Homes.co.za

Change history

  • 20 - 2007-09-14 - Added the Articles section.
  • 19 - 2007-09-02 - Show "n/a" on front page if price or city is empty.
  • 18 - 2007-08-22 - Warn user about listings with no price or city on My Info page.
  • 17 - 2007-07-20 - Improved "Forgot Password" page now lets you change your password
  • 16 - 2007-05-13 - Relisting a property moves it to the front page
    - When relisting a property after it has expired, it will be renewed for another 3 months 
  and be visible on the front page.
  • 15 - 2007-05-08 - added Help page for Agent URL
    - "How-To" page to set up Agent URL, and for buyers to find specific Agent's properties
- added "Learn How" link on main_advert block to go to Agent URL help 
- added 'alt' text to Homes logo: "Return to my search results"
  • 14 - 2007-04-17 - changed logo image
    - added text "The Property site where listing is free!" to the logo image
  • 13 - 2007-04-02 - send welcome email
    - send welcome email on join
  • 12 - 2007-03-30 - added "what's new" block
    - added "what's new" block next to the logo to announce the "agent URL" feature
- changed "agent URL" RewriteRule to allow some special characters in the name
- changed font a bit smaller, change "About" in menu to "What's New?"
  • 11 - 2007-03-29 - minor text changes
    - changed "Stand" type to "Stand / Vacant land"
- changed "Show all properties by this Estate Agency" link the "agency URL"
- changed text input box on Search page for Estate Agency to a drop-down. 
- added a tip to Search using substrings for City/Suburb.
  • 10 - 2007-03-26 - added agency URL feature
    - added Apache RewriteRule to support "agency URL" like www.homes.co.za/Some_Agency
- added hint text to menu links
- added very basic internal statistics page
- added Estate Agency to search criteria
- changed some "what next" links e.g. to add "Show all properties" link on front page and Help
- misc text changes e.g. on join page
  • 9 - 2007-03-21 - added ability to search by Estate Agent and specific user
  • 8 - 2007-03-19 - increased LISTING_DURATION to 9 months; added Cluster and Farm/Smallholding types; added initial Forgot Password page
  • 7 - 2007-03-18 - increased allowable photo size to 500k and auto resize main photo to 640x480
  • 6 - 2007-03-04 - changed meta tags
  • 5 - 2007-02-14 - added postal code to Add/Edit prop screen
  • 4 - 2007-02-06 - can now upload up to 6 photos + added suburb
  • 3 - 2007-01-14 - new search form
  • 2 - 2006-12-19 - show property thumbnails in My Info
  • 1 - 2006-04-24 - first version uploaded