Web 2.0 Stores > Fast, Simple, Search Engine Friendly Ecommerce

If I (or the rest of the guys here at Webreakstuff) have been unresponsive in the last few months, you can - in South Park fashion - blame Canada. It’s finally time to spill the beans because the project we’ve been working on with the New Ventures group at Bell has finally launched: meet Realestateplus.ca.

Realestateplus.ca provides users with several ways to find homes in Canada using search or visually using maps. Fact is Canada had no portal that took advantage of Ajax or mapping APIs to create a better home-finding experience, and that’s where RE+ comes in. The whole team behind the project built a pretty compelling product under some pretty tight time constraints, and as such, it is really rewarding to see everything fall into place with this launch.

There are a lot of lessons learned that will probably blend into posts here in a very near future - on collaboration with big clients, QAing in an agile environment, scaling Ruby on Rails, and best practices for UX in this kind of portal. We’ll likely put up a case study about the project on our site soon, to shed some light on how we worked with Bell and the guys at Infusion Dev (the team behind the mapping implementation) in building Realestateplus. For now, though, we need to celebrate and rest for a few hours.

Tags: realestateplus, bell, rubyonrails, webreakstuff, work, agile