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By Faichi Solutions Pvt Ltd on
Lexington is an exclusive New York hotel just blocks from Grand Central Terminal, The Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and United Nations Headquarters. It savors modern accommodations and world-class services that exceed the standards of today’s refined traveler. They have well-appointed conference and function rooms with stellar audiovisual capabilities.
Why Drupal was chosen:
Drupal is a powerful framework that provides out-of-the-box features that can be easily extended and customized. We could use Drupal’s existing features and customize the code where necessary. Also, Drupal’s offering of general-purpose, high-quality modules - such as Smarttrim - meant that we could employ code more quickly while meeting business requirements.
Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome):
To develop some features in the website Lexington.com, which describe the amenities and features offered by this hotel. Featurescan be enumerated as Booking Widget, Local Area, Images with multiple effects, Special offer page.
The main objectives were to position the hotel as New York's premier, luxury boutique hotel and capture a significant
share of the market, in particular weddings and meetings, and also build features like bookings for the users. The key
message of the site was - to promote the luxurious and high quality facilities on offer. To do this, we focussed on a
visually impactful design, built around lots of high quality images with multiple effects.
There are exclusive sections to check rooms, Dining, Meetings, and Wedding. All the information is added/updated as nodes via website manager.
Booking Widget: Users can do bookings using booking widget, and after putting required data they will be redirected to booking website. This was custom developed. offered by this hotel. Features can be enumerated as Booking Widget, Local Area, Images with multiple effects, Special offer page.
Various images, with multiple effects, showing the hotel’s features. These were done using Fancybox module
Local area: A map shows all the surrounded amenities of this hotel.
Special offer page where the website manager can enter current ongoing offers from backend.
Above features were custom developed.
Technical specifications
Drupal version:
Drupal 7.x
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen:
Booking Widget: Users can do bookings using booking widget, and after putting required data they will be redirected to booking website. This was custom developed.
Organizations involved:
Project team:
Gaurav Bajpai
Sectors:
Travel and Hospitality
