Website Creation for Travel Design Company
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Web Development
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WordPress CMS
- Less than $10,000
- June 2015 - Ongoing
- Quality
- 5.0
- Schedule
- 5.0
- Cost
- 5.0
- Willing to Refer
- 5.0
"I’ve recommended them to many other people because they’re extremely reliable."
- Hospitality & leisure
- Miami, Florida
- 1-10 Employees
- Phone Interview
- Verified
Crafton provides custom, mobile-responsive WordPress development based on provided designs. They also provide consultation on industry best practices.
Crafton has proven to be a reliable, high-quality vendor. The website is professional, sleek, and functional; users appreciate the new functionalities. The Crafton team gives accurate project estimates and they successful translate provided designs into great Web pages.
A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
BACKGROUND
Introduce your business and what you do there.
Karvansarai is a travel design company. We create tailor-made travel experiences for our clients. I am the owner and founder.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
What challenge were you trying to address with Crafton?
I was just starting the company and building a brand. We had never built a website before. After doing research, we decided we wanted to design a website from scratch that was tailor-made for us.
SOLUTION
What was the scope of their involvement?
We had a very clear idea of what we wanted, but we couldn’t do it ourselves. Crafton helped us understand everything including hosting and all of the different aspects of building a website. They helped us make the decisions. Then we designed ourselves, in Illustrator files, what we wanted our different pages to look like. We sent our designs to them, and then they would translate our drawings into actual pages. We also specifically told them that we wanted a website where they would build it, but it would be very user-friendly for us to maintain it ourselves. The site is built on WordPress with GoDaddy as the host. The complete backend is very user-friendly so that we can regularly make our own updates and changes there.
A few of the pages are not published right now because we’re updating them. We wanted interactive maps, so they integrated the Google Maps into our site. We also wanted a timeline. It was a lot of the taking drawings and creating what they could for the web. They were very good at the design, and then it’s very functional. It works very well. They were always advising to us what would actually work on the web. From the start, they made our website so that it would be responsive. They did a lot of work in our travel design section. We have a section where users fill out a questionnaire which they designed very well. They helped us with graphics. The site is very user-friendly. We had a lot of ideas, and they helped us both manage the cost and find out what was essential to us. They helped us keep the site simple but functional.
How many resources have been assigned to your project?
I mostly interact directly with Piotr [Kulczycki, Managing Director]. Occasionally, I have interacted with someone else from his team, but he was always the main point of reference for us, and then he delegated to his team members.
How did you come to work with Crafton?
We researched many different companies that build websites, and we were warned that it’s quite a nightmare to build your own website. Then we came across Piotr’s own personal website, which is a photography website, and we really liked it. We liked the features on it. It was complex enough that it was interesting and didn’t seem generic, like many of the other ones. It seemed quite unique, but then it was also not complicated. A lot of times, they try to make something really interesting, but then it’s not user-friendly or practical. It was that right balance. We reached out to him, and he said he actually had a company, which was Crafton, who could build our website.
Before that, we had already spoken to four or five other developers. Some of them, we found their pricing was too high. We found Piotr was very fair with his pricing, and also helped us reduce our costs. His time frame was very good. The turnaround was very quick, whereas others required a lot more time.
How much have you invested with Crafton?
We have spent around $8,000 with them so far.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working with them in June 2015, and the work is ongoing. We keep adding new things.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
Could you share any evidence that would demonstrate the productivity, quality of work, or the impact of the engagement?
We do have Google Analytics on our website, so we can see what the traffic is. It's been very good. Given our business, most of our clients do come to us word-of-mouth. It’s not so much driven by the website, but it’s the first thing that new clients go and check before working with us. They usually just check the “About Us” page to see where we’ve been, what our travel design is, and then they come and work with us. The feedback from the client is always that they’re impressed. People are very impressed by the website. It looks very professional and elegant. It’s our own photography, but the way it’s been presented leaves a good impression, and then our clients come to us. We’ve had a few clients who’ve actually booked through the website, so everything functions well. The website is something that these new clients check to be sure if they want to work with us.
How did Crafton perform from a project management standpoint?
Their response time is something I was extremely impressed with. You send an email, and within five minutes, usually, you already have a response. That was very important. If anything, they were chasing us most of the time to get them designs, not the other way around. Many people warned us that we would be chasing our web developer, but it was the other way around. They always gave good estimates of what it’s going to cost. We were overall very pleased with the experience. They have always stuck to their deadlines. For bigger projects, they have online software they use to design the pages. We opted not to do that because there were just two of us designing it.
We gave them the brief of what we wanted, and they gave us the estimated cost. They didn’t go over budget, and they met the deadline they had set. I had many questions and always got responses immediately. They were able to make the changes that we wanted. I’d say it was managed very well. We communicated through email and Skype.
What did you find most impressive about Crafton?
They’re very reliable. I’ve been working with them now for quite a while, and I still continue to work with them. I’ve recommended them to many other people because they’re extremely reliable. Also, their pricing is very competitive. The quality of the work is excellent. We always gave our ideas, and then, most of the time, they were able to translate those into what we wanted. If there was anything that we wanted to change, we would do revisions, and then they would get it. I would say those are all very important things in building a website. Their communication skills are very good. We communicated always in English, and I’d say the overall experience was very good.
Are there any areas Crafton could improve?
Not really. We’ve been really happy with everything that they’ve done. If they didn’t translate our design exactly as we wanted it to look, they revised it and got it how we wanted it.
RATINGS
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Quality
5.0Service & Deliverables
"<p>Their overall product was excellent, and the service was very attentive, very timely, and it was a pleasure working with Crafton.</p> "
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Schedule
5.0On time / deadlines
"<p> They always had very realistic and very quick response time. When I had something urgent, they prioritized that and had it done immediately. If something was less urgent, I would let them know, but they still delivered very quickly.</p> "
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Cost
5.0Value / within estimates
"<p>With Piotr, he helped us reduce our costs by making our expectations more realistic of what we wanted out of our website. We have little changes that we do on the website, and his pricing is always very fair for that.</p> "
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Willing to Refer
5.0NPS
"<p>I’ve recommended them multiple times.</p>