PRICE COMPARISON TRAVEL WEBSITE (HOTELS, FLIGHTS & MORE)
£1500-3000 GBP
Closed
Posted about 13 years ago
£1500-3000 GBP
Paid on delivery
We need a complete full-feature end to end affiliate price comparison travel website. Most XML code for this project with regards to booking etc. is provided. Also some SEO work.
Previous experience with affiliate networks essential and ability to provide such website/s for us to view (not essential but very desirable)
It must have all the features of price comparison travel website covering Flights, Hotels, Car Hire and Holidays (example [login to view URL]). Need to be reliable, excellent in development in the skills below, experienced and creative.
Start of Development
Will be provided:-
The design work is complete with a complete wire frame model of the whole site. All CSS work is complete but minor elements might need to modify.
Web Site Specification (covers technical and design)
Current Database Model Scripts
Partner APIs (with examples)
Web Site requirements
The site must be fast, SEO friendly and developed in ASP.NET, C#, XML, AJAX, JavaScript and SQL.
The technical specification will be provided to the successful candidate. Key development tasks are:
• Create a comparison travel website for the defined sections (Flight, Hotel and Car Hire).
• Consolidate lots of search results from each reservation company (example [login to view URL] and [login to view URL] by web service and white labeling) into one easy-to-use result set for our customers who will then click through the appropriate affiliate link to the reservation company.
• The site must be able to easily translate into various languages and manage different currencies
• There is White labeling included for Hotel sections based on simple Xml Services
• Insert Google map with all the hotels and Car Hire. The map must have custom markers and clustering to easily handle a large amount of markers (see [login to view URL] for example). Another large map will be dedicated to flight destinations.
• Record users events, caches features and record visitor stats
• Basic Static Html will need to be created.
• Create results filter controls (Flights and Car Hire)
• The users ability to register to the website and create ‘alerts’ about specific deals according to geographical locations
• The layout must be neat, no pop-ups and with clean, non-intrusive Adsense/Banners/Social Networks elements.
Admin Requirements
Need an admin area to manage the reservation companies and every single travel facility (hotels, airports, etc.) and the possibility to add/remove them one at a time or as a result of common (e.g. remove all the hotels of France/all the two-star hotels or all the structures without internet access) and more specific filters.
We must be able to manually add a single item (hotel, flight, travel deal, etc.) to the database with pre-defined and user-defined fields. The hoteliers/renters should have the possibility to add/modify the photos, description and availability of their facilities.
Reference sites to build the website:
[login to view URL]
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[login to view URL]
Developer Requirement
We want a complete and realistic step-by-step work plan with deadlines. Payments will be made as milestones are reached.
The chosen freelancer should be, open to ideas and a 100% focused on the project. A long-term commitment is possible as we’ll need a maintainer for the website. We are a small company with a limited budget, however we want this to be done right the first time and would invite all fair bids. We have a number of other upcoming projects and would like to build a relationship with the successful developer.
If the freelancer has some good ideas to develop the project we are open to suggestions. Excellent communication skills are required. We will discuss (via Skype) every phase of the project. A brief report every three days is needed.
We will own all copyrights to all work upon payment.