World Kitesurfing – Design and Development
Worldkitesurfing.com is a content managed community driven website with Facebook style social networking functionality. The site is profile based, enabling users to upload videos and images, add friends and chat via instant messaging.
Users can boost their status by completing ‘achievements’. Applications can easily be added to profiles (e.g. twitter feeds and blog feeds).
Users can create there own blogs or post to the WKS blog. Comprehensive security features allow members to select their own privacy settings.
The site has an article-based system to allow the admin users to post articles. There is also a news section that pulls information from other sites.
We incorporated a state of the art weather system so users can get up-to-date real-time weather from anywhere in the world. We also built a e-commerce section of the site for WKS merchandise sales, including a custom shopping cart and payment system.
Worldkitesurfing.com has an online TV channel, enabling users to view hundreds of hours of content including user generated content, video lessons, reviews and interviews.