Web Site name

HI Team,

I want you all to contribute your suggestions for choosing the name of thewebsite. I had a session with Karan about this and we concluded few names...like
www.expressholidayz.com, www.bookpackgo.com, www.desirableindia.com, etc..etc..etc..

We would appericiate if you have any ideas about this as it really takes a lot of time for deciding the name, slogan and logo.
As you all must be aware, it would be a hotel booking site in the first phase and later a complete holidays site.

I did not have anything about the suggestions as I could not see any changes in the present site. I hope we will complete it in stipulated time.

Kindly update,
Guddu

Check in Date

In the sech panel, check in date should always be lower than the check out date. Its should not accept otherwise..

Guddu

Reply from Team eXpressMinds

Hi Guddu, Karan

Have taken a note of all your mentioned points.Here is my take on some of them

Karan, hey regarding the green theme: It would be a lot more effort to change the green theme now as it could have been if this was told earlier, but anyways we will do it.

Guddu, we have currently fixed the resolution to 1024*768 as told by Karan.
Do you want the vertical expanse of the page also reduced ? Horizontal expanse it fitting the browser in the mentioned resolution in both IE and firefox.

and regarding MAP thing for a zone or region... We already have this feature we can associate an image / or a MAP with each zone or region or state.

Rest of the mentioned points are fine with us and we will put it our efforts to take into account your feedback.

Thanks for your feedback
Keep pouring in more...

Team eXpressMinds

Window Size

HI guys,

1. Can this window fit into my pc screen? The page size should not be more than the actual size of the screen.
2. Can we have a map which gets displayed after user is searching for hotels in a particular city. and then we have an additional button for more information about the historical facts and findings about that place.

guddu

hi guys

Dear Team,

Finally I am also here..will not be contributing much to your work but would be a valuable critic...

Guddu

Header Image

Guys,
use this image for the header for the moment. Later again we will it with better graphic.
Let me know if u cant take this img from the blog, then i'll send u the email.
thx

Homepage Review , Phase II

Dev Team,
Thanks for the changes i requested. Please go through the list of new features we like to amend in the site.

1. Menu:- The green color scheme for the menu doesn't have corporate look and is not even smooth with the rest of the page. We need a simple menu, nothing complex,even without a javascript. So please use these two shades for a new look. First is f27d12 (Orange shade) and second is 004183 (Dark blue shade). Please discourage the use of Green color at all. Replicate the menu structure & design from www.yatra.com
   
2. Menu:- We don't require two separate menus on the top, reform it into one. There is enough room for it.
3. Search Panel:- Please takeoff the "Get information" link from the panel. We will fit this link somewhere else on the page later.
   
4. Search Panel:- Replace the existing used font with the verdana in small size.
   
5. Check in & check out textfields:- Make them readonly so the user has to choose the date from the popup only. This would avoid any mistake in filling the dates.
6. Search Panel:- Increase its width to make calendar icon in same line with the textfield.
7. Logo:- Regarding the image i have to speak with Guddu and later come back to you. In the mean time please takeoff the blinking logo.

Please have a look at these point and give me a shout.

bye
Karan

link to the site

http://www.expressminds.net/Hotel_Project


You can access the site using the above link.

Deadline for Initial release

To Gaurav,

After having a discussion with Guddu on the development work, we reached to the conclusion that we need to see the system working by 23 FEB. This would be the beta release of the system. Delays or excuses would not be taken into consideration.

After this we will test the system for 10 days and then later it will be launched on a new domain. Second phase of development will go side by side. This is very crucial for our business , as after this guddu has to do plenty of work like Domain Registration, Company Registration, Payment gateway and preparing graphic printing material on the site.
Should u require more info, give us a shout.

Thanks.
Karan

hyperLink

Hi Gaurav,
can u send us the hyperlink to the alpha release asap.

And also send an invitation to guddu for this blog. He wants to publish some posts now.

thanks

Karan

Alpha-version feedback incorporated !

Hi Karan,

Thanks for the feedback,
As per your suggested changes, I will proceed point by point and give our take on the things as they stand now!

Point 1: Horizontal Scrollbar

Rectified. By adjustments to our header regions.
*Development time was mostly spent with firefox, where this scroll didnt used to come..so the glitch

Point 2: TOPMARGIN=0
Done! set topmargin and other required margins for all the pages.

Point 3: Image banner/Logo
Regarding the logo, I guess you already will be having some logo to be used in all your communications. We wait for you to update us with your logo.
Still, we have shown another option on the site: have a look :)

Point 4: Font
Yes, font adjustments and things like this wont require much time once the functionality and other things get to top working condition.
Still done a few we could notice.

Point 5: Javascript calendar popup:

Rectified it, as per your requirements.

Point 6: Green buttons, done a bit of change just to make them look equal for the time being, feel free to give some good suggestion on it.

Point 7: Taken it off :) : Need some suggestion again on this as that was just a sample....provide inputs as what you want to be filled there

Point 8: Done a bit of manipulations, filled some data in db.

Keep sending us feedback on the alpha version !

Thanks
eXpressMinds Inc.

Changes

Hi Karan
We will get back to you soon after the changes.

Team
eXpressMinds

Home Page Review (Urgent)

For Dev team, Feedback/Corrections Required urgent.
Most of the issues i reported in the last email has not been rectified, so i'm noting the points down again.

1. First download the desktop Sizer tool from the internet. Optimize the website size for 1024x768 px screen. I can still see the horizontal scrollbar.

2. In the body Tag, overwrite the TopMargin attribute to zero.

3. The img banner on the top is ok but not good enough for a travel website..Try to replace it with a sharp and bright img. And try to blend in the manner so one cannot find the gaps within the img.

4. The font used in the menu looks good, use the same font pattern for the text, Booking search panel and other panels.

5. Booking Search Panel:- The calendar popup javascript open on the top left corner in the webpage. Change the coordinates next to the popup image icon, so when a user clicks the icon it opens next to it rather than on the top.

6. The green buttons doesn't appeal to me such as Get Hotels , Get Informations etc.. The size must be little smaller to make it look elegant. And replace the green shade with the orange, as orange has more grace than green. I already gave you the RGB format of the particular Orange shade ages ago. chk in your emails.

7. Take off the india map from the website, it doesn't look nice...The website looks really desi with this img.

8. And organise the Hotel Grid properly on the right side, the main portion of the homepage. Populate the correct testing data into the db, so we can atleast view the homepage in complete.

After rectifying all the above points, leave the feedback to the post and let everyone know about it. Still i can extend this list to 20 modifications more easily...but i want to see first how quickly you guys can finish this list.

Give me a shout if u require any suggestion.

bye

Karan

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