Foreach HOME ABOUT NEWS SOFTWARE JOBS CONTACT BLOG Home News Resto.be revamped Resto.be revamped Resto.be is the most important restaurant site in Belgium and the number three in Europe. More than 28.000 unique visitors per day use resto.be to find information about restaurants, caterers or specialty gourmet shops. The portal also offers promotions (Valentine, Mother's Day, etc), online reservations and reviews. Resto.be is part of a platform and integrated with an online booking module, RestoBookings, and action sites RestoBigDeal and RestoDays. Foreach is proud to be the main development partner of Resto.be. We started working for Resto Group early in 2011 on RestoDays.be, which supports a national campaign that books 40,000 meals in 2 weeks time. Our main task was to enhance the performance of the site and to make sure that it could handle a large number of reservations in a very short period of time. After successfully achieving our target, we were asked to rework RestoBookings.be, RestoBigDeal.be, hotels.be and a couple of small websites. In May this year Resto Group asked us to develop a new version of their main portal Resto.be. On 6 November 2012 the new and improved resto.be was launched. The portal now boasts a modern, attractive and accessible design, a new stable and user friendly back end (which was very important for the administrators of Resto and for the restaurant owners), lots of new functionalities for the user (e.g online bookings, new selection possibilities like stars, location, kitchen type, etc.) and an integration of modern technologies like SEO and Solr search engine. For this project we also used a layered building process (database, services and front end) because this way of working makes it very easy to continuously expand the platform in a clean and consistent way. We implemented the new design that was delivered by a third party and for this implementation we used LESS, a CSS framework which makes it easy to write styling rules in a faster and more object driven way. Besides the new design Foreach integrated the online bookings module we developed for RestoBookings.be last year. The module makes it possible for the visitor of the site to see immediately if the restaurant of his/her choice is bookable on the selected date and if there are promotions available. Once the booking is complete the user and the restaurant receive an e-mail and optionally an sms with the confirmation of the reservation date and time. The day after the reservation date, the user receives another e-mail to provide feedack about the restaurant. An important note for this functionality is that only the restaurants who are partner of Resto.be can offer online bookings. Through extensive Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), we made sure Resto.be ranks on top in Google and in other search engines. We achieved this by: using clean URL's using rich snippets (e.g. star quotations) using keywords using an extensive sitemap using internal linking and by working with clear tree structures on the site Resto.be is multilingual (Dutch, French and English), so the search results are optimised for these three languages. This is very important for the promotion of the restaurants, the caterers and the luxury food providers. The next step was to make sure the visitors of resto.be can search the site in a user friendly and effective way. To this purpose we implemented the open source search engine Solr. During the development and afterwards we executed several tests (QA-, unit-, integration- and automation of web application testing) to make sure we offered a qualitative result to our customer. Besides testing we monitor the servers with Zabbix, so we are immediately alerted by mail and SMS in case hardware or software problems occur. The launch of the new site was a success, but this is just the beginning. Resto group is planning to continuously update and expand resto.be, e.g. with extensive social media integration. Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn December 15, 2012 News Archive Hiring in 2016 In 2016 we are looking to hire 12 new colleagues, both junior and senior profiles. 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