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BetterHunt.com Feature Adds - Week of 2/20/2006

Good news! Rodric, a stellar .NET developer (and my cousin) has joined the team and will be helping develop BetterHunt.com. More to come!
This week Rodric and I are knocking out the following features:

Rask:

• registration emails on add lease form
• Finish up lease form drop-downs that aren’t populated
• Test lease form
• Get a early version of the search page done

Rodric:

• Create new private Hunting Club site
• Link a lease map to club site
• Add atlas capabilities to lease map
• Add pushpins to lease map, save view

Future list:

BetterHunt.com Public Site:

• AJAX vs. postback on lease registration form.
• Paypal integration with add lease form. $$
• stand alone registration form
• weekly lease currency emails to posters
• lease alert emails (as soon as new lease is posted, get a email) $$
• google ad words for site
• search engine posting and optimization
• search page, add query engine
• add lease details page
• add “add to favorites icon” on list page and detail page
• do favorites page (logged in)

Hunting Group Extranet: $$ (2 levels, standard or gold)

• Private forums
• Photos
• lease map upload
• lease map pinpoints: wildlife (configurable), spottings (configurable), blinds, other markers, campsite items
• directions to lease
• member directory
• blind / lease / bed scheduling

2 comments February 20th, 2006

BetterHunt.com Development Catchup

Well the past week and a half I have been working on BetterHunt.com (or should I call it HuntingBag.com or HuntPost.com.. or HuntBag.com.. I reserved them all just in case - let me know if you have a opinion).

Anyway, to catch you up a little on the current status of the web site:

- First version of list leases is done. No filtering and I want to add posted / last verified date to the columns shown. I need to also work on the format of some of the columns (combine the amount column and the increment column so it says “$2000 per hunter” in one column.

- Add lease page is close, need to add validation and handle the user login/management. Then I will add in the handlers for the “premium” pay per feature.

- Next up will be: Ability for user to save leases browsed to “favorites” page. Email and graphic verification of lease posting and “still active” verification emails to keep these puppies current.

- Future: Allow chamber of commerce filtering and linking, add Google ads, add site to search engines. Lease management section.

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