Can you describe your business?
Hamilton Island Entreprises aims to promote Hamilton island as a holiday destination and encourage more Australian and International visitors to choose Hamilton Island as their holiday destination. Hamilton Island is the largest inhabited island in the beautiful Whitsunday Islands located just off the Queensland Coast. With direct flights daily, a wide range of hotels, rental properties, restaurants, activities, shops, special events and regular daily tours to The Great Barrier Reef and Whitehaven Beach, it is one of Australia's premier holiday destinations. In 2009 Hamilton Island will be launching a new Golf Course and Yacht club to further enhance Hamilton Island's reputation as a world class holiday destination.
Why did you choose ASP.NET 2.0?
ASP.NET supports more powerful and robust server-side programming languages such as C# and Visual basic in contrast with most other non-compiled scripting language. This helped us in building a more responsive and rich user interface.
How did ASP.NET AJAX help you improve your user experience?
Techniques like partial page updates in AJAX reduces round trips to the server and enable incremental page UI updates this improved the user interaction speed. ASP.NET AJAX cross browser compatibility is another important feature which improves user experience across all platforms.
What ASP.NET AJAX features did you take advantage of?
Using ajax collapsible panels and modalPopup for image library has improved the overall download speed for this website.
What was the ASP.NET AJAX development experience like?
ASP.NET AJAX was extremely easy to deploy on our website. Not having to code or debug lot of client side java script allowed me to focus more on application functionality.
What other Microsoft technologies does your site use?
Visual studio 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft IIS 6.0, Microsoft SQL SERVER 2005