Visit the site
Visit the sitePisoaprecio.com is launched as a large-scale property search website with integrated voting capability. The idea is to rival traditional databases with added user interaction.
Users can see feedback about their properties, communicate directly with other users and the website will constantly display popular and well rated content.
Property searching with more integration with the users.
About the project
GOAL 1 - deliver the functionality required for the project.
a) users being able to upload, edit and maintain their properties.
b) users being able to filter and search for different properties within Spain
c) integration with social networks
d) users being able to interact with each other within the website
e) engagement with the content
A combination of views, 5star, sharethis, hierarchical select and message has delivered all the functionality required.
GOAL 2 - a scalable platform
a) multiple users interacting at the same time
b) processing graphic intensive content
c) potential to develop functionality further is website succeeds
Drupal 7 out of the box has provided a great platform allowing a web 2.0 project to function almost immediately. Should the website become successful it also allows for further integration in terms of extended hosting, functionallity and scalability.
GOAL 3 - performance
a) have a fast modern website
We are very happy with Drupals caching system and the core functions so far have allowed for multiple users to simultaneously use the website with no noticable drop in performance. We only have a modest hosting budget and we are very happy with the results delivered by Drupal core with a few module additions.
Why Drupal was chosen
Drupal 7 was chosen for scalability and the ability to deliver a reliable large-scale website with everything ready to go.
Concerns were performance, reliability, development costs and scalability. Drupal was simply the best platform to deliver the final content in a limited timescale without the resources to create and maintain a proprietary system.
Technical Specifications
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
1) - ZEN
We do all our theming with ZEN. Not being expert themers we are extremely happy with the results delivered. The website goes quickly and in our opinion looks beautiful. With a limited budget Zen provides an excellent solution for developers such as us who don't have the resources or PHP knowledge to theme from scratch.
2) - Hierarchical Select / Better Exposed Filters
One of our biggest development issues was finding a user-friendly solution to filter hierarchies. Hierarchical select was a lifesaver. As the database grows we need user-friendly ways of filtering content and a combination of these modules has provided a solution we are very happy with.
3) - ADVAGG /
Decreased page load time by over 50%, anything more need to be said?
4) - Message
Out of the box functionality almost as useful as views. An essential part of any web 2.0 project and seamlessly integrated into Drupal 7. Only drupal provides such complete modules that allow websites to be at the cutting edge with limited development resources.
