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Karamu Holden |
Create a site that leaves Ford for dust...
Whether you're a petrol head, or not, it's likely that you've heard of the Holden brand, and it's slick car designs and fantastic performance (even if you sit on the Ford side of the fence). However, when Karamu Holden first approached Xplore their website was anything but slick.
The old Karamu Holden website was dated (in both design and the techniques used to build it) and the team wasn't able to easily update it with Holden's latest deals and effectively promote their used cars section.
They needed a website that embodied the Holden brand, was easy for their team of "non-techies" to update and reflected the offline promotions Holden runs each year. They needed a suped-up website.
Automation, editability and consistency...
The Xplore design team pulled on their helmets and floored their creative peddles, as they worked to come up with a look and feel that adhered to Holden's branding guidelines, while still Karamu Holden an edge over the other NZ Holden dealers.
Editablity was also a key concern for the Xplore team and they ensured that the website was constructed to allow the Karamu Holden team complete control over their site content.
The website was also integrated with a third party, used cars sales system, that ensured Karamu Holden could update one database (with their new stock) and have their own website automatically updated.
The Geek Stuff...
The Karamu Holden website uses the following Xplore Xtools CMS modules:
- Xsite - content management system
- Xpanels - rotating image panels
- Xclusive – integration with a third party car catalogue system
The above tools provide Karamu Holden with the ability to manage all aspects of their website (and online store) themselves.
We strongly recommend them to anyone...
"Due to the way people now use the internet to shop for cars, we needed to update our existing Xplore designed website to handle those changes.
Again, Xplore exceeded our requests and expectations with a design concept that kept in line with our existing site, while giving it a fresh look.
They came up with several innovative ideas to improve our site also.
And their new Content Management System is so simple and quick to use. This is important, as the Holden brand and promotional material can change frequently, meaning we need a system to update our site easily at any time. Xplore's new CMS is that system.
Once again we are very happy with the professionalism, design work and final result achieved by Xplore.
We still strongly recommend them to anyone looking for a web design company to provide a high quality, functional website."
Jonathon Stone - Karamu Holden Hastings.