June 23rd, 2008 - Featured Site
Extreme Arizona conducts tours in the Arizona desert, and also rents ATVs and motorcycles, as well as personal watercraft. They had a need to provide their customers with information about the available vehicles, and produce rental estimates based on customer selections. The site was constructed with PHP, MySQL and AJAX, and features a management console to allow self-maintenance of prices, page text and more.
All of the text on the site, as well as the tab definitions, etc, are stored in a MySQL database. This allows for easy maintenance of the site, as the owners can modify the text at will. While the images used to construct the site are stored on the web server, the images of the actual vehicles are stored in MySQL along side descriptions and pricing, again, making maintenance easier for the owner.
The home page is simple, and designed to inform the user about what the company offers without requiring the visitor to do a lot of reading. The primary image, along with the three images at the bottom convey Extreme Arizona's purpose.
The guided tour and rental pages let the visitors see what vehicles are available. clicking on the vehicle shows a larger picture and provides some information about the vehicle.
The directions tab makes use of the Google Maps API to provide a detailed, scrollable and zoomable map to Extreme Arizona. You can even get a satellite or hybrid view just like the Google Maps web site.
Of course no web site is complete without a form to let the visitor contact the company electronically. The contact form allows the visitor to compose a message to the company without exposing the company's e-mail address, and uses a back-end message processor to reduce the potential for a spammer to abuse the system.
The system also allows the visitor to optionally sign up to receive e-mails and special offers. The system stores the users information in a MySQL database and can be extracted into an Excel or CSV format using the management console.
The management console lets the site owners perform many tasks that allow them to maintain their own site, such as changing the page text, and managing the the available vehicles. All of the descriptions and pictures of the available vehicles are stored in the database and are maintained via the management console, which is also web based.
I invite you to check out the Extreme Arizona site, but please remember it is a live site, not a demo. If you are interesting in having me build a site for your business, please use my contact page to send me a message.