Itransition developed an Ajax-based interactive portal that links people who traveled or will travel to certain destinations. Being a web-based social networking desktop engine, it unites traditional desktop experience with the immediacy of the Internet to give its users a new way of communication and access to information.

People can search travel deals, purchase flights and hotel fares, and with the use of ScrybeTM technology even offer or join rideshares (applicable to community members in a 30 mile radius). Users from same locations get to know each other, express their opinion about any place they visited or want to visit and find the right price for traveling.

The specific feature of this project is that it was developed literally from the Customer’s idea. Itransition conducted an intensive business analysis, and besides a technical solution and a project plan, suggested the vision of the end product and a strategy of the portal’s further development.

The web site is a nice example of a Web 2.0 portal with lots of Web services and user-generated content. The web application was organized as a blocking system, which means that only the necessary part of the page is (re)loaded — this  increased the site loading speed by at least 5 times compared to usual.

System Highlights:

• Responsive pages
• Multi-browser engine
• User-generated content
• Flights and Hotels booking
• Contextual  menu
• Drag and drop option

Technologies:

.Net 2.0, C#, JavaScript, MS SQL 2005, IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX.NET, NHibemate, Web services, memcached, NUnit