South Africa Accommodation directory using joomla and sobi2

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South Africa Accommodation directory using joomla

I’ve being following these group of guys for sometime now, We did a earlier post on there design and use of joomla and sobi2. Here they incorporate a slick new design and use of Jquery framework, sobi2, Ajax and many more cool features. This Accommodation directory offers a wide range of South African Accommodation based all over south Africa. They make use of interactive Google maps and plan to soon launch there beta3 stage with car hire and flights. Below we go in depth on the tools that where used and motives behind this slick professional design.

South Africa Hotels, Luxury Hotels, Holiday Travel, Travel Vacations, South Africa Accommodation, Cheap Hotels

The Guys from Sastay where faced with a number of issues in there post discussion prior to this design. They not only wanted to make use of a user friendly website but also the use of rich and professional colors. Although this is just there beta stage, i am sure what’s to follow is going to be mind blowing. The use of Joomla and sobi2 here was a lethal combination. This by far is one of the nicest CSS design’s i ve reviewd in a long time.

Your comments welcome…

Website to Sastay.co.za

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2 Comments

1-24-2009

couldn’t agree with you more – very neat result

Sandra
2-17-2009

It looks very nice and tidy.
However I do think that the search function could be better.
Also it seems to me that the look and feel of the site is a bit too sterile for South Africa. It is also not advertised that we will be hosting the FIFA 2010. This would be a good feature for the site.

Stephen

Stephen