Real estate site

[lennon]

Hi guys I'm looking for some advice from some seasoned CMSers.

I've got to do a real estate website that behaves a bit like this http://www.mcgannproperties.com (a static site I did)

as in I need a thumbnail and description and then a detail page.

Whats the best way to do this?

I was thinking (without having looked at them) the cataloger or one of the numerous image galleries. Are these suitable? If an image gallry, which would you recommend - there seems to be a good few.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

[Dr.CSS]

the news module would be a good way to do it..
put the picture in the summary and the '5 BED DETACHED RESIDENCE' as the name of the article will be a link to detail page
make a mockup for you i may...

  mark

[lennon]

Cheers Mark - great idea.

That would probably do it. Is it possible to have each news summary to appear in a list? So each new "summary or property" is in a tag?I assume its not just case of changing the news templates or is it?

[Dr.CSS]

unstyled the news summaries are listed like  http://www.multiintech.com/index.php?page=blog
ignore the blog part just a name for that page, you can put your news articles in categories and only show the category you want on the page with {cms_module module="news" category="whateveryounamethecategory"} such as category="southhampton" in the edit page content edit box..
you can make a new summary template and call it with {cms_module module="news" category="whateveryounamethecategory" summarytemplate="thenameoftemplate.tpl"} it has to be in the 'News' module... path = modules/News/templates  folder, using FTP client. make new template.. copy original paste into notepad or your preffered editor, i use the free PSPad editor it handles a lot of formats, mutilingual, make changes and save as "thenameoftemplate.tpl"... then FTP to site..

    mark

[lennon]

That all sounds fine. I assume that if I change the "div" to "li" that should do the trick?

Code: Select all

<!-- Start News Display Template -->
{foreach from=$items item=entry}

<div class="NewsSummaryLink">
{$entry->titlelink}
</div>


{if $entry->summary}
	<div class="NewsSummarySummary">
		<p>{eval var=$entry->summary} {$entry->morelink}</p>
	</div>

{else if $entry->content}

	<div class="NewsSummaryContent">
		{eval var=$entry->content}
	</div>
{/if}

{/foreach}
<!-- End News Display Template -->

[Dr.CSS]

well the reason for all the is so you can move or/and style each part, this is a styled page i was able to move things around and style them using the for each one....

http://www.multiintech.com/index.php?page=blogger

  mark

[lennon]

Yeah trying to get the news summary to float left or put it in a an inline list but its not having it. Think this is a CSS issue more than anything else. Will put my head down and see what I can do.

Thanks Mark

[titti]

Hi,
I also need to do an real estate site and I want to use cmsms 
To present the objects with  nwes is a good idea but i just asking me how to do if the backend user want to have a list with the features, of a house or flat or whatever, he want to put in the details.
Is it possible to realise this by implenting a template in the detail of the news module?
thanx 

[Dr.CSS]

news has to edit boxes when you add 'article' top is for summary, gives summary with a [More] link at bottom to go to full page, detail, view of 'article'
next box is detail, will show when you clik [More]
these things can be mixed around by calling custom templates {cms_module module="news" summarytemplate="nameofyourtemplate.tpl"  detailtemplate="nameoftemplate.tpl"} and other parameters explained in the News Help link in the Extensions » Modules page...

    mark

[titti]

Hi mark,
I already checked it out with the templates but what i'm looking for is to have something like to put up an pattern similar to the cataloger module. This pattern i want it appears in the detail from the news in the backend of course so the user just need to put the paramters he need

[KoalaBlue]

This looks like it might suit what I need.

In the NEWS module, is it possible to :

1. put a border around each article which appears on the news summary [rather than a border around the whole lot]

and

2. put an image in the 'summary' view [main real estate listing page] which is then expanded when 'click for more info' takes the viewer to the News Content page

and

3.  to shorten the URL of the news items?  my client needs to print these on flyers - way too long e.g.:
http://www.your-website-name.coo/index. ... eturnid=66


Of course I could suggest using TinyUrl.com or SnipUrl.com, but I'd rather try to fix it in CMSMS

Any thoughts, anyone?

[Dr.CSS]

1) If you are using the default calls in the template, , then .NewsSummary {border: 1px solid #000} will give each item a 1px black, #000, border...

2) By expanded you mean like a thumbnail size in 'summary' then bigger image in 'detail', you may have to put the bigger image in 'Content' and not show summary, don't think there is any way to make it change in the summary to large view after click to 'detail' view...

3) There is supposed to be a patch to make better looking news links, http://www.your-website-name.coo/news/5/33 or someting like that instead of the long string...

[KoalaBlue]

thank you Mark - this helps a lot!

with the thumbnails I may have to use a different idea - the mini content block you mentioned recently, just type the jpg name, surround it with javascript so it enlarges - and then work out how to do similar in the expanded 'news' pages;  will see how that goes

with the urls:

3) There is supposed to be a patch to make better looking news links, http://www.your-website-name.coo/news/5/33 or someting like that instead of the long string...

I would love to be able to change the word 'news' in the url to whatever I liked - I've seen a site doing something like I'd like to be able to do, and their real estate pages are written like this:

http://www.your-website-name.coo/[b]property.php?ID=65[/b]

so i'm not sure which cms they use or if there's another solution out there for real estate which could be incorporated into cmsms

[Dr.CSS]

The News module can be changed to be another name, I did it before to make Blog module, you have to go thru every file in the News module and change the word "news" to whatever you want, be aware of upper and lower case instances, very sensitive....

[KoalaBlue]

thanks Mark!  I will have a look and see if i can locate the files, then I will document where I had to change the word 'news'

it's worth a shot ...

unless someone comes up with a quick and easy solution!