We have continued to make further enhancements to www.accommodationforstudents.com over the last few months, resulting in significant improvements to the user experience and ultimately, a smoother and more effective process for connecting students and landlords.
It is now possible for a student to conduct the entire process of searching for, enquiring about and securing a property on the new version of AFS. This includes a new home page, search results, city landing page, property results and enquiry function. The main outcome of this work so far has been to make our website much easier and more appealing to use, particularly on mobile devices.
Thus far we are delighted with the outcome of our work and in particular the positive results it has had for our advertisers, in terms of increases in the number of enquiries we have generated for them. However, it is not the end point, as there is still much more that we want to do, to further improve our service to you.
We have started with these areas of the website because we felt they would make the biggest difference to our users. Now that we have completed them we will turn our attention to other aspects of the site.
At present we are working on an improved solution for banner advertisements on AFS, so that we will be able to more effectively deploy such adverts and improve the results they generate. Once complete we will then turn our attention to developing and launching a feed for agents and landlords that wish to upload larger property portfolios to our website.
Once the feeds are in development, we will then take the opportunity to review progress and prioritise the next phase of development. Projects that will be considered will include improvements to the admin sections of the site (to make it easier to upload properties), upgrades to the housemates and content sections of AFS and further enhancements to the off-site communication process (e.g. email and text message).
The process of developing AFS is ongoing, as we seek to make improvements, without damaging some of the strengths of the original website. Therefore you can expect to see further changes to AFS throughout 2018 and into 2019.
As ever we would be delighted to receive any feedback or suggestions you might have – feel free to send your comments to [email protected] and they will be reviewed by the full team.
Thanks for your continued support.
