New Website Launches for Best Western The Watermill Hotel
Posted by Andy on August 4th, 2009 - Leighton Buzzard office  

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new website for Best Western The Watermill Hotel.

Best Western The Watermill Hotel already had a web presence but approached us to design a whole new website for them. The brief included designing the website, ensuring it meets the brand compliance set out by Best Western, being able to edit the site themselves, brand new photography for the whole hotel, and bring ownership of the website, domain name and hosting to the UK. All this had to be done at absolute minimum disruption to the hotel and it's online services.

We designed the website on a test server so that the hotel could view it as we progressed. This enabled them to request changes, if required, before the design had got too far - thus saving them money. We photographed the hotel inside and out, including bedrooms, function rooms, bar, restaurant, conservatory, marquee, and gardens.

Once the site was complete we contacted their current web providers in India to arrange the transfer of the domain name to our account in the UK. Once we had control of the domain name we then changed the name servers to point at the new website. We set this to change over the night during a weekend to ensure minimal loss of email.

Throughout the whole project we liased with the hotel, their current designers in India and Best Western UK to ensure that we met all requirements of the brief.