Case Studies

Some of WPLake’s favorite high-end projects that set the standard for excellence.

Web Presence

Solutions for everyone. We’ll help you with both a simple landing page or a complex online solution.

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Safari Lodges

Angama is a luxury hotel company situated in a Nature Reserve. We were approached by the team to rebuild their existing website presence. Their website is one of the primary touch points of their clients and they needed a modern look along with great performance. They also needed integration with company software and a live availability calendar with ResRequest information. Due to a large number of images, additional efforts were made to save costs on image CDN.

Key Requirements;

Provide great User Experience: fast page loading, smooth data loading and animations. Improved SEO

Extend the blog features with ajax loading and featured posts

Improve image quality and loading time (webp) and save costs by migration away from Cloudinary

Create an API bridge for ResRequest and a live availability calendar. With custom info and lazy loading for performance

Extended navigation menu

Having more than just a few items on their menu, it made sense to create a site menu that could handle sub levels, sub titles and allow grouping of site pages in a sensible way. The menu also contained a footer for quick links to important traveller information.

Blog improvements

Angama have been writing articles and blogging since 2005, and they decided it’s time to create a feature rich experience for their readers. The blog’s main page was broken up into sections, with latest articles getting a primary spot.

Live availability calendar

Visitors needed a way to see actual information about accommodation availability, which meant both site and ResRequest information. The old solution didn’t fit, and we’ve developed a new one, that merged all necessary information and had smooth data loading with great User Experience.

Masonry galleries

With the beautiful scenery, landscapes, flora and fauna you can imagine there are a lot of photos to entice visitors. The answer was to have a masonry style gallery while having the right image format (webp) for the best experience.

eCommerce

Website for selling physical products, digital downloads or membership subscriptions based on the popular WooCommerce platform.

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Photography competition and shop

TGMM is an online wildlife photo competition site. The print shop gives everyone a chance to buy prints of the best photos. The entry form is quite complex with multiple features, entrants pay for submissions, judges can moderate and give feedback to entrants and choose a winner. A custom payment method was developed and both the competition side and print shop required extensive integration to WooCommerce.

Key Requirements;

Print shop with WooCommerce and custom payment gateway

Competition entry form with moderation function

Custom HTML email notifications for participants, judges and project partners

Competition feature

The entry form allows anyone to participate in the competition, the form has multiple steps to offer a less cluttered, improved user experience. Each entry requires a donation payment with two options, one option for mobile payment used by locals and one for credit cards used by international participants. The judges have a set of tools on their dashboard to moderate all entries, choose winners and to submit comments.

Print shop

A traditional online shop that sells images printed on canvas. Anyone has the opportunity to purchase images, where profits are shared between photographer and the charity organisations. The local payment vendor didn’t have a functioning plugin for WooCommerce, so we developed a new one that works and is compatible with the other shop features and payment methods.

Custom email notifications

Email notifications are an important aspect of this project. Participants, judges and project partners receive many notifications from the website. A branded template design was required with an HTML template that looks good in popular email apps.

Portals and Dashboards

Closed platform for sharing resources and information with different levels of access.

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Partners portal for special rates

Portal for travel industry partners and booking agents. Partners have tiers assigned that give them access to special rates and offers. Like other portals there is a big set of data, in this case there are pdf files and offers which are restricted from public access. The goal of the project was to present all sorts of data in a modern way with a smooth experience, regardless of the amount of data.

Key Requirements;

Tier based access to the information

Data presentation for all the formats, like images, videos, files

Fast and smooth experience regardless of the amount of data

Rates and offers

The primary goal of the project was to provide access to tiered rates and offers to partner companies. An intuitive user interface with ajax loading offered quick loading times and gave a better experience. On the admin side it is very easy to assign restricted content and files for partners.

Ajax galleries

Large image galleries within many categories are available for download by the public. Images are available in three sizes, original, medium and small for use on social media or in print publications. A modern user interface allows visitors to filter results and find an image quickly.

Files filter panel

Each file uploaded can be assigned a title, a description and category. Users are able to filter results by property and refine it even more by category. The filters have ajax loading for content items so there is minimal load time and page refreshes even though there are hundreds of items.