David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

I've nearly finished Hotel Room UK, a website specialising in (well) hotel rooms!

This is my first travel site and I thought I could do with one in my portfolio!
 
The site lists premium brands such as Marriott Hotels and Ramada Jarvis Hotels .

I tried contacting Superbreak as I was going to use them but after 5 emails and a post on A4U, I still had no response so I've gone to the hotels direct. I suppose this is probably better as I would book direct with Renaissance Hotels (for example) if I was booking a trip, rather than using something like Superbreak.

I'm going to add a few more hotels soon. I've been accepted by some other premier chains so it's just a case of adding those to my datafeed.

The design is sleek and minimalist, with plenty of links to the hotels in question:



As for the backend of the site, it is all custom built from the ground up. It's taken a couple of days to get this far which isn't too bad. Mind you, I spent a day populating the datafeed - getting X/Y coordinates to make the UK and Ireland Hotel Map facility work was a bit of a nightmare.

There's still a few things I've got to do. The XML sitemap and RSS feeds are up and running but these need slight tweaks. The UK and Ireland Hotel Map facility needs playing with (I want to change the markers to different colours for each of the hotel chains). I also want to add some mis-spellings to the site. After Richard's Comment, I want to see whether this works. Whereas LoveHoney (adult content) redirect to a search page, I am going to redirect to the correct landing page. So Cardifff Hotel would link to Cardiff Hotel and so forth. I have a piece of software that can construct typos in an instant so all I need to do is create a typos datafeed and parse it. It's so easy when you know how!

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