Page explaining the specs of the model we flew.
An overview of one of our most popular, long-running deals.
Page to inform our customers about ski conditions near our terminals.
OVERVIEW:
Flyaha.com was a client site built to be the customer facing ecommerce portal. At the time of writing this, it is only available on the wayback machine, the source of the screen captures. The website hosted a widget for buying plane tickets for the airline, similar to JetBlue's widget. Professionalism and Straightforwardness was the main goal for this website. The website averaged about 35k visitors every day during my employment.
Main Tech Stack:
HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, RESTful APIs
Other technologies:
C# Backend, DNS, IP Tables, Figma
TECHNICAL GOALS:
An unintended positive from this experience was managing collaboration across the Tech and Business/Marketing sectors of the company. My main objective during this project was to make something as simple as possible while still being modern, considering our audience was older and less tech savvy. I used this experience to expand my knowledge on SEO and customer retention, while improving my skills styling abstracted code, such as UI elements within the calendar that weren't actually displayed on the client side, as this was an SSR component.
NOTABLE FEATURES:
Destination Widget:
To clean up the destination page, I made a widget that would display information on hover about each place. This has been unavailable since the company shut down, however, I made a dramatization using the wine version of the map.
Main Widget:
I was in charge of re-styling the main widget on the front of the website. It only needed a slight update to be more appealing, and is also currently unavailable, but I will create a mock-up to leave here.
Daily User Boost:
By overhauling SEO and working with marketing to have lots of link-backs available on social media, we were able to boost users from about 5k daily to 35k daily
HURDLES:
Covid-19:
Covid-19 played a large role in the outcome of the company. It made it harder to come into the office to collaborate, and it made it harder to predict the market and sales. This cause lots of hiccups in development and last minute changes that needed to be implemented. Dealing with the surprises and short timeframes was invaluable exerience to a green employee like myself at the time.
Constant Changes:
Maintaining a customer facing website was a new experience. I was expected to make constant changes and improvements, all while there were many changes in the structure of the company. Dealing with new requirements and people every week was a new balancing act for my first web developement gig.
