Thread: New Irish Job website

We're working on setting up a new irish job website. We've just started and we're giving ourserlves 2 weeks to build it from scratch. News will be posted on Irish Job Market pretty soon.

I was wondering if people could let us know:
What would you like to see in a job website?
What are your peeves?
Which site works best for you?

any other comments welcomed.

Roger

probably the wrong forum for this....

a RSS feature would be nice for each individual job type and region
a 'this job has been viewed x times' feature

Hi Rollo,
Thanks for the reply.

> a RSS feature would be nice for each individual job type and region

Do you mean a single one which shows jobs for job type within region - or 2 separate ones? The 2 separate ones will be set up and I will look at doing the single rss for both criteria. We also hope to have rss on the text search - so you can do a more pinpointed query.

>'this job has been viewed x times' feature
Good suggestion. Daft had that and then dumped it...I wonder why.

>probably the wrong forum for this....
I did put it in "off topic discussion" and was suggested by the site owner to post my query here. If there is somewhere more appropriate...I can take it there.

you website is down at the moment and I am getting this error page:

Unable to connect to database server

This either means that the username and password information in your settings.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the MySQL database server. This could mean your hosting provider's database server is down.
The MySQL error was: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2).
Currently, the username is username and the database server is localhost.

• Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
• Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
• Are you sure that the database server is running?

Hey Louie,
Thanks for that heads-up. We only started today....and we're still working on getting a blog up while we work with a test server offsite. We've given ourselves two-weeks to do this from start to finish, so there probably only be a blog there for the next 7 working days or so. Having said that you shouldn't get an error message - we will try to have a stable blog up there from today on.

No prblem man.
This is the line that I don't like:

The MySQL error was: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2).
Currently, the username is username and the database server is localhost.

You will also need to work on the css stylesheet. The text looks very big.

Thanks Louie.

>> You will also need to work on the css stylesheet. The text looks very big.

Will do.

Roger

Following on from the Rollo's RSS feed idea - Some of the better jobs sites are implementing RSS feeds for your search. So i can go and search for say hotel jobs, and then get a feed for that search. Whenever the site is updated with hotel jobs the feed gets updated also.

I thinkit's a nice touch.

Thanks Richard, we do hope to have an RSS feed for full text search - we hope to be able to index pdf cv files as well for employers.

You can also try Ajax + curl() option to get the feed setup.