Azzura Yachts

Built on the Smarty Templating Engine, Azzura Yachts show off the Yachts in the best possible way - the entirely of the content area fades between images of the Yacht, with any contextual information overlayed on top. This text can be hidden at the user's convenience in order for them to fully appreciate the images. They can also pause the images from fading to one another if one particularly takes their fancy. Azzura Yachts hooks into a WordPress backend for its news items.

The use of Smarty allows for an efficient design paradigm, whereby a new page has certain expectations of the content that it will be displaying; where it will get its text, where it will get its images, etc. In this way, when a new page is created all that is required to provide it with content is to put that content in the expected folders.

For example, if a new yacht was created called "Azzura", it might expect its images to be stored in /images/motor-yachts/azzura. By putting the images in this folder, the page will automatically grab them and use them for display.

Azzura Yacht's news items are displayed using AJAX, or Asynchronous Javascript and XML. While we're not using XML specifically, the principle remains the same - the page is able to gather the headlines and content for the news items without having to load an entirely new page. This means that viewers can browse the headlines without having the page reload all the extra images and content around the news item - AJAX means only what is required is downloaded.

Designer: EATDESIGN

Developer: withoutboundary