Discover Hohenau

The tourism council of my hometown asked me and a friend if we were available to develop a website showing the touristic side of our town, considering it was mostly agrarian. So we've got into the endeavour of showing a more natural and commercial side of it.

We chose WordPress as the CMS and taking into consideration the proliferation of the Paraná Pine species within the land, took it as a symbol and designed the website around this theme. We also crawled around local literature to have a very nice copywriting and accurate information about what a tourist could expect from this land.

This town is the very first one of several immigrants towns around the zone, and is the very only one to have a german name in the whole Paraguay republic. The heritage is very important in the region, so we had to use that too.

On the technical side, it ran a copy of Bulk Me Now! for the contact form; it had its own custom posts for things like stores guide, and hotels guide, and its own events calendar, that were all developed by me and my friend from scratch. There were also links with social media profiles, that were just blossoming around by that time. There was a script I wrote that also stealed the current weather from AccuWeather every 30 minutes, using cURL and an HTML extraction library that allowed me to store all the raw data from the page into an XML file an access it directly using JS.

PS: Pictures are from the Photoshop template I designed, using placeholder images. Paraguay is a landlocked country. LOL.

• WordPress, jQuery, CSS, cURL, HTML extraction library, XML.
• Photoshop, Illustrator.
• 2009