Findaroom.com.au wins Top 10 Kentico Websites for January 2013

Congratulations!

Find a Room is Australia’s premier accommodation and holiday destination
search website. The primary goals in this initial phase were to allow a Mobile Experience using Responsive Design as well as increasing exposure on Search Engines. Personalization has been implemented with custom modules allowing search engine keywords to effect what the end user sees. This feature will allow Find a Room to show relevant content based on what the user searched for.

"The Web Design Magic team have been a pleasure to work with throughout the development of our site, they were eager to explore new initiatives and technologies with us and had the same customer focused mindset as we have for our website.
 
We would highly recommend Web Design Magic for any web design solutions. " Explained Findaroom.com.au

Goals:
Find a Room is Australia’s premier accommodation and holiday destination search website. The primary goals in this initial phase was to allow a Mobile Experience using Responsive Design as well as increasing exposure on Search Engines by allowing Find a Room staff to constantly tinker with content and keywords using the simple to use Kentico CMS.
 
Future versions of this website will include more complex integration into their database allowing more personalized content displayed to their customers in turn achieving more sales. The integration of the Newsletter module, Integration Bus and EMS will facilitate these goals.
 
Challenges
The primary challenge was the Responsive Design and search query algorithms. A lot of work was performed ensuring that relevant records where returned when users searched as this is a global accommodation website. Cross browser and device support was paramount as users would be using many different devices.
 
Solution 
The solution is based on Kentico CMS with future plans to implement features from the CXM. Personalization has been implemented with custom modules allowing search engine keywords to effect what the end user sees. This feature will allow Find a Room to show relevant content based on what the user searched for.
 
Typical features of the CMS like Content Editing, Mobile Detection, Custom Tables and the Integration Bus and not to mention all the other components that make Kentico what it is – an easy to use powerful and flexible CMS/CXM system.
 
Key criteria for choosing Kentico CMS
 
Simple to use and powerful CMS/CXM
Small investment for a large gain allowing a faster ROI
Not Open source, so secure with minimal chance of getting hacked
Ability to facilitate future phases without any platform changes
Fast, localized, flexible and extensible

Posted: Saturday 02 February 2013