It’s never too early to start organising your Company Christmas Party, and Redseven have the expertise and the know how to help you arrange the perfect office party. We know that organising your annual Christmas party can be highly time consuming, so let us take the stress away from you this year and find you that perfect Christmas Party. We will do all the organising and hard work – you just have the fun and take all the credit!

Redseven Leisure are number one in the UK for organising hen and stag weekends and also have a large corporate client base. The new site was developed to better fulfill their growing corporate client base.

Fresh and Innovative Design

The site  was intended to be fresh and innovative in its functionality and appearance. One of the biggest priorities was its optimisation capabilities with search engines. However, it needed to be interactive to a degree and offer personalisation from a customers point of view.

Fresh and innovative in its functionality and appearance

The interface adopts many of the latest web2 techniques allowing the user to show and hide specific content. The users selections are rememberd form page to page, so if they hid sports hospitality on one page it would be hidden on the next.

Easy to Use Content Management System

We deveveloped a bespoke Content Management System (CMS) allowing Redseven staff to quickly and easily add, update and review all content on the site including photos, desktop images, page templates and meta tags.

CMS allows staff to add and amend content, images and meta data

They are able to enter content into a hierarchical structure that automatically generates an easily navigation system on the front end for users and a full text search facility. The CMS also has a complete searchable corporate venues database allowing users to find potential bisuness venues in their area.

Open Source Technology

The website uses a combination of PHP, Javascript, CSS and MySQL. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. MySQL is a relational database which, unlike most other databases, was designed from the ground up especially for the internet. The MySQL database has become the world’s most popular open source database because of its
consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It is now used in more than 10 million installations worldwide.

Cactus Language are worldwide travel consultants specialising in language travel holidays. Whether you want to learn Spanish in Spain, French in France, Italian in Italy or any other language course these are the guys that can arrange it for you. You can search from a database of over 500 language courses, view information, photographs and details of the course, school and location then book the course. You can then plan all your travel arrangements – flights, airport transfer, car hire and even travel insurance are all available on one site!

Their web site forms that basis of all their sales activities, whether it’s a an internet customer shopping on the site or a telephone customer talking to one of their travel consultants. All orders and quotes are generated by the system, which logs all correspondence to and from the customer.

The admin side of the site allows for sales consultants to closely monitor the progress of any orders they have been assigned. The beauty of cactus admin is that it is totally internet based, on a secure server and password protected. Cactus consultants are able to login to the system from anywhere in the world with a standard internet connection. No need for slow and expensive Virtual Private Network connections to your Local Area Network!

MySQL Relational Database

The MySQL database has become the world’s most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It’s used on every continent — Yes, even Antarctica! — by individual Web developers as well as many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software — including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, and Zappos.com.

Not only is MySQL the world’s most popular open source database, it’s also become the database of choice for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.) MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, Netware, giving you the kind of flexibility that puts you in control.

The MySQL database consistently scores among the top for performance, throughput and scalability. So it’s no surprise that MySQL is used for some of the most demanding, high volume, business-critical applications at companies like Associated Press, Cox Communications, Google, Lufthansa, MIT Lincoln Labs, NASA, Sabre Holdings, Yahoo and others. Companies have implemented large “scale out” web and data warehouse applications running MySQL on dozens, hundreds and even thousands of commodity Intel and Opteron servers saving millions of dollars in the process. MySQL scales to deal with billions of rows and terabytes of data making it suitable for a wide range of transactional and analytic applications.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. It is the most commonly used internet programming language and as such is one of the most stable and secure platforms.