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	<title>Chris Gilligan &#187; new media&#187; Adventure Travel</title>
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		<title>Rafting and Adventure Travel Site with Reservation Form</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gilligan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://chrisgilligan.com/portfolio/rafting-adventure-travel-reservation-form/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-166" title="Southeastern Expeditions" src="http://chrisgilligan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Picture-1-150x150.png" alt="Southeastern Expeditions website" width="150" height="150" /></a>
<p>This adventure travel website runs from a simple CMS that allows the site owners to make frequent changes to content, advertising their seasonal specials.<br />

<a href="http://chrisgilligan.com/portfolio/rafting-adventure-travel-reservation-form/">Learn more about the Southeastern Expeditions website  &#187;</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_166" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://southeasternexpeditions.com/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-166" title="Southeastern Expeditions" src="http://chrisgilligan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Picture-1-300x293.png" alt="Southeastern Expeditions website" width="300" height="293" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Southeastern Expeditions website</p></div>
<p>This site, for an adventure travel company that runs rafting and eco-tourism trips in North and Central America, features a clean interactive design and extensive <a href="http://chrisgilligan.com/search-engine-optimization/">search engine optimization</a>, including tailored metatags, hyperlinks, and a backlink referral network.<span id="more-165"></span></p>
<p>The site also features a simple reservation form that collects all information needed by booking specialists to bill for trip deposit and contact the customer to seal the deal, and saves the info in a secure database for retrieval.</p>
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<li>Joomla Content Management System allows owners to update information, add new pages and modules to highlight season specials</li>
<li>TLS/SSH: secure encryption of confidential customer information</li>
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		<title>Adventure Travel Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gilligan</dc:creator>
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Austria Adventure Week is a promotional sub-site for Bike Tours Direct, U.S. representative for European adventure tours. <br /><a href="http://chrisgilligan.com/portfolio/adventure-travel-website/">Adventure Travel Website &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_104" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.austria-adventure-week.com"><img class="size-medium wp-image-104" title="Austria Adventure Week" src="http://chrisgilligan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/picture-21-300x240.png" alt="Austria Adventure Week website" width="300" height="240" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Austria Adventure Week website</p></div>
<p>I worked with <a href="http://www.biketoursdirect.com/">Bike Tours Direct</a> to create this sub-site to promote their Austria Adventure Week package, a 2-week trip catering to mountain bikers and trail runners.  We picked an open source WordPress template and made some minor tweaks to personalize it for the site by replacing a few images and adding navigation tabs.<br />
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<li>Easy to use WYSIWYG editor allows administrators to quickly make edits, add pages or images, etc.</li>
<li>Comment feature for visitors to ask questions and get quick answers</li>
<li>SEO &#8212; Search Engine Optimization for automated submission to Google, MS Network, and Yahoo; automated SEO-friendly titles, URLs and descriptions</li>
<li>Custom contextual navigation system</li>
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