Case Study: Adventure Journey

Industry

Adventure Travel

Project Type

Community Website

creative:

  • - User Experience Design
  • - Information Architecture
  • - Graphic Design
  • - Animation Design

TECHNOLOGY:

  • - ASP.NET, C#.NET
  • - Flash
  • - HTML/CSS
  • - JavaScript
  • - XML
  • - Web Services
  • - SQL Server
  • - Community Server
Case Study: Adventure Journey

Community Website

Adventure journey is a community site with features similar to Face Book and My Space, providing features like: forums, galleries, blog posts, and sharing stories and adventures with the community. The site focuses on travelers and adventures with the goal to facilitate an exchange of experiences, stories, travel tips, and destinations. A carefully integrated advertising component allows the administrator to run campaigns. The ad system is carefully balanced between profitable ad placement and non-obtrusive, user friendly layouts.

Launch Site

Key Features

  • Heavy customization and additions to Community Server Templates and Functionality
  • Captia integration
  • Custom user account functionality
  • Custom blog functionality
  • Custom world region based forum functionality
  • Custom photo album and gallery functionality
  • Custom search functionality
  • Advertisement system integration
  • Users can create an account and contribute content, stories, and travel tips from their adventures with the community
  • Region based forum system that allows for customization by the user
  • User Managed Galleries with photo albums for organization and the ability to share with friends or publicly
  • Real Time RSS syndication and feeds based on a section-by-section basis as well as global aggregation
  • User scoring system for articles to encourage community involvement