2007 - Somewhere2stay
Planning, Timings, Initial Designs and Functional Specification Completed.

After a lot of very extensive planning with the somewhere2stay team we have completed a full wireframe document for the entire project, and we have a set of signed off designs to work with.

This planning process has been very in depth as this project is extremely complex. Most notably, we have designed and planned the building of a dynamic accommodation search panel which will allow the user to move through three tiers of geography to select their desired destination resort, and then allocate their travel party to different rooms. The user will be able to search property types on a board basis and board ratings across the 25,000 hotels and 600 resorts that are in the system.

Not only have we developed a wireframe that will allow for direct customers to make direct bookings through the website, but we have also designed an ‘Agents’ area. The top banner of the site changes when an agent logs into the system, and the prices are changed to allow for specific agent’s markups and discounts.

Initial designs have been produced to show how the site will look right the way through, and although based on a similar grid to the Cosmos site, the look and feel is very much new and specific to somewhere2stay, giving it a very striking and independent image. We’re pleased to say that these initial designs, along with the phased production times that we have proposed, have now been signed off by the different parties involved. Everyone is ready to go – now the work really begins!

Read more in our Somewhere2stay Web Design Case Study