The Custom Website Experience in Action
Gregg Blanchard /
A few weeks ago I spent five days analyzing ski resort websites. At the end I offered an idea about how potentially you could overcome information overload and navigation nightmares. I called it the custom website experience.
During the weeks following, a few resorts thought the idea was worth a closer look and wondered when I would finish coding a version that would they could play around with. I’ve spent some time the last few days putting together that very thing.
Here it is, the Custom Website Experience v1.0:
https://www.slopefillers.com/cwe/
It is not live on a resort website, simply an illustration of how it could work. Since this is verions 1.0, there are some features missing that I am yet to add:
- Visual layouts for each area (pictures of hotels, rental equipment, etc.)
- Form at the bottom that remembers last search and updates initial values accordingly
- More targeted results for the lift tickets area (account for midweek, weekends, students, seniors, etc.)
- Delayed pop-over for the initial welcome screen
- Implementation of cookies to know if the visitor has already seen the CWE pop-over
- The ability to book rooms, buy tickets, etc. from one page
Anyhow, it’s there, probably full of bugs and typos, but it works on a very basic level and wanted to share to get feedback and ideas.