HOSTING-GROUP

Customer’s problem

Nek Kabel spent a lot of time creating product spec sheets in PDF format. This has always been a manual and time-consuming process. They also needed these product spec sheets to be available online for customers to search and find products easily.

One of the other issues they needed to solve was that some of the products from the main website (Nek Kabel) also should be available on Nek Sealine in English only while, on the main website, product information should be available in both Norwegian and English.

The solution

We built a highly scalable and flexible attribute system with templates for organizing product specifications into tables and being able to combine multiple templates into a product type template. By using the templating system, Nek Kabel got a system that always generates the same layout structure and saves time in adding the data. The data would then be available on automatically generated PDF documents as well as directly on the website. The attribute system is also able to duplicate content from one language to a second language and thereafter modify data that are different in language.

To solve the second issue, Nek Kabel and Nek Sealine are both using exPub.net as this system has the ability to share information across websites. Thereby we were able to add all products in the main website and share to the second website without any effort at all. This again saved a considerable amount of time and resources.

Our client contacted us to develop a real-estate portal for the Thai market that was different than the others. As Hosting-Group has a long experience in developing real-estate websites, the client was confident we were up to the task.

One of the challenges we faced was to make a portal that is unique and stand out from the crowd. We worked very close with the client to develop a design mockup to visualize the site before we started development. We had to design the website for mobile and computer in mind. Important features were “near user properties” which displays properties in close proximity of the users position calculated on the fly by use of Google map. Other key features also include price history and statistics of properties split up by area and type of property.

The site also had to be in multiple languages, something Hosting-Group has more than 15-years experience in developing.