RailAgent.com: Re-brandable Front-end development

preview of the Amtrak view of the Railagent Skinnable Sitecore CMS for rail travel ticketing

Challenged by the many travel agents that use it's award-winning application to plan and book rail travel, RailAgent rebuilt the content management infrastructure necessary and needed a way to serve this vast amount of content in an intuitive layout, adhere to web-standards, and introduce accessibility and speed.

Based on a Sitecore CMS engine with XSLT translation from XML to XHTML, the front-end of this Web Application is built to facilitate re-branding. This is accomplished by moving away from the legacy table-layout, and taking advantage of the separation between markup and presentation in the front-end. The site markup does not have any presentation elements, the CSS layer manages the layout and branding of the content served by this CMS-driven web-site/application. This successful front-end implementation was rolled-out worldwide to more than thirty (30) affiliate train travel agencies such as: Amadeus, STA Travel, FlightCenter, Amtrak, Miki Travel.

Review the XHTML/CSS wireframes used to create XSLT Layouts

Roles & Responsibilities

Senior Front-End Web developer: Development and markup of XHTML/CSS front-end structures
Certified Sitecore CMS Developer
Training and orientation of CMS editors and users in using the application
creation of subsequent branding regimes for affiliates