After 4 years, the Hotel Le Recif's website needed a fresh new look and more importantly, it needed to be available on mobile and tablet devices. LUX* Resorts & Hotels were therefore looking for a solution that could facilitate these demands and wishes. A solution they found by the means of Umbraco 7 and Umbraco Cloud:
Skills used
- Umbraco Cloud
Sector
- Tourism & hospitality
What we were challenged to solve
Hotel Le Recif's website used to be on Umbraco version 4.7 and we decided to create everything from scratch instead of going through the process of upgrading.
The main focus was to have it under Umbraco version 7 and to make full use of all new functionalities.
How we solved it
We chose Umbraco because it is the most stable CMS and the one we consider doing the best job.
Having used Umbraco for nearly 6 years now, we truly think it is very flexible when it comes to running either small or complex website.
What we gained from it
With the flexibility of Umbraco, we were able to build a smarter website with a better organized structure. One simple example is the use of DataType Related Links used to make a simple list of external Links.
And by upgrading to Umbraco 7 it was now also easier for us to make the site look good on mobile and tablet devices. Another v 7 functionality we made good use of was Partial Views which helped us greatly when building a new booking widget.
Because we used Umbraco Cloud, getting the website live was just a matter of seconds since everything was already replicated from Local environment. No database to replicate on live server.
Umbraco Cloud helps us in many different ways in terms of deployments. Now, instead of having 3 different databases we only have one on our local development environment. No more hassle when it comes to maintenance!