By Ocularconcepts on

The REO Industry Directory is a place where asset managers and REO companies meet REO agents. The concept is simple yet powerful. REO agents get a featured membership on the directory and are displayed prominently when an asset manager searches for agents within a 30 mile radius of their service area. The website identifies the location of the website visitor too and if they "allow" sharing of their location, the map changes focus to their city/metro and displays the Featured REO agents serving their area.

Ocular Concepts (re)designed this website to focus on giving the Featured Members the best return for the membership. We redesigned the website with a focus on asset managers and REO agents - the two main audience who would be using this system. We also developed city specific landing pages for 50 most popular cities in USA. The user can search for their city on the All Cities page too(http://www.reoindustrydirectory.com/agent-by-city). Our web designers made it compelling enough for the visitors to take the next steps on the website through well placed calls to action.

Drupal was chosen as the content management system and we made the footer editbale for adding new static pages to the website. We also developed a Drupal powered blog which was custom designed and integrated. The website integrates with Ubercart 2 to process recurring featured memberships on the website. It communicates with the PayPal Website Payments Pro API to set recurring subscriptions on the admin. Upon receiving the payments, the basic members automatically become Featured ones. Using Drupal, we also provided admin the ability define the search range for Featured and basic membership. This was integrated with the Google Geolocation API v 2.

Here is a list of modules used in the REO Industry directory web development project:

  • CCK
  • Blog
  • Date/Time
  • ImageCache
  • Meta Tag (SEO)
  • Page Title (SEO)
  • XML Sitemap
  • TagCloud
  • Ubercart
  • Paypal
  • Recurring payment
  • Wysiwyg Editor
  • Custom modules for Google Maps API

Project Case Study: http://www.ocularconcepts.us/blc/casestudies/reo-industry-directory/

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

end user’s picture

end user commented

That's actually a pretty nice looking site and the front page layout is good also, didn't have spend any time trying to figure out what I should be doing.

One thing that I can see being a problem is the pop up window. Maybe I'm just too old but I always kill all pop up especially ones that ask to share my location info. The window to me also looks like a security warning window more than something that is needed for the site.

Did you have to do anything custom to Ubercart?

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Ocularconcepts commented

Future Assassin,

This website tracks the location of the website visitor and shows the REO agents who are in their vicinity. Due to privacy reasons, all the browsers ask the visitors to allow and disallow the location tracking.

Ubercart was played with a lot. we spent days customizing Ubercart intelligently. If you see closely, the website sells a certification program and a Bank List too along with the directory membership. If the visitor is already a Paid Member, they get discount on these products. Even if Paid Membership is in your basket, you get a discount. This logic was custom programmed in Ubercart. We also provisioned for removing the digital download limits as the client requested this. The pricing logic was made in sync with the Paid Membership logic and it auto sets membership levels based on whether the credit card was charged or not (by PayPal Website Payments Pro).

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phpsharma commented

Hi,

Great work done!. Its amazing to see this using Drupal.
If you can post more technical aspects of development that will be of great help.

Thanks,
sharma