SeaVuel | Multilingual - Hotel website with CMS | Bootstrap 4 theme

SeaVuel | Hotel CMS/template create and manage a hotel/resort website

Seavuel was built for 3 main reasons:

• provide a SIMPLE yet powerfull user interface for the visitor in order for the hotel to be able to SELL more
• easy and straightforward way for the hotel-manager to update content (no modules, settings to distract)
• easy way to connect with 3rd party booking engines/channel managers (the new standard for the industry)
• upload 360° VR photos for the rooms can make the difference. You only need your smartphone!

Aside from the main reasons above, Seavuel has many more features which are listed below.

Features list

• Quick install in less than 5 minutes (Using Processwire wizard)
• Responsive (mobile, tablet, desktop). Attention to details.
• Multilingual (front-end, backend)
• RTL languages support (Arabic, Hebrew etc)
• Book-Online search form which supports:
  • Booking.com
  • LittleHotelier
  • WebHotelier
  • TravelClick
  • Beds24
  • BookWize
  • eZeeReservation
  • FreeToBook
  • WuBook
  • Booking.expert.it
• Add your own easily

• Weather (+ 5 days forecast)
• Basic Theming (change buttons colours / bg-image patterns)
• Newsletter Subscribe form (with Mailchimp integration)
• Translations (front-end, backend)
• Powerfull admin panel (Processwire) that makes sense for both the developer & client
• Frontend – edit inline. Update text, images directly on the website.
• Easily create pages, sub-pages, add photos, rich-text(CK-Editor)
• Upload VR photos. Online visitors can see 360° VR photos taken from simple smartphone VR camera apps even on their Cardboard.
• Easy to customize (create your own layouts and data fields)
• Based on PDO/MySQL – PHP5 – HTML5 – CSS3 – Bootstrap 4
• Multiple back-end users with discrete roles (on page-editing fields and/or templates)
• Deliver an equally satisfying experience to the designer, developer and end-user
• SEO ready (clean URLs, structured data, support for all meta-tags/including facebook/twitter, alternate language URLs)
• Auto-generated sitemap.xml on url: /sitemap.xml for all pages/languages
• Optimized for high performance
• Increased security (CSRF, XSS, SQL Injection)
• Icons font (Font Awesome 5)
• Google Maps API V3
• Google Recaptcha for contact/newsletter forms
• EU Cookie Law prompt(Cookie Consent)
• Helpful documentation + Processwire documentation

Changelog

2020 September 3 – Version 2.1.2

- added:
    - added: support for dirs21.de booking-engine
    - added: support for phobs.net booking-engine

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: issue with failing Weather data-fetch

- improved:
    - improved: added bigger layout for larger screen sizes
    - improved: ability to disable CookieConsent through backend
    - improved: updated AutoSmush to latest version 1.1.6
    - improved: updated WireMailSmtp to latest version 0.5.2
    - improved: updated Processwire to latest version 3.0.165

2019 May 1 – Version 2.1.1

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: issue with pickadate-plugin not displaying date-picker correctly
    - fixed: issue with Google Maps plugin displaying error occasionally

- improved:
    - improved: UI issues with RTL languages
    - improved: updated Bootstrap to version 4.3.1
    - improved: updated pickadate to version 3.6.3
    - improved: updated AutoSmush to version 1.1.4
    - improved: updated WireMailSmtp to version 0.4.1
    - improved: updated Processwire to version 3.0.123

2018 September 7 – Version 2.1

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: issue with vrview plugin having issues in Chrome for Android

- improved:
    - improved: added new button for Google maps directions into location page
    - improved: changed UI of pages-carousel to a more simplified/clean version
    - improved: Small UX/UI improvements

2018 August 5 – Version 2.0

- improved:
    - improved: Updated theme to Bootstrap 4.1.3 (latest)
    - improved: updated SubscribeToMailChimp module to version 0.4
    - improved: Small UX/UI improvements

2018 April 23 – Version 1.8

- added:
    - added: Newsletter subscription with Mailchimp

- improved:
    - improved: Removed flags from languages dropdown (Reason: 
    - improved: Translations are now all-in-one-file for faster translating
    - improved: Small UX/UI improvements
    - improved: updated Processwire to version     3.0.98

2018 February 26 – Version 1.7

- improved:
    - improved: Much Cleaner UI by increasing space between text blocks
    - improved: Reverted back the way assets(css/js) were included in header/footer.
        - It now uses the old/traditional way which is much easier to follow.
    - improved: Small UX/UI improvements
        - added loading-spinner on image-carousels
    - improved: updated Processwire to version     3.0.93

2018 January 3 – Version 1.6

- added:
    - added: Support for Schema.org (hotels)

- improved:
    - improved: Cleaner UI for image boxes on mobile
    - improved: Small UX/UI improvements
    - improved: Improved documentation
        - better accessible through mobile devices
        - added FAQ
    - improved: updated Processwire to version     3.0.87
    - improved: updated Markup Google reCAPTCHA to version 2.0
    - improved: updated WireMailSmtp to version 0.3.0

2017 October 21 – Version 1.5

- added:
    - added: New processwire backend theme: "AdminThemeUikit" and was set as default (can be changed from backend for any user)

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: issue with vrview plugin latest version not loading correct content

- improved:
    - improved: Added minified versions of css/js for faster website loading
    - improved: image slider
        - overlay changed so that text is more clear
        - backend page-edit, added option to set slider height to auto/full-height
            - Set home-page default slider height setting to 100% (can be changed from home-page -> edit)
    - improved: updated Processwire to version 3.0.79
    - improved: updated WireMailSmtp: 0.2.4 => 0.2.5

2017 September 7 – Version 1.4

- added:
    - added: New theming options
        - Set background-color on image pattern areas(instead of background-image) or blend color with image using opacity field
        - Set color of text inside image pattern areas(e.x. black text on white image etc.)
    - added: "Noto Sans" font for slider captions

- improved:
    - improved: image slider now has a new UI
        - added extra text field for image captions(now each image has title,extra fields)
        - better UI text captions
        - menu now overlays slider having transparent background
    - improved: better way of images->full-screen. it now uses browser's full-screen mode.
    - improved: script tag for jsdelivr, now uses their new combine method/way
    - improved: removed default full-screen slider from home-page
    - improved: rewrote parts of javascript for increased performance
    - improved: added lazyload plugin, so that images are downloaded only when on viewport
    - improved: weather forecast days now fill the horizontal space
    - improved: updated vr-view plugin to latest version
    - improved: increased newsletter-modal font-size
    - improved: updated open-weather-map php library
    - improved: updated WireMailSmtp: 0.2.3 => 0.2.4

2017 August 15 – Version 1.3

- added:
    - added: RTL languages support (Arabic, Hebrew etc)
    - added: 4 new languages for demo
        - Arabic
        - Portuguese
        - Thai
        - Chinese
    - added: Multilingual support for weather-widget

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: issue with theme image patterns not been visible when changing default language
    - fixed: bug | when viewing images in full-screen mode on mobile when scrolling down there was a space

- improved:
    - improved: home-page image-slider now displays on full window height (only when on portrait mode)
    - improved: changed slider full-screen button and repositioned it bottom-right for better UX
    - improved: changed "open in google maps" button on map overlay
    - improved: text overlay gradient on home-page sections and on room-page slider
    - improved: footer google map image converted to 60% grayscale so that it is not so eye-catchy (normalized)

2017 June 5 – Version 1.2

- added:
    - added: Weather widget on footer
        - 5 days forecast
        - weather icons from 
        - consumes OpenWeatherMap Free API through CmfcmfOpenWeatherMap PHP library
        - settings added on backend (°C/°F, cache-time, location)
    - added: New page under settings named "Theme" where user can:
        - change buttons/selections colours
        - change background image-patterns used on site
        - set display opacity for background image-patterns
        - change hotel logos
    - added: Back-to-top button
    - added: Subscribe to Newsletter form on footer
    - added: New Processwire modules:
        - DatabaseBackups for taking database backups
        - VersionControl for keeping content history with rollback feature
        - ClearCacheAdmin for clearing caches
        - AutoSmush for optimizing images using  free web-service
    - added: hoverCSS and applied hover background-change effect on buttons

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: scrollbar was visible when viewing images full-screen

- improved:
    - improved: Replaced Slick-carousel with the new version of Owl-Carousel(2)
    - improved: Moved social icons below footer and changed style
    - improved: Moved Settings-page under Admin-page for clarity
    - improved: Carousel slider UX
        - visible panels for tablet 2 and for desktop 3 (better responsive)
        - draggable cursor on hover, repositioned arrows, added bullets
        - changed panels style
    - improved: Image sliders
            - moved full-screen button on top-right and made it visible only on hover/tap
            - draggable cursor on hover
            - added zoom-effect on images
            - added image-preloader to prevent images from not showing fast
    - improved: Simplified languages dropdown by keeping only local language name
    - improved: added resized-images of demo in final package so that initial site rendering is fast
    - improved: Refactored/renamed template partial views
    - improved: updated to latest Processwire 3.0.63
    - improved: many small UX/UI improvements

2017 February 21 – Version 1.1

- added:
    - added: NEW booking-engine providers:
        - Beds24
        - BookWize
        - eZeeReservation
        - FreeToBook
        - WuBook
    - added: menu page called: "booking" so that the user can send a booking request through a form
    - added: new search-form called booking.on.request that posts on the newly created "booking" page
    - added: loading indicator for panel button & forms submit button
    - added: extra 360 VR images on SeaVuel demo on all rooms

- bugfixes:
    - fixed: padding on menu logo
    - fixed: removed unwanted outline, bg color from various states :focus, :active etc

- improved:
    - improved: added image on 404 page
    - improved: removed border-radius from mobile menu buttons
    - improved: child pages on sections-layout pages displayed on top-right
    - improved: changed image VR logo overlay

2017 February 1 – Version 1.0

- Initial release