Very Thai is a non-commercial site designed to connect Thai community and businesses in UK. The Ambassador and the embassy's senior staff (council) needed a dynamic website and web development by incorporating the robust technologies with flexibility to expand the site and development in future. Web7Direct delivered this site with unique Content Management System and an effective back-end support with full directory functionality. We also integrated the Google API for postcode search functionality feature to find Thai business located in UK .
The site is non-commercial and is designed to help people to connect with the Thai community. The aim is to provide easy access to all Thai things happening with Thailand in UK. Very Thai offer bags of information on Thai businesses in UK, including Thai restaurants, spa retreats, Thai supermarkets and more. We created a big database for the directory with around 200000 listings .
Very Thai approached Web7Direct about creating a dynamic website that better defines their initiatives and what's happening within the Thai community and business in UK. They wanted to incorporate robust technologies with flexibility to evolve as technologies changed. Keeping loading time down was a big priority for Very Thai. They needed to provide the links of all sites related to Thai for increasing the communication between websites and the audience. The lack of more user-centric navigation pages was their major problem to solve. The CMS based slide show banner was their important requirement to enhance the credibility of their website. They also want to create a big database of Thai business in UK as a directory and business can find businesess and register in the directory, also it's a B2B and B2C web development.
Web7Direct was able to easily identify the features that would help to improve their online perception. We provided Very Thai with a dynamic drop down jQuery program menu to easily find the needed information. The home page also delivered with a complete search option to help the targeted viewers. The big directory development is the most challenging; it was similar to yellow pages and other directories .
By focusing on the site with social media integration, our developers incorporated Twitter widget and links of Facebook and YouTube. For developing an email platform, we used PHP mailer and integrated their site with a Captcha for filtering spam mails.
The pagination links were arranged in a way to help the targeted audience to get the information without any difficulty. Our experienced hands developed a bespoke Content Management System that is easy to use for everyone without any technical skills.
The web development on the directory included a registration form for companies with options for profile listing and company rating. These help viewers to get a clear idea about the companies offering Thai services. The Google map integrated in the site provided the opportunity for companies to add their location. We integrated the Google map API and Google distance API for showing and filtering results based on postcode search. Some important features incorporated in the site are:
Web7Direct developed a strong relationship with Very Thai and the embassy to achieve their goal. The constant communication with Very Thai helped both of us to develop a credible and efficient web development. Our experienced professionals engaged web development with top technologies in programming and coding to develop a bespoke web/software development.