Introducing Lastminute Coach Holidays - Wednesday, 8th October 2008

My main project over the last five months has now gone live after the client received their ABTA Bond (a very lengthy process for anyone thinking of starting a travel company!).

The name of the website is Lastminute Coach Holidays and it acts as a reseller for all British coach touring companies.

The site includes numerous advanced features such as heavy SMS integration, distance calculations and more - all allowing users to find local, suitable holidays as easily as possible.

On the technical front, the work included significant PHP/MySQL coding, a custom Javascript and AJAX framework, Search Engine Optimisation and command line Linux administration. For more information about the client's brief and how I helped realise it, please view the client page.

If you want to jump straight to the website, head to www.lastminutecoachholidays.com. The site will be filling up with holiday data over the coming weeks which will help make all the location based features really useful.

I really enjoyed this project and the challenge of combining so many different features and technologies (i.e. allowing the client to text all members within 10 miles of a certain area). I will be working closely with Lastminute Coach Holidays in the future to help continue to develop and promote the website.

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