Hip Hotels goes live

For the whole of May I have worked on a huge site for one of my clients. Its one of the biggest projects Ive been involved with to date and it makes a change to work on a site that grants the user a bit of intellegence You wont find any annoying "click here" prompts and there are no lists of hotels or maps to be found anywhere. You simply make choices based on the images displayed. Every mouse click changes a selection of high quality images presented to you. Again images are used to help the user make a decision, and a small amount of text teases the user, offering small snippets of history and interesting anecdotes.

The whole site was constructed around a single class, the class itself is a pretty complicated piece of code. It takes xml from the database and presents the menu, each click presents a new menu, again taken from the xml.

There's also a bespoke mp3 player built into the site, and this should appear at a later date, The music on the site is absolutely fantasctic, well worth buying.