White Wall Web (WWW), cape based web database application development company announced today that they have signed a deal to roll out their RFS software to the RE/MAX real estate franchise group in Australia. RE/MAX is the world’s largest real estate group, covering 63 countries with almost 120 000 associates in nearly 6,000 offices.

RE/MAX of Southern Africa and WWW collaborated on the building of RFS and the system was prototyped in Southern Africa. Subsequently the software was successfully piloted in New Zealand. “We currently have over 3,000 users of the software excluding web site visitors to the property listing module” claims Peter Flynn, MD of WWW.

RFS has now been licensed to RE/MAX Australia. “This is a significant contract because the Australian region has great potential for RE/MAX International. We are very proud to have been selected to manage their system requirements and I feel it is a strong vote of confidence not only for us, but the South African ICT industry in general.” Flynn is a strong believer in the benefits of ICT companies being based in South Africa regularly citing the favourable time zone for international business, lower labour costs and English as a business language.

Recently White Wall Web was awarded as one of the most promising emerging ICT companies in South Africa by the Technology Top 100 awards for their work on RFS and another joint venture product called Finassets. “I am proud of our achievements,” says Flynn, “There is a lot of work ahead for us to do as we are still a relatively young company. I believe that we are on the crest of a wave and much of the hard work we have been putting in over the past few years is starting to pay off. It is great to see satisfied clients and receive recognition for a job well done.”

The first phase of the project roll out will now begin with Flynn and Gido Snyman, RFS Project Manager, departing shortly for Brisbane to conduct onsite consulting.

Yesterday we published some nice enhancements for the public front end site using some AJAX scripting.

Read on for more details…

1. A suburb filter has been added on the home page for quicker suburb searching

The end user can either search for a suburb without selecting a region:
(libraries – prototype)

Or the end user can search for a region,

And then search within those results,

Once a suburb or suburbs have been located, the end user can select the suburb(s), select step 3 and step 4 criteria and click on “Submit”.

2. Suburbs are now categorized by “Sub Region”

3. You can now view the photo gallery directly from the one liners

Click on the photo gallery link and…
(libraries – prototype, lightbox2)

4. You can now also view more listing details directly from the one liners

This includes the Web Ref number and the Region, Sub Region and Suburb

5. On the details page there is a new improved layout with additional information

Note also a “back” link at the top, the web reference number, the status (“New Release, For Sale, For Rent, Sold etc.) the type, the Region and the Suburb.

Have a look at http://www.remax-pinnacle.co.za/

See also the listing image display which is powered by the LightBox script library whcih uses the ProtoType Framework and Script.aculo.us.