| Owner
Hotel, Hull
Web design and hosting
Industry: Hospitality
Date Completed: Jan 2008
Web address: www.ownerhotel.com
Client Introduction...
Owner hotel is situated in the heart of the city centre
, next door to the central library ten minutes walk
from the new bus and train station and state of the
art St Stephens shopping Centre. A perfect location!
Project Overview...
As the hotel is new they wanted to simply advertise
the hotel with a basic website, then at a later date
grow the site into a full eCommerce enabled website.
This meant allowing any future developments to be easily
added.
Their future plans involve an online hotel booking
system and restaurant booking facility. Both the restaurant
and hotel would need to have Content Management System
(CMS) systems in place as well as a secure payment facilty
The Brief...
- A design reflecting quality
while maintaining the colour scheme of their sister
company
- Allow the ability for future
developments
- Ease of use for customers
to find how to book a room
- Information should be accurate
and up to date
- Site should work on all browsers
- Detailed site visitor statistics
Payment System...
In the future they will be having an Extended Validation
SSL Certificates capable of up to 256-bit encryption.
This will allow them to take credit card details online
and process them using their own C&P terminal services
What they said...
"As always is the case with us, we gave you a
slim budget and as little time as possible. However
you pulled it off as usual. Look forward to the future
developments later in the year"
Technology and Hosting...
Client Side: HTML
Server Side: XML
Platform/OS: IIS 6, Windows Server 2003
The process...
When you contact us regarding development work we will
discuss your requirements with you, finding out what
you would like and what you actually need. Once the
initial concept is laid out we will email you with the
specification and cost of the project. We will then
advise on what to do next, what merchant account to
go for (if applicable) and which information we need
from you. If you would like us to deal with any third
parties, such as printers, accountancy software companies
etc. we will contact them direct. We find this easier
for all concerned as it saves, not only time, but also
any misunderstandings.
Once we have the go ahead from yourselves we will start
to put a design together. We host this on a staging
area so that you can see how it will look like once
live on your domain (web address). Once the design is
agreed, we then start to build the rest of the website
Timescales...
You will be notified at the beginning with estimated
timescales.
Not sure what type of website is best for you?
For a no obligation quote or
for an informal chat, give
us a ring and someone will be more than happy to talk
with you and go through all the options. We promise
we won't talk gobbledygook either! |
