New custom travel site using Bootstrap v3 showcase

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Hi,

I recently activated a new travel site using Osclass. I am showcasing this as an example of want can be accomplished with Osclass. It is still a work in progress but it is live and working. A few details:

-using Bootstrap v3 (custom theme, I started the work from the Bender theme files)

-many changes to the core files (required to fully integrate Bootstrap and to better fit the travel business)

-Fully integrated with Cloudflare (with custom page caching on the CDN edge servers) I know many of you had problems with Cloudflare but it is a must if you know how to properly use it, you cannot use the default Cloudflare settings and you must use a paid account to access the required features.

Feel free to comment or ask questions. I will try to help if you are having problems with Bootstrap and/or Cloudflare.


http://www.oeoego.com/
result example: http://www.oeoego.com/r/vacation-rentals_-r782051

Isael P.

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nice example. what happened to the images?  are you using the image resizer?
and a huge amount of json errors

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Images: many owners (our members) use poor quality images.

Json errors: the Facebook share script is causing an error since about a month on all websites. Sadly it is not something we can fix. From time to time we are also having errors from Google Maps, again from their external script that we can`t fix.

Here is an example of a listing with proper image quality: http://www.oeoego.com/r/vacation-rentals/villa-hamilton_i238

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Another important point that may be a benefit for all of you: we all depend on the users to upload good images but sometime high rez pictures can slow down your site (and a waste on a mobile device with small screens). In our case we are using Cloudflare to properly resize the image on-the-fly.  It can send lower rez (lower dimensions) photos to smaller devices wihtout you having to create these different versions on the server side.

Important note: Osclass does not convert PNG to JPEG. In our case, some users upload huge images using PNG. That ceate huge image files (over 1MB per image) and make front end caching useless. I am in the process of chaging the Osclass core file to convert all incoming pictures to Jpeg. I will post the code as soon as I am done testing it.

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WILL YOU SHARE YOUR THEME?

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I cannot distribute this theme as it is custom built for this business and won`t work for a general multi-category sites. What I can do is answer questions you may have about migrating Bender to Bootstrap or changes to the Core files.

That said I am planning a modified version of this theme for the public if there is enough interest into it.

We also did changes to the user control panel to better fit the rental business. I can take screenshots if you would like to see.