Sabre Virtual Meetings

Project Description

Sabre Virtual Meetings’ new website offers a beautiful, clutter-free design and delivers a steep list of features including: internationalization and localization in 7 languages; wide-screen, high-resolution, dual-lighting photography; comprehensive social and SEO integration and, of course, highly customizable CMS-driven pages. In addition, we engineered this solution with nearly perfect performance scores and robust back-end performance even on entry-level hardware.

Information

Completion Date: Sunday 23 Jun 2013
Website Address: URL is not public at this time

Credits

Producer: Andrea O'Neill
Graphic Designer: Andrea O'Neill
Photography: Nick Nacca
Site Developer: Martin Koistinen

Form, Function & Performance Features

Home
Solution
Resources
Polls

Immersive, wide-screen photography

CMS-controlled, carousel images bleed wider than many screens and transition to black for an immersive presentation

Dual-Lighting Effect

Each scene was shot twice, each expertly lit by esteemed photographer Nick Nacca for this stunning effect.

Unique Floating Quicklinks Panel

On this front page, scrolling the page up moves only the QuickLinks panel. On smaller screens, the page initially presents this section so that the title of this section–inside the peak of the wavy edge–floats into place at the bottom of the display.

Superb Frontend Performance

Tested using PageSpeed at 99%, Yahoo 99% and Pingdom 100%, this site features nearly perfect end-user performance. And it shows too, tested loading times are only a little more than 1/2 of a second.

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Retina Imagery

High-DPI or Retina display imagery on devices that can support it.

Banner Scheduling

Banners can be scheduled to be included in the rotation (or not) depending on upcoming promotions or to provide coordinated key messaging.

Featured Resources

The front page allows 9 resources to be featured on Sabre’s whim. 10 if you include the one above.

Superb Backend Performance

The solution was architected from the bottom up to provide superb performance. The result is that this solution out-performs other websites likely to be visited by the same audience but requires a fraction of the hardware and IT Infrastructure costs of the other sites.

Comprehensive SEO Support

This site provides a number of features for awesome SEO results including: semantic markup, descriptive resource names, automatic page titles to support the customer’s goals, per-page support for meta-descriptions and keywords, automatic and always up-to-date sitemaps (XML). It even automatically informs the search engines when the sitemaps have been updated for the fastest search-result updates.

Mailing List Integration

A seamless MailChimp mash-up means that visitors who choose to, become double-opt-in subscribers automatically.

Link Control

One of the bespoke applications we built for this project includes a links app, which allows links of all sort to be defined and reused, all presented precisely as the designer intended. Different types of links are treated in a clear and communicative manner according to their function. Also, different styles are supported to convey different intent.

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Multi-language Support

Comprehensive internationalization and localization in 7 languages with more easily added.

Deep Social Support

Social links are split into "Sharing Via" links at the top of most pages and "Follow us" links in the footer. Sharing links are tightly integrated into the CMS to provide custom Twitter or Facebook suggested messages unique to each page. Shortlinks via Bit.ly are used on each Tweet to provide more room for messages and help us track the social amplification.

Interchangeable Elements

Elements called “resources” allows almost anything to be featured in a design standard way, almost anywhere on the site. Resources can be site pages, external destinations, downloads, videos, PDFs, polls or whatever else Sabre requires.

Easy Retina Support

Each resource image is Retina resolution. The CMS manages these images automatically. The CMS-user only needs to supply one image.

Performant Retina Support

Supporting High-DPI images doesn’t mean we have to suffer long downloads. This site determines what size images are required BEFORE they are downloaded, this means fewer downloads, a snappier presentation and lower IT costs.

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Resource Filters

Although similar to the QuickLinks on the front page, this page can contain dozens of resources and is sortable and filterable by the viewer.

Engaging Poll Pages

The results of a previously closed poll can be featured to provide more page interest and to engage viewers quickly.

Clear poll results

Poll results are presented in a compact, tasteful and communicative manner.

Easy Poll Creation

Polls can be created in seconds by the CMS-operator. Each can also have a set schedule to automatically open and close to reduce maintenance requirements on the CMS-operator.

Capture Poll Interest

Other polls are displayed beneath the selected one to capture more input from visitors who enjoy the poll experience.

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Poll Filters

This website is designed to appeal to multiple audiences. We provide filtering of content to help visitors find the content that is important to them. The Poll page is no exception.