PhotoPanorama is a Virtual Tour Company and Panoramic Photographer based in Clitheroe, Lancashire. Photo Panoramas professionally tailored service will deliver a specially made Interactive Virtual Tour to suit all your media needs, available in both web friendly and hi definition formats.
The Photo Panorama web site has been in operation for a number of years and over time the content has grown and grown. As such, the main purpose of the specification was to implement a content management system which would make life easier for PhotoPanorama, without changing the site design or theme as well as implementing some neat features that make the site more appealing to users.
Give me a call Read more >>
The "Give me a call" feature allows the user to easily submit a form without having to refresh the page - and it even automatically slides down after a given number of seconds to attract the users attention! This has been done very candidly, to ensure that it isn't at all obtrusive.
Travel cost expenses Read more >>
The web site offers the ability to calculate "Travel Cost Expenses" for Photo Panorama to visit their premises. User types in their email address and Post Code and the web site goes and fetches the travel directions from Google Maps in order to determine the driving time and distance between Photo Panorama and the customer. A price is then delivered to the email provided.
Link management system Read more >>
A Link Management System has been implemented in the form of a Company Portfolio. Links to external sites are offered with a small thumbnail image shown beside the title and description. By simply typing in the URL Photo Panorama wish to add, the web site goes and gathers the internal description and associated keywords then takes a screen shot of the site and resizes the image into various sizes of thumbnails. All images are downloaded once the page has loaded so that slower connections need not wait to see the links.
Content management system Read more >>
The entire structure of the site is controlled through the administration system with 2 template pages and a Site Map System. The two templates are used for the Virtual Tour and Still Photography pages. Both templates are designed to contain up to 9 items on each and each item has their own popup window. The technology behind this is very complex and extremely powerful - but most importantly, unbelievably flexible.
This version of the system can even stitch together an image from the QuickTime virtual tours (.mov), which can then be cropped and used as a thumbnail for the Virtual Tour, all from inside the browser!
"It’s rare to find a company that do what they promise – but UDS did… My website looks superb & to me Image is VERY important. Managing my website was very time-consuming – so part of my brief was that it must be easy to manage – here UDS have EXCEEDED my expectation. I can now present MORE content, with LESS effort. A lot of people promise many, often unrealistic things about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) – but UDS was realistic & did what was said. My ‘SEO’ performance has quickly reached it’s target & through UDS' work (both ‘site design’ PLUS ongoing work) it continues to improve. All things considered, an excellent job - I would have no hesitation in recommending UDS"
Dean Weaver - Photo Panorama
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