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ToggleTravel portal development Technology:
Frontend: NextJs, App Router
Backend: Django, Wagtail
Problem with old solution:
Challenges
Their previous website lacked mobile optimization, leading to a decline in engagement from phone and tablet users.
The design was text-heavy, which contributed to a higher bounce rate.
An outdated and uninspiring design discouraged potential guests from booking.
In a highly competitive market, standing out with a memorable website is essential for attracting guests over competitors.
Old website was made in WordPress, Downtime and malware infection was frequent. Also it experienced a DDOS attack, which made the site unstable and heavy.
Objective / Goals:
Enhance the overall aesthetic and user experience to make the site more engaging and accessible.
Significantly improve the mobile experience and performance.
Create a user-friendly and visually appealing business and recommendations story with improved navigation and filtering.
Reorganize and expand the packages for better search functionality, increasing lateral navigation and content discovery.
Boost social engagement and referral traffic through advanced social media integrations.
Implement a fully responsive solution for seamless user experience across all devices.
What modules were there in Backend Travel Portal?
Features of Travel Portal Headless CMS
- Workflows: Create Workflows for Content Moderation, Junior guy puts all content in the page, but can not publish, The Program manager who knows about the product, reviews the content and marks the content to be posted.
- Multilevel moderation Allowed, to make sure, errors that has happened earlier related to infringement does not happens here.
- Users: Create multiple role based users, for eg. Sales people will only be able to view enquiries, content creators will not be able to view enquiries etc.
- Not all itineraries are same, Customize your backend. Categorise the itineraries and create custom fields accordingly on the fly.
- Search Itineraries
- Special offers: Promote selected packages on home page.
- Similar packages: Cross sell your other packages
- Multiple types Hero support: Use gallery, single image, landscape video or mobile video
- Currency converter: Dependent on third party api pricing.
- Local pricing display: If opened in india, price will show in INR, if opened in australia price will be shown in AUD
- Seo And Marketing: Search engine optimisation and marketing tools
- Site history: Full transparency into who has made changes
- Customisable workflows: Control who can moderate, review, and publish content
- Revision rollbacks: Rollback to the version that you want to share with the world
- Scheduling: Take full control over your editorial calendar
- Commenting and notifications: Editors can review and request content changes directly in Wagtail
Headless CMS Solution for Travel Portal
1st phase:
Convert the WordPress to headless and run whole site using nextjs as frontend. It took 3-4 days to execute the task, so that we don’t have downtime
2nd phase:
Team prepared different platform for the CMS part, which was decided as Django and Wagtail.
Phase 3:
Bringing all together
Businesses that have shifted to NextJs
Businesses that have shifted to Python + WagTail
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