Challenge
The owner of Aus Flying, Mike Nash, turned to us for assistance with the development of an online platform where pilots could hire aircraft by location or manufacturer, and plane owners could list their aircraft for hire or sale.
The client wanted us to use WordPress as the content management system. Initially, he provided us with the designs of the essential pages so that we could make and launch an MVP as quickly as possible.
While the website's aesthetics were important, too, it was the functionality that defined the success of the entire project. Specifically, Mike requested the following features and capabilities:
- Listing planes for hire or sale.
- Editing or updating details of planes listed for hire or sale.
- Saving incomplete listings so that users can finish them at a later time.
- Uploading images for a plane gallery with a drag-and-drop functionality to arrange images in a specific order, as well as selecting the main image of a plane and adding 360° images to see the plane’s panoramic view.
- Browsing aircraft listings with the ability to delete them quickly or change their status to draft.
- Sending messages to aircraft owners.
- Viewing incoming messages in the admin panel (for aircraft owners).
- Login and registration.
- Profile editing.
- Comprehensive filtering, with every taxonomy having its own filter page.
- Listing locations and makes with a link to the corresponding filter pages.
- A map showing aircraft in various regions and airports with pin auto grouping on zooming out.
Creating all that varied and complex functionality was clearly not a matter of days or even months. So, the client picked the features he wanted us to develop in the first place.
The owner of Aus Flying, Mike Nash, turned to us for assistance with the development of an online platform where pilots could hire aircraft by location or manufacturer, and plane owners could list their aircraft for hire or sale.
The client wanted us to use WordPress as the content management system. Initially, he provided us with the designs of the essential pages so that we could make and launch an MVP as quickly as possible.
While the website's aesthetics were important, too, it was the functionality that defined the success of the entire project. Specifically, Mike requested the following features and capabilities:
- Listing planes for hire or sale.
- Editing or updating details of planes listed for hire or sale.
- Saving incomplete listings so that users can finish them at a later time.
- Uploading images for a plane gallery with a drag-and-drop functionality to arrange images in a specific order, as well as selecting the main image of a plane and adding 360° images to see the plane’s panoramic view.
- Browsing aircraft listings with the ability to delete them quickly or change their status to draft.
- Sending messages to aircraft owners.
- Viewing incoming messages in the admin panel (for aircraft owners).
- Login and registration.
- Profile editing.
- Comprehensive filtering, with every taxonomy having its own filter page.
- Listing locations and makes with a link to the corresponding filter pages.
- A map showing aircraft in various regions and airports with pin auto grouping on zooming out.
Creating all that varied and complex functionality was clearly not a matter of days or even months. So, the client picked the features he wanted us to develop in the first place.
Solution
To handle the Aus Flying project, we put together a team of experienced professionals, which included:
- A front-end developer to convert the client’s designs into pixel-perfect web pages.
- A WordPress developer to integrate those pages into the CMS.
- A QA engineer to perform comprehensive testing of the website.
- A dedicated Project Manager to oversee the entire work.
As we used the Scrum framework in our development process, we worked in sprints, which first included creating new pages and modules and later updates to certain pages and functionality as well.
To handle the Aus Flying project, we put together a team of experienced professionals, which included:
- A front-end developer to convert the client’s designs into pixel-perfect web pages.
- A WordPress developer to integrate those pages into the CMS.
- A QA engineer to perform comprehensive testing of the website.
- A dedicated Project Manager to oversee the entire work.
As we used the Scrum framework in our development process, we worked in sprints, which first included creating new pages and modules and later updates to certain pages and functionality as well.
Results
The Aus Flying project is in progress. We're refining and updating the existing modules to align with the company's business needs.
While the final stages of the website development are still a way off, Aus Flying's owner is very satisfied with our performance, quality, and smooth, real-time communication with the team.
The Aus Flying project is in progress. We're refining and updating the existing modules to align with the company's business needs.
While the final stages of the website development are still a way off, Aus Flying's owner is very satisfied with our performance, quality, and smooth, real-time communication with the team.