www.watershedcabins.com - luxury log cabin rentals

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu 29. Dec 2005, 19:47

We just went live for a luxury log cabin rental company in North Carolina, US. The website is http://www.watershedcabins.com

rushclub · Post by **rushclub** » Fri 30. Dec 2005, 07:34

extremly nice. i am deep impressed.

cheers
rush

rushclub · Post by **rushclub** » Fri 30. Dec 2005, 07:37

how did you do the reservation thing? with ionrock calendar or a different solution?

cheers
rush

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Fri 30. Dec 2005, 19:15

Thanks for the complements, rushclub. The 'calendar of rates' is simply an html table - no system used for it. The 'cabin rates' is pulling the data from external pages in phpwcms. For instance, the first row of rates on this page http://www.watershedcabins.com/reservations.phtml is also being referenced on this page http://www.watershedcabins.com/dream_catcher.phtml. They both [include] this page http://www.watershedcabins.com/index.ph ... 54,0,0,1,0. That way, my client only has to update the cabin rates once and it cascades to the corresponding cabin detail pages as well as the master rate sheet.

Post by **juergen** » Fri 30. Dec 2005, 20:07

Hello

Thanks Ben, I just wondered how you did rewriting only parts of the site ... no new mod

Jürgen

kubens · Post by **kubens** » Fri 30. Dec 2005, 21:35

Hi Ben,

this site looks very nice. One of main reasons therefore is the perfect integration of wonderful images

Durring my last project I was confrontated with similar requirements. One of the main problems was to give the customer an easy solution to update season tables and price tables. Therefore I integrated an Excel interface which enables the customer to update these information by an simple Excel upload which was realized with the Excel Parser.

BR
Wolfgang

hokah · Post by **hokah** » Sat 31. Dec 2005, 16:47

Hi,
your site is really grat.
I wonder if you have done and how if so, forms for adding new cabins.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon 2. Jan 2006, 17:42

@DF6IH - No modding on the re-write. Basically, each page has a series of numbers that will reference it in addition to an alias, if one is assigned to the page.

@kubens - Glad you like the integration of photos. Sounds like you found an interesting solution with the Excel Parser. Maybe you should post what you did in "Hacks & Enhancements"

@hokah - Thanks for the complement! The 'cabin-detail' template contains 9 custom template areas:
THUMBNAIL, SUMMARY and ICONS - These three are in the top section PRICING and HIGHLIGHTS - These go on the 'overview' tab
PHOTOS_EXTERIOR - Goes on the exterior tab
PHOTOS_INTERIOR - Goes on the interior tab
DETAILS_LEFT and DETAILS_RIGHT - The 2 columns on the details tab

trip · Post by **trip** » Tue 3. Jan 2006, 08:43

Ben
great site
did you use a table for this page??
http://www.watershedcabins.com./cabins.phtml
how do you update it?

TriP

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue 3. Jan 2006, 15:35

Yes, trip - it's a standard html table, so you can easily update it in the built in wysiwyg editors. I used the script from the following page to turn the table into a javascript sortable array - http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

trip · Post by **trip** » Wed 4. Jan 2006, 08:01

thanks Ben
looks like an interesting priece of code
thanks
TriP

StudioZ · Post by **StudioZ** » Tue 10. Jan 2006, 19:04

Very impressive work and design Ben

Very talented Ben

Keep it up !!!

Cheers,

hokah · Post by **hokah** » Sat 4. Feb 2006, 20:10

Ben, could you please tell me how could i make such template ??
Im doing similar rentals for my sister, she wants to rent homes on sicily for hollidays and she was amazed about your's cabins listings.

regards
Peter

1996 328ti · Post by **1996 328ti** » Sat 18. Feb 2006, 04:24

You make it look so simple.
So nicely done.

fellchen · Post by **fellchen** » Sat 18. Feb 2006, 16:27

Hi Ben,

I miss something ... meta tags!?

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<meta name="author" content="...">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">  or use noindex, nofollow
<meta name="copyright" content="...">
<meta name="keywords" content="...">
<meta name="description" content="...">

keywords and description tag:
Keywords could you setup in article creation process and the description could you setup in page creation process. Individual for every page.

DC META Tags: http://dublincore.org

In the source:

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<meta name="generator" content="phpwcms v1.2.3-DEV">

You need an update!?

Marko