The Floor Plan Navigator, or Plan Gator for short

Most home buyers see floor plans as an important tool to use before looking at a home. Floor plans are also seen as the second most important item to look at right after photos. Tablet devices like the Apple iPad and now the Surface by Microsoft are quickly becoming the devices of choice for web browsing.  Adding all three things together brought us to the development of ... Plan Gator!

From a purely technical standpoint, Plan Gator is ultralight brilliance in a small foot print. Requiring no heavy Flash coding or no cumbersome frameworks, Plan Gator works it's magic with only a little Javascript and PHP code for the non-windows version and VBScript for the ASP Windows version. The brilliance is Plan Gator comes from the introduction of our own IFPML, Interactive Floor Plan Markup Language, that is used to code the database engine that drives program. IFPML uses but a small handful of powerful statements that set up the program flow throughout the program.

From a users perspective, Plan Gator is friendly and intuitive. For those willing to dive right in and start exploring, they can quickly see that some of the options will dynamically change the menu options revealing new features of the home. A mouse over or a tablet screen tap will reveal why a particular option may not be available. For the user who is not sure where to start there is a short but helpful help screen that will get them quickly on their way.  However, the best feature for the user runs invisibly.

Depending on the screen size of the device that the user is using, Plan Gator only sends them as much data as is needed to display on the device. If the user has an iPhone with a screen size of 320×480, Plan Gator resizes all images on the fly to properly fit that screen saving the user valuable bandwidth.
 
Contact me to see how Plan Gator can help you market your properties!