VILLA SITE DEVELOPMENT
The basis for the Klikvillas design are:-
Simplicity
Ease of use
Functionality
Simplicity
The main objective of employing Simplicity is to reduce apprehension for the user.
The techniques for maintaining simplicity are:-
- Keep info as brief as possible - but allow the user to click for more
- Consider all text as a layout defined to enhance clarity and understanding as quickly as possible.
- Reduce the amount of choices the user is forced to make.
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PROJECT OUTLINE
To create a web application to:
1.
host listings for villas in jamaica.
$500/year
2.
- link from listing to templated website
- offer unique domain site so potential customer can book without seeing competition.
$750/set up + first year hosted
$500/yr afterward.
3.
Prepare marketing materials and web samples of this product.
4.
Organize efficient payment systems for this product
5.
design environment for ancilliary services such as:
taxi drivers
tour operators
gift shops
links to cell phone - sms
5.
offer ancillary products such as
brochures
photography
etc.
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KLIKVILLAS - PROJECT DETAILS
THE VILLA SITE
LISTINGS SITE
-speed view
-comparison charts
-total self contained site
-view availability
-email request directly to villa owner.
-search criteria crucial
by availble villas
by price
by region
by bedroom
by wedding
by children
by feature
by event
by group villas
tags
ratings
last minute bookings offer price break
special placement on page
location info - country
PRIVATE SITE
- generic site
- own domain
- deeper info on villa - eg meals
- activity planner
- payments systems
- region info
-packages for simplicity
includes car and travel meals
-guest comments
-guest community
events experience
list services related to event managers
- weddings
- caterers
- event venues
- event accommodations
Resources
resources such as transportation...
villa tools
log in for villa owner
offers management tools
lists services
recipes
forms
cost control
online acounting packages
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Setup
1.client goes to listings site
2.chooses villa from information
3.email owner to book
with website
4.The traveller goes to the unique website of the villa.
holiday planner
- communicating details of villa
- records of conversations/emails
- linking friends to the plans
- choosing tours
- transportation arrrangements
- meal plans
- itinerary
- wedding planner
DEFINE SITE AS "DON'T HAVE TO THINK"
Create packages.
Allow guest to choose - not have to develop
selling the site to the villa owner
they want their own sites - so as not to pay 25% commision
therefore -options
build site and listings
rent this tool @ $500/yr
offer a %10 fee for managing bookings
the structure of the villa site
the villa site shall offer:
listings
$200/yr
uploadable by the client
details are entered by the client
website templated
$500 build/rent first year
$300/yr/afterward
the website carries more details and is offered for a fee
main selling feature:
own domain address
booking mechanism
all details of villa
villa tools
a governing idea
the website can cover all of the tourism accomodations
from the cheap and sleazy to the luxury if:
they are separated be the search and by categories
the site is seen a a total "search" tool like google not as a brand
each category/location has a unique presence and only carries like types
consider this very carefully as the location specialist seems to do very well
how do you separate site into /location specialists...instead of non committed listing site..?
or
separate the sites
but use the same structure under a different domain name and template look...
structure could be like this
villa site
small hotels site
same database for the surrounding town can be used
KLIKVILLAS LISTINGS PROJECT OUTLINE
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SUPPORT LINKS
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Online KLIKVILLAS reference sites
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http://www.klikworks.com/klikvillas.html
http://listings.klikworks.com/Klikvillas_Newsletter.html
Sample reference Site: GREATRENTALS
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- This site can be used as a lead for discussion of features required for KLIKVILLAS.
- The backend of the site can be used as a lead for defining the construction of the backend of KLIKVILLAS.
SITE
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www.greatrentals.com
BACKEND
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Action: go to "owner login" - Enter
- email: spratmedia@yahoo.com
- password: spratworks
OTHER
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DESIGNS: TO BE COMPLETED FOLLOWING THE LOOK OF CURRENT DESIGN.
PROJECT OUTLINE
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There are 8 major features to develop:
The search function, is very specialized.
The sign-up pages (which require a payment gateway).
TRAVEL DIRECTORY APPLICATION
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Brief description:
A listing app with:
- powerful search capabilities,
- user sign-up and management of resorts pages
- customized for resorts
MODULES
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1. SEARCH
2. TAGGABLE RESORT DESCRIPTIONS
3. CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - with admin panel
4. RESORT PAGES (per resort) (with ADMIN PANEL - For uploading info pages for the site.)
5. SIGN-UP PAGES
6. AVAILABILITY MODULE
7. COMPARISON CHART
8. BOOKINGS: EMAIL OWNER
PHASE II: FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
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1. COMMUNITY
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- Rate a resort/comments
- Traveler blogs
- Forums
FEATURES TO IMPLEMENT FOR THIS PROJECT:
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1. SEARCH
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Using the following filters:
- by availability
- by price
- by region/destination
- by number of bedrooms
- by amenities
- by those tagged as "special offer"
- by tag
2. TAGGABLE RESORT DESCRIPTIONS
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Resort owners can input specific tags to describe their offerings/ For example, when describing their resort, they can put in seaside, diving, family, parasailing, wedding.
These tags are then shown in a tag cloud, so that similar resorts can be found.
3. CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - with admin panel
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For uploading info pages for the site.
Examples are About Us, Privacy Policy, Home page, Location/Region info (and other related articles about a particular locale),
pages about Resources (basic info about car rentals, etc) among others.
These will be pages pertaining to the site in general, all administered by the site admin.
4. RESORT PAGES (per resort) (with ADMIN PANEL to be accessed by the owner)
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NOTE: For database to be searchable, we have to put in the resort pages within the Rails app
If the owners want to have more extensive sites, then we link to the .NET NUKE site they set up (outside the scope of this project).
The content on those sites will ------ not-------- be searchable from this app.
- Resort description and tags
- Pictures
- Availability
- Menu/Food choices
- Location Info
- Owner contact/Email owner form
- Services
5. SIGN-UP PAGES
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- Sign-up pages for resort owners
- Payment gateway (via PayPal API)
6. AVAILABILITY MODULE
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Each resort owner can indicate dates of availability, displayed via a caledar in the individual resort pages, dynamically updated.
7. COMPARISON CHART
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A datagrid which shows a listing of resorts, which can be filtered by price, number of rooms, amenities/services.
Using AJAX, results are updated dynamically
(e.g., sorting by increasing price rearranges the table rows)
8. BOOKINGS: EMAIL OWNER
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A link to a booking form, sent via email to the resort owner
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Features list ends here for this project.
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PHASE II: FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
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1. COMMUNITY
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- Rate a resort/comments
- Traveler blogs
- Forums
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