After a struggle of 11 months we have finally completed a new website about outdoors activities in Pelion-Greece: pelion-paths.gr.The idea for the website was initially from the Mouresi Municipality
and was a part of a greater vision: to create an automated on-line system that will provide the tourists with a tool that would help them plan and conduct hiking trips, boat trips, car rides and mountain-bike rides towards the physical exploration of the area on mount Pelion in Greece.
The website consists of 5 main sections:
The first approach of the project was made during February-May 2006 where the project's goals were analyzed and the draft plan was explained in detail to the officials.
The project was outsourced to our team right after a public competition held out by the local authorities during June 2006, and we begun to build it right after our contract agreement was signed, on July 2006. Our estimation was to complete in 8 weeks, but that was a dream that never came true.
Due to the complexity of the project (we had to build our own interactive map with navigation, on-demand point display etc) and the diversity of data sources (photographers, text-writers, hiking experts etc) we finally posted the primary beta version on October 24, 2007 and several follow ups since then.
