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WindhorseTour was looking to create a new version of the website with responsive modern design, especially to improve customer experience on its website.

About the project

At some point, you can find yourself pursuing the goal to always using recent technologies and library versions. During the long-living project lifetime, it's hard to keep a clear separation when an upgrade of some technology brings benefits or you are a hostage and must to upgrade.

But what if by following technology trends we modernize business process at the same time?

At the moment of the project start, Drupal 8 and Commerce 2 finally have considered stable.
In the same time, mobile traffic has reached a significant level for WindhorseTour. That's time to improve the interface to help visitors easily find tours from their phones and tablets.
It was decided to introduce a new responsive design during migration to Drupal 8.

Requirements

  • Keep key functionality of the existing website.
  • Responsive slicing with supporting mobile and tablet devices, mail clients.
  • Improve user experience according to the new design. 
  • Migrate a big amount of content from the old website, fit to the new design.
  • Save good SEO metrics.
  • Painless moving from the new website, short downtime period.
  • High quality of development, follow Drupal best practices.
  • Integrate the website with CRM to improve the Sales team work.

Results

  • Responsive design allows customers to use the website on their mobile and tablet devices.
  • Customers can quickly find a tour using a catalog based on the SOLR facet search.
  • The Sales team moved their work to CRM, all required information from the website appears automatically.
  • All required data migrated and fit to the new design.
  • The release performed at the time with minimal visitor's activity.

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Why Drupal was chosen

The WindhorseTour team had a Drupal 7 website. At the moment of the project start, Drupal 8 and Commerce 2 finally have considered stable. It was decided to introduce a new responsive design during migration to Drupal 8.

Technical Specifications

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Key modules/theme/distribution used:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

Search modules allow building a catalog based on SOLR, which lets customers to quickly find a tour, which they are looking for, using facet filters.
Commerce modules allow the Sales team to manage tour products and orders.