01.06.2005 : kitesports site goes live
The new Paracademy Consortium web site went live today in record time including integration of back end booking systems, it can be seen at www.kitesports.co.uk
Paracademy were great partners in the development of their site, they were fully committed to the production of it and more or less dropped everything to get their content in order once the model was completed.
As well as using the XML Infinity Integral server package, Paracademy also needed their back office booking system integrated into the site as well in order to display course dates and availability and manage bookings condcuted through the site. This couldn't have been easier thanks to an XML export and import function within the booking system thus allowing availability and course information to be passed to XML Infinity and then orders generated via the web site to be passed back, creating a nice virtuous circle between all three systems.
Neil Godbold, Paracademy Chairman, said, "This is great, we really have evolved now our online prescence now and I feel as though we are delivering a great customer experience all the way from first impression through to booking and then when they arrive and come on our courses.
"What's more, one of my ideas which was to have a wealth of content available to students available online after they leave, has now been realised as well and we can add to that, growing it and tweaking it over time. So we are really happy."
XML Infinity Technical Director, Andrew Fisher says, "This was another good project for us, the content model was fairly straightforward but the integration was always the thing that could unstick us. We new the booking system they [Paracademy] have could export XML but we didn't know whether it would be useful XML or just machine generated garbage.
"As it was we talked to the developers and they were only too happy to give us their XML definitions which meant we could incorporate them into our content model wholesale. At that point it was just a question of creating a realiable feed backwards and forwards.
"I think this project shows the amazing power that XML has which people like Tim [Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW] have been banging on about for a decade now. Information should be separate from design so it can be easily manipulated and moved around without any baggage."
The new Paracademy site can be found at www.kitesports.co.uk
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