The Coronado Trail Cabins in scenic Alpine, Arizona needed to a way for web site visitors to make cabin reservations for their vacation stay. To help relieve the office staff of having to answer questions on cabin availability and the size and provisions of each of the six cabins, a website was created to provide the following:
- Determine cabin availability for any month of the year by viewing a graphic calendar
- Set pending reservations (approved manually by staff workers)
- See photos and read information pertaining to each cabin
Using ColdFusion server language and a MySQL database, I set up a cabin reservation web site application to fulfill these goals.
First, a web site visitor would select a cabin. Then a check-in date would be selected from the calendar. Here is a screen shot of one of the cabins with the date of May 18 selected:
In addition to helping the visitors make a timely decision, the office staff is free from having to answer the phone for small questions that are easily answered by viewing the web site. In addition, the owner has a historical record of how often each cabin has been rented.