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!