By richygecko on

Just want to say thanks to all that helped me get this out. Also thanks to those who wrote the great modules and themes and maunals that I used oh so often. Though we are not finished and have a TON of work ahead of us we have launched a skeleton beta to get some feed back before we begin adding more functions and features. Please have a look and let me know what you think. I will be more than happy to hear from the drupal community. Thanks again to all.

Snowworkers.com :: Where will you work this winter?

Is a new Ski / Snowboard / Mountain related job site. We are currently offering free listings for jobs for employers and resume posts for employees.

http://www.snowworkers.com

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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rlibson’s picture

rlibson commented

nice and clean, good luck

now to get some traffic

I would suggest turning on clean urls and make sure that node urls are keyword strong.

ie. instead of http://snowworkers.com/?q=jobs use /searchjobs
etc.

do you have an easy trackable way for users to contact the employers?

richygecko’s picture

richygecko commented

Thanks for the comments and suggestions, At the moment employees use the apply for this position button at the bottom of each job post. We are hoping to add some tracking and statistics for each employer. I.E. how many times this job has been viewed, applied for etc.

jwolf’s picture

jwolf commented

Nice clean layout and there's some great functionality.
Job well done for your first Drupal site.

It would be really great if you would posted some details about how you created some of the features of the site, as I'm sure others would benefit from your experience.

I'm interested to know how you created the "Advanced Job Search" and the "Search by Occupation" sections.

vm’s picture

vm commented

My guess would be views.module

richygecko’s picture

richygecko commented

Yep that was part of it. For the advanced search block on the right, I set up my view and added filters for what I wanted to search for. I then exposed them found the ID's for the filter in the exposed views form and pretty much copied it into a block and added some css and then hid the exposed filters in my template.php file.

For the dependant drop down / combo select I used Shelanem's code found here: http://code.google.com/p/jqueryselectcombo/ Wish i had the time / know how to make this code a module. I tried every solution here on drupal but none would let me add the number of nodes or let me search for parent nodes and not just the children.

For the Categories / Taxonomy Term list I add the following to my front page:

<?php
  /*VID is Vocabulary ID*/
  $vid = 2;
  $items = array();
  $terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid);
  foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
    $count = taxonomy_term_count_nodes($term->tid,"job");
    print '<div class="category-list">' . l($term->name,'jobs/all/'.$term->tid)." (".$count.")".'</div>';
   } /* end foreach */
?>

Then I added arguments for the job category list and location for the map on the job view.

socialtalker’s picture

socialtalker commented

how do you geocode the locations?

dmfernandez’s picture

dmfernandez commented

Which modules hat you used?

Can you send me a list?

snowworkers rulez!!!

johnlee80’s picture

johnlee80 commented

Snowworkers looks fantastic. I'm trying to build a site like this as well.

I was just wondering if you might be able to give a tip or 2 about how you put the job post and the profile together. It's a very nice design.

I'm not really asking for step by step information, I'm sure you don't want to give away all the secrets to your success.

But I think it might be helpful though if you could just let us know if you used a particular module or if there was extensive customization involved.

Any hint would go along way.

Sincerely,

John