Flight Times

For those of you tuning in at home, we are still hard at work on RightSite.Asia, and expecting to launch our beta version soon.  Here’s a quick run-down of the challenges we’re working on:

Chinese proofreading: we are still revising and proofreading the Chinese version of the site

Value lists: we have fixed the problem of arranging the values in our field menus in a natural order for each language (hooray).  But there are still a few English values lurking illicitly in the Chinese site

Style sheet: there are a few changes to be made in font colors and link colors in the site to make it more appealing to users

Property Requirements Location Preferences:  Our team had set up the fields for preferred location in the properties wanted section in the same way that they had set up the location fields in the properties available section.  Oops! We didn’t think that the actual locations wanted would be much more a general than the locations available, so now we need to re-structure these fields.

Linking Industrial Zones to their Subzones: Many large industrial zones include specialised subzones, such as Export Processing Zones, so we need to show the relationships between these zones.  Unfortunately, the existing structure only allowed for free text entry of subzone names. Now we are improving this to allow users to select a parent zone for any subzone from an auto-complete list of existing zones.

Browser Compatibility: There are many different software platforms out there to view RightSite on.  We are trying to make sure our site displays and functions properly on Windows, Mac and Linux, not to mention using Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers.  This will take some time.

Loading the Site onto our Permanent Host:  Once we have finished the site, it needs to get set up on our permanent host.

Importing the Data: We have built listings of nearly 1,500 industrial zones, and we will need to import this information into RightSite.

With some luck, I believe that we can be installing RIghtSite onto its permanent webhost on the weekend of 22-23 November.  (Now that’s something to be thankful for). After the site is set up, we will import the data, and do some additional testing.

Look for a live, public beta version of RightSite on December 1st. We hope you will enjoy!

Related posts:

1. Pre-Flight Checklist
2. In the Home Stretch