Grandiz! — Web Design and Development. Works

Works

Bidjobber

Our latest large work is Bidjobber — a marketplace / bidding project for U.S. market
(in home building / construction / renovation niche).

This online business service network is designed to simplify the bid management process between consumers and residential and commercial contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers, renovation companies and Realtors.

This application is released as a public Beta. You can have a look at it’s description, screenshots, features list and video presentation at it’s promo website: http://www.bidjobber.com/

— we didn’t work on the promo website, but the actual application is developed by us within last 12 months.

Feel free to give it a try by signing up at: http://app.bidjobber.com/

bidjobber.com

Ukraine Real Estate

Our largest work is a real estate portal for Ukrainian real estate market:
http://vukraine.com.ua/

Project Story

After performing market research, we’ve found out that this niche was really hot in Ukraine and had a lot of demand from advertisers.

There was a rather strong competition on this market, but all competitors had problems in usability, design, functionality and SEO optimization, so we’ve decided to launch a website which would surpass the competition with good look and feel, modern functionality and features, and high degree of SEO optimization.

Our goal was to create a unique, highly technological and high-quality information exchange platform for Ukraine real estate market, which would lead Ukrainian market, allow the sellers to reach the buyers, and allow the buyers to find the most suitable offer among thousands of real estate classifieds.

It took us 7 months to release this project, including: planning phase, software architecture, development of the technology, and preparations of the design and site frontend.

Ukraine Real Estate was born and released to the internet on July 18th, 2008. We are really happy with the results, as we’ve managed to achieve all goals set when planning the project.

Project Technology

Some of the current features were added after the initial release (i.e. the news engine, the forum, Google maps integration, video upload through Youtube api and dynamic sitemap generator in Google sitemap XML format).

This project is in Russian language only, so we’re going to give you a brief description of the functionality.

The classifieds engine supports publishing classifieds of 4 types: sale, buy, lease, rent;
And 8 types of property: apartment, house, land, office, room, garage, commercial property, storehouse.
The system is able to hold the geography of any country, including: states, regions, cities and city areas. So – anyone can publish a classified to a certain city, or to a certain region, or to a certain city area.
The classifieds have built-in support of various options and media, including: object plan, object photos, video (through YouTube API integration), Google Maps (through Google maps API). You can see samples of some nice classifieds published by our users:
http://vukraine.com.ua/object/289
http://vukraine.com.ua/object/2104
The classifieds search system is extremely smart and has a lot of built-in search options.
All classifieds are broadcasted via RSS feeds and regular E-mail subscriptions.
Users can even subscribe to filtered results (i.e. if they want an RSS feed of real estate objects of certain city area on a certain street within certain price range – they can easily subscribe to such a feed).
The technology is based on CodeIgniter php framework and PostgreSQL database engine (which makes it extremely fast). Memcached data caching is built-in. Jquery is used for JS effects and Ajax.
The technology is integrated with Drupal CMS to handle news blog functionality (http://vukraine.com.ua/news/), and with phpBB to run the forums (http://vukraine.com.ua/forum/).
The technology and xhtml code are done with very, very strong SEO in mind:
- All the needed keywords are carefully translated to pages titles and h1 / h2 headings – for every page of the listing, and every page of a classified.
- All URI’s are SEO-friendly and contain keywords, like this:
  http://vukraine.com.ua/sale/flat/odesskaya/odessa/primorskiy
- An xml sitemap for search engines is dynamically generated.
- All that results in thousands of pages being indexed by search engines and high search engine traffic.
Admin backend allows to do all the needed things.
Our in-house advertising software is built-in, which allows to run contextual and highly targeted ads, including Geo IP targeting, contextual and behavioral advertising.

Project Awards

Ukraine Real Estate is nominated in two highly rated Internet awards of 2008: WebHiTech as best consumer characteristics and UA Webstar 2008 as best niche website.

AutoPress

In January 2008, we’ve finished and released AutoPress technology — a web-based software product which allows easy creation and management of auto dealer websites (Russian). AutoPress technology was built upon WordPress software. Basically, AutoPress is WordPress for Auto Dealers willing to publish their cars inventory as posts.