We need a website created and designed similar to virturaltourist.com.
You will first need to investigate on the platform to design the site with. eg (socialengine, php) and tell me how you are planning to use that platform to design the site. What plugins you are going to use, timeframe, what you need from us etc so we know if we can reply on you for such a project.
The website will be using 2.0 social networking funtions plus all the features you see in virtualtourist.com. An example of these are listed below (but not limited to):
Allow charging your user to post
Proximity search
Approval, featured, sponsored
Mapping, Ratings, and Gallery
SEO urls / title
Multiple profiles / categories
Configurable submission types
Main Landing Page:
Slide-show for random featured businesses
Recent activities to capture latest actions related to businesses
Highlight for recent submitted new businesses
Popular auto-generated tag cloud
Popular categories
Popular locations
Sponsored businesses
Browsing:
Browse by categories
Browse by locations (city, state/province, country)
Browse by neighborhoods (regions)
Browse by tags
Alphabet (A-Z) quick filter thru results
Sponsored businesses always on top (easily customizable using css)
Highlight *featured* businesses (easily customizable using css)
Embedded global map for businesses
Search and Filter
Generic search by keywords and locations
Proximity distance zip search (Australia cities and postcodes)
AJAX auto suggest location search
Filter featured businesses only
Extensive sorting options, can easily see top rated, most popular, recent updated businesses etc..
General Configuration:
Privacy, public browsing option
Configurable proximity search
Optional configurable for validating of primary fields (summary, description, phone, url, location etc..)
Category and Profile mapping
Listing Types / Packages
Full *ads-like* for available listing types users can choose to submit
Ability to charge user for submission based on types (paypal, credit cards, etc)
Define different durations, or never expires
Optional Auto approval triggering
Optional auto mark business as featured
Optional auto mark business as sponsored
Ability to limit access (all, none, custom) to profile sections based on types
Claimable Listings
Ability to claim existing businesses
Admin can easy to manage and process user claims
Can specify which owner’s business can be claimed by others
User can view submitted claims and its status.
Manage Submitted Businesses
Easy overview of submitted businesses
Manual approval, featured, sponsored entries
Quick search to filter and see what you want
Update transaction requirement, expiration, type, and many more
User-Level Customization
Permission control: no access, view only, or view/submit business
Permission to logo upload
Permission to album / photos gallery upload
Permission to mapping
Permission to custom styles
and various of other settings
Business Page
Clean format and layout
Sponsored and Featured highlight (can easily customized using css)
Embedded mimi map with popup to bigger map
Rating stars and who rated
Support commenting with privacy setting
Mimi uploaded photo gallery
Most of these features can be found in lugins for socialengine and phpfox. ([login to view URL])
Let me know if you know or have a better platform for this project. I believe [login to view URL] and [login to view URL] are using the same platform/scipt but i am not sure which script. If you can find out that will be great.
At the end of the day i want this site to perform and fuction exactly like virtualtourist.com.
Dear Client, I am amazing happy to see the project details as I have done similar work in another language. Please check private message box for the similar work and further discussion.. Respond me quickly to discuss more...Thanks ---