Monday, 14 September, 2009

Cruise Collection

Online Cruises - Web development

Cruise Collection is a rapidly growing agency in Greece which aims to help you find online the best cruises around the world.

porcupine colors developed the relevant website, which turned out to be a very complicated project. Our mission was to help visitors take the most it, without feeling the depth or the complexity of the content.

The main pages were designed by the very talented Zaharenia Atzitizikaki. We moved on with the micro design of several elements of the website but most of all with the development phase. Apart from the structure, there were many issues to be solved: a smart search engine which works with filters, how to connect different parts of the website one to another or how to design a simple and usable way to fill in and submit huge forms.

Furthermore we re-aligned/designed part of the Control Panel of the administration area, because we needed to help editors and administrators publish different types of new content easily. Since each cruise includes almost 20 different types of areas and fields, not optimising the panel would mean that the platform would be practically unusable.

All of this became relatively easy thanks to Expression Engine which powers Cruise Collection.

Gerasimos Tsiamalos, a very strong developer, was another person who was involved in the project. Gerasimos made things work in most of the cases and his help was invaluable.