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Santa’s Magical Trail – a fun filled and action-packed experience for children young and old!

Now in their 9th year Kildare’s Santa experience was recognised for its ECommerce excellence.

The awards took place in The K Club in November to a full house of over 300 local businesses.

The new ECommerce Website was designed and developed by Graphedia Kidlare, with a host of custom built features to help people book the event and hotel rooms online. The success of the site meant that dates with hotel rooms were sold out within hours.

Event booking engine features

Allows the client to load multiple places by date and time

Allows the client to create multiple products or events

Coupon code and private booking features

Extendable reporting module

Realex payments integration

PDF ticketing with QR codes

REST API to allow external integrations

Hotel booking engine features

Allows the client to load bedrooms by type

The system automatically assigns rooms based on occupancy

Timer on checkout like Ticketmaster to ensure tickets are sold fairly.

Newsletter integration

Financial reports and stats

Full room and occupation report

You can visit the website here

You might have noticed we have launched a ‘little project’ we have been working on for almost 10 YEARS!!

OUR BRAND NEW SUPER FUNKY, COMPLETELY OVERHAULED WEBSITE IS FINALLY LIVE!

Ta-da! Fan-fare! Trumpets! Drum Roll! Dancing Boys ….Ok, maybe not that last piece!

We are so excited to launch our new look Graphedia.com website that has been in the making for almost 10 years.

Phew, that was a lot of work and a long time coming!

The team here at Graphedia have been flat out working on a crazy amount of funky new websites for our clients that we barely had time to create our own super cool new site (See? We look after you first!)

Graphedia.com is a state of the art, mobile responsive site that we custom built, from scratch, to meet our own very specific company needs. Yep, we are just that good 😉

Our Creative-Juicy Bits!

We wanted to be able to showcase the very best of our work, our coolest designs, our most awesome apps and in general we wanted you to see all of our creative-juicy bits! (We even thought about making it glow in the dark!)

It was also important to us that we could give you heaps more great info about our services, provide a place for support and help for our clients and allow our clients to pay for our services right there on our website. Haaandy!

The site was custom designed , from scratch, with a whole new look, new branding and a heap of techy stuff that our incredible team of super-nerds worked on diligently until it was just right.

In fact, excuse us while we nerd out for a second;

The Techy Stuff

Graphedia.com is;

Fully responsive site, built on top of Twitter Bootstrap.
Custom developed AJAX portfolio section & portfolio sliders.
Custom developed share feature.
Custom social media feeds.
Parallax scrolling effects.
Uses the latest JavaScript and CSS3 techniques.
We used only minimal off the shelf plugins which increases the security of our site, as well as increase load times.
We use the latest caching techniques, gZIP compression and minification of our code to serve our site as fast as possible.
SEO optimised.
We use the latest SDK’s from Google+, Facebook & Twitter to analyse social interaction with the new website.
Full use of the latest techniques to get the most out of Google Bot such as “Schema” tags and “rel” tags on links.

Ah, that felt good!

Ok, time for the sentimental bit:

I (Niall) want to extend a HUMUNGOUS thank you to my awesome team who drove this project and put up with all of my often picky, perfectionist requests! Sarah, Brendan, Corey, – you guys are legends (Hi Bobby, thank you too). And a huge thanks to my kids too for badgering me every morning for the last year – “Dad, Dad, is it done yet?”