One of the coolest things about working on a project like Displet is rolling out new features, and seeing fairly dramatic performance gains. Â I’m happy to report our latest revision, dubbed “Liquid Swords,” has produced some pretty nice results:
Speed Gains: We’ve known that our search was a bit on the slow side, so we front burnered speed about 2 months ago. Â Because fresh ideas are always a good thing, we brought in a third party consultant to take a look at our code base. Â Marcus did a killer job & identified a bottleneck that we subsequently fixed. Â On our latest revision, we cut down load time by more than 50%. Â We knew this was a noticeable gain when people, well, noticed. Â We’ve received more than a few unprompted emails saying “Looks like you guys sped up the system!”
Login Light Window Revision: We recommend that our clients ask for registration as soon as a visitor attempts to view property details. Â In the past, if a visitor clicked on a property detail, the light window immediately launched. Â Now, if they click on a property detail, the detail page loads first & the light window launches on top of it. Â This way, the visitor sees that, yes, there are plenty of goodies behind the light window, so they are more apt to enter their information. Â Check it out here: http://demo.displet.com/residentials/detail/117036
Property Detail Page Customization: We’ve always been able to control styles on every page, but we can now control elements on the property detail page (as well as the tool bar.) Â These are first in a line of making every element on every page customizable – similar in function to WordPress. Â What prompted this was a NY agent asking why they needed to display “Pool: Y/N” when no properties in NY have pools…which is a very valid question. Â This feature will also allow us to easily add elements to the property detail page. Â I think it’s nice, for instance, to include area amenities & tax information. Â Now you can! Â (Please note that this will require basic HTML knowledge.)
There were a few more features we’ve added that I won’t go into here (mostly under the hood,) but it’s safe to say that we’re very pleased with this revision!
~Eric & Braxton
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