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ListingTank Built by Plexus

Aug 27, 2009

For nearly the last six months Plexus has been building a new Web application designed to reward those who rent. ListingTank, “the rewarding way to rent,” is the brainchild of four young entrepreneurs – Charles Roach, Charles Preston, Shane Bridges, Carter Kessler, who share a background in real estate sales, development and investing. ListingTank lets you search for available apartments, homes and other properties for rent using an extensive database complete with an interactive photoviewer, maps, streetview, floorplans, detailed descriptions and more. When you find what you are looking for and sign a lease, ListingTank rewards you with a cash incentive rangin...

Tagged: real estate web site, application development, ruby on rails, ror, user interface design, ui real estate web site, application development, ruby on rails, ror, user interface design, ui

ListingTank Built by Plexus

Aug 27, 2009

For nearly the last six months Plexus has been building a new Web application designed to reward those who rent. ListingTank, “the rewarding way to rent,” is the brainchild of four young entrepreneurs – Charles Roach, Charles Preston, Shane Bridges, Carter Kessler, who share a background in real estate sales, development and investing. ListingTank lets you search for available apartments, homes and other properties for rent using an extensive database complete with an interactive photoviewer, maps, streetview, floorplans, detailed descriptions and more. When you find what you are looking for and sign a lease, ListingTank rewards you with a cash incentive rangin...

Tagged: real estate web site, application development, ruby on rails, ror, user interface design, ui real estate web site, application development, ruby on rails, ror, user interface design, ui

Plexus Launches a Bevy of New Sites

Jun 17, 2008

Plexus Web Creations, a full service Web design and application development firm based in Athens, Georgia recently announced the launch of several new Web sites. Among the newly rolled out sites is Bulldawg Illustrated, a publication conceived six years ago that is designed to bring a sense of unity and participation to fans and alumni of the Georgia Bulldogs by enabling them to be a part of the publication. The site, www.bulldawgillustrated.com makes the publication fully interactive in its online form. On the site, users are able to subscribe to the print or online version, read the latest UGA news from online news and blog posts, view recent photos fr...

Tagged: pxComponents, web site launch, Web design, ruby on rails, search engine optimization, SEO

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Blog Posts

Dynamic Select Menus in Rails using Observe_Field

Mar 16, 2010 by Charlie

I frequently find myself building forms which contain dynamic select menus. This means that a user selects a choice from one menu, and that choice populates options into a second menu. An example of this might be a scenario where the user selects their state from a drop-down menu, then selects their city from a second menu. We only want that second menu to contain citie...

Tagged: dynamic select menus, ruby on rails, ruby, rails, observe field, javascript, jquery, prototype

Plexus iPhone Conversion

Jan 21, 2009 by Travis

I started wondering a few days ago, "Why don't we have an iPhone version of the Plexus site?" So I did some research and found that enabling a Ruby on Rails site for the iPhone was easier than I thought. I found a great tutorial outlining how to create a custom mime-type and create iPhone-specific pages. I took advantage of a few tools to make my job a bit easier. i...

Tagged: iphone, ipod touch, rails, ruby on rails

Form Validation vs. Correction in Rails

Dec 17, 2008 by Charlie

Developers have a great deal of control over a web user's experience, and when it comes to validating input forms, opportunities to make things smoother for the user are something every good developer should think about. For example, I am working on a project right now where users can enter the URL of a link into the database-driven content. In order for the link to ...

Tagged: ruby, rails, ruby on rails, validation, correction, forms, user experience

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