these pages mutlti-language. For SEO it was giving some strange results. From the visitor’s point of view it was not good enough from our point of view. People understand that our web site is primarily an English real estate web site. But since we want to give every visitor the same experience whether their English speaking or not, we had to add that feature.

If you want more info on how to use it efficiently, go to our contact page and ask for support. Our technicien will be glad to give you more information and advices on how to use that new feature.

Cheers!

On the 20th of July, we had a record number of visitors preceded and fallowed by a slowly raising and lowering amount of visitors because of the hurricane Dean. Especially on the 20th 81 visitors were looking for info about the hurricane passing close to the Dominican Republic on its south coast.

Since we fallow our statistics very closely, we were wondering why Read the rest of this entry »

As a first tip in this category I’m going to talk about what’s better from listing multiple apartment from the same building into one or more listings on DRListings.com

From an SEO point of view, it is better to describe all the apartments from an apartment building on Read the rest of this entry »

So here is the default list of search engine that Google Analytics support in its system.

google, yahoo, msn, aol, lycos, ask, altavista, netscape, cnn, looksmart, about, mamma, alltheweb, gigablast, voila, virgilio, live, baidu, alice, seznam, yandex, najdi, aol, club-internet, mama, seznam, search.

Now let say, like us, that some of your visitors are coming from xxx search engine and that you know it because you have access to the stats from your hosting service provider. So according to google, you just have to Read the rest of this entry »

Yes I have been silent here but not on PHP coding and web design.

We have moved our advertising section under osCommerce.

We have created new real estate advertising products and services. Like the DRL Data Core^Lite which is the fastest way for our clients to add their listings to their own web site. There is also a PRO version which is Read the rest of this entry »

If you are connected to a home network or even a little office network that share an internet connection that looks unstable. Try first to close Skype and then read the following article about how Skype can use your bandwidth and block your web access.

Blueprint: Circuit-to-Packet

Entering via UDP, TCP, or even TCP on port 80, Skype is usually very successful at passing typical firewalls.

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I just found this little tool while looking for something else, as usual, and I wanted to share the information with all of you. It is called Google Analytics Manager. It is a Dreamweaver extention and it helps putting the tracking code in all the pages of a given site. And as a bonus, it’s free like the Google Analytics web application. If you want more info, se the PluginLab Product page.

This morning, we have experience an earthquake here in Dominican Republic. I was in front of my computer when the floor started to move under me. It have last a few second and then stopped. So, I started to search for it on the internet to find out its magnitude. I have found it on the IRIS Seismic Monitor web site. You can also see a zoom version of the Caribbeans here. The informations are refreshed constantly.

It is quite usefull and interesting.

Here is a list of all the Addon that were submitted in the Custom Addon - Releases section on the OR forum.

• Addon Delete Site Logs
• Addon Demo for beginners
• Addon Google Maps Geo Coded
• Booking Agent for online reservations
• Client Testimonial with text blurb
• Contact Form Addon
• Featured Listing Viewer
• Field Type URL with Anchor Text
• flash addon additon to PTView
• General Statistics
• Google Maps Addon
• image gallery with lightbox js
• listing view features layout
• Listing view features layout with comma seperated values
• MENUCONFIGuration Addon
• Mouse Over Images
• Multiple Currency Exchange Rates
• Multiple Select Link 2 or 3 level for search
• next_prev template Addons
• Notification/Pruning Addon
• Open House Addon
• Printer Friendly Search Results
• Page404 addon page
• Paypal Addon to Charge for Listings
  Autor’s web site
• PayPal Subscription Addon
  Autor’s web site
• PHPNuke Module
• Revised Google Maps Addon
• RSS Feeds for OR 2.X.X+
• Search by listingID
• Simple Banner Ad Manager
• sitemap addon
  Autor’s web site
• SQL menu addon v1.03
• Template Changer
• URL VTours Ver 2
• User Page
• VieleRETS 1.0.0 Release Candidate Available
• View all agents/users addon
• Watermarks on images
• Welcome User Addon
• YouTube Addon 1.0.0

I will add more text and comments later on.

Just to be sure everybody will know it and also find it, I decided to create this post. So, Yes I have finally released my YouTube Addon. You can find it here on this web site on this page. It was originally made for Property Center a Real Estate agents company located in Sosúa, Dominican Republic. They have agreed with me to release it as an Open Source OR Addon. For more details and documentation follow the above link and for support, come to the Open-Realty Addon support forum on the Open-Realty web site.