Clients / Projects
Olympic Holidays
"It is a huge site with over 1,000 accommodations, 5 physical servers, 18 virtual servers and thousands of visitors every single day"
Olympic Holidays is one of my regular clients. We work with them almost every day to ensure their website is running as well as it can and that new developments are being created to try to increase sales and the user experience.
The site is so large and the range of work we do for them so great that is it hard to sum it up in this one place and to do justice to it, but we'll try.
We have worked on the site for over 3 years now and know pretty much every corner of it. Since taking over the running of the site we have been trying to bring it upto date with the changes in styles and technologies since this version of it first went live in 2000.
- Slowly intergrating most of the pages to be standards compliant for HTML, CSS and Accessablity.
- Where possible the HTML is going on a diet to trim it down
- Microsoft ASP powered, and some funky ASP at that!
- Advanced ASP framework that handles the input/output from the legacy CMS engine
- No duplication of code where possible, difficult when you have multiple copied of the same sites running
- Clean coding designed to ease maintance
- Search engine friendly without reverting to "black hat tricks"
- Advanced Javascript framework that handles the input/output from the legacy booking engine
- 404 handling and temp redirects for news offers etc.
- Information pages are automatically generated from CMS data daily for speed and to ensure they are upto date
- Unique XML booking gateways which screen scape the legacy booking engine
All in all the Olympic sites are a complicated affair but they work and are constantly being improved, speeded up, developed and pushed to give the best we can from the time, budgets and technology constraits that we face.