The Easy Job Boards Blog

We’re still working hard on getting job categories and custom theming support added, and are making some useful interface tweaks to both the management and public interfaces.

Hopefully, we’ll wrap up development early next week and, after a good bit of testing, push the changes live.

All existing boards (trial or subscription) will automatically be updated to include support for both categories and custom colours, theming and the other tweaks and improvements we have made.

I’ve put up a couple of screenshots to show how the theme and colour support is coming along. As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback.

Basic Theme Support

Custom Colour Selection

We’ve received some really good feedback from users of our job board software with ideas on features they’d like to see.

We’re committed to keeping the job boards as simple and easy-to-use as possible. As part of this, we are careful to only add features that provide enough value to a large proportion of our customers.

Coming soon to Easy Job Boards…

Job Categories

Some specialised job boards have only a few job listings at a time, so a simple list of jobs is enough. For others, it’s better to add categories for different roles or types of position.

We’re working on a simple categories feature so that jobs can be organised in to categories you define. For example, a board for accountancy jobs might have categories for each role, such as “Accountant”, “Auditor”, “Financial Controller”, etc. Categories could also represent geographical areas or specific skills.

Job Board Customisation

You can already customise the appearance of your job board by adding your logo, but we wanted to go further.

We’re working on a customisation feature where you can choose colours to use on your job board. These colours can then match your branding or colours used on the main website.

If you don’t need such fine-grained control, choose from a small selection of ready made themes.

These features should be released shortly. We’re also adding contract types (Permanent, Contract, Freelance, etc) and making ongoing improvements to the board management interface.

A couple of days ago we announced that we’d soon be implementing custom domain functionality in to Easy Job Boards. Well, we quietly introduced the feature last night which means that as well as being able to run your job board on an easyjobboards.com subdomain e.g. myboard.easyjobboards.com, you can now run it on any domain which you own.

So, if you own newyorkaccountancyjobs.com, you can now run your job board directly from that address. Or, if you already have a company website, you can use a jobs subdomain like jobs.mycompany.com. There are only two things you need to do to make it work:

Step 1: Add the domain to your board settings

Log in to your board and go to the settings page. Add your domain name under Advanced Settings.

Simply add your domain name, save and you're all set

Step 2: Change DNS settings

When somebody types in your domain name, it needs to resolve to our server so we can show your job board. You can usually manage DNS settings at your domain registrar (where you registered the domain) or through a third-party DNS hosting company.

The best way is to add an alias or CNAME record which maps your full domain to your boards subdomain on Easy Job Boards. For example, the full domain geekjobs.im is an alias for geekjobs.easyjobboards.com.

Example DNS settings using zoneedit.com

With these changes made, your job board is available to visitors using your own custom domain. The private management interface still uses the subdomain.

As more people have been trying out Easy Job Boards, we’ve had a few feature requests. The most requested feature so far has been to allow custom domains for job boards.

Job Board on a subdomain

When you create your own job board using the Easy Job Boards service, your site appears on its own subdomain, e.g. example.easyjobboards.com. For many job boards this is fine and is an easy way to get started. Your job board still has its own unique address you can link to or use in email, print ads, etc.

Custom Domain for your Job Board

Some job boards have a stronger brand and want to use their own domain name. For example, the “geekjobs” board is at geekjobs.easyjobboards.com but can also be accessed on its own domain geekjobs.im.

Although we have internal support for custom domains, at present customers need to contact support to request it. We plan to fix that soon by making it so you can specify the domain using the management interface and then make a change to the DNS record using your normal domain registrar or DNS hosting service.

With these changes, you’ll be able to put your job board on any domain you control. We’ll let you know when it’s ready to roll!