How do I Create a Travel Service Web Page?

Start a travel website online.

Website development is a challenging and exciting field, as is travel. The nature of providing travel services is well-suited to web applications. Travel sites need to be able to interface with the databases of many airlines and find prices, as well as interface with a large number of users. The web is an ideal medium for such a website.

Difficulty:

Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Dynamic programming language such as PHP, Python, Ruby or Perl

1. Design the site. Take into account all of the necessary user considerations. Sketching the site out on paper can help immensely. Also, try to develop a loose feature specification while doing this.

2. Design your database. You'll need to decide what information your database needs to store. Configure your database using this information. Consult the documentation for the database you use. MySQL is most common.

3. Write code to return the values your pages will need from your database. Use your feature specification to determine these values. Consult the documentation for your scripting language. You'll also need to consult the documentation of any web services you'll be integrating with. Most likely, you'll have to integrate with airlines. They can provide an API key to access their services.

4. Code the user interface. This can be done in a markup language called XHTML and a layout language called CSS. XHTML describes the structure of the interface to your browser, while CSS tells the browser how it should look. You should include some travel imagery in your design.

5. Plug the values you've created in Step 3 into the appropriate places in Step 4.

References

• Macronimous: Website development lifecycle.