HudLets is the University of Huddersfield Student Union’s letting agency, providing houses, flats and halls for the town’s ever-increasing student population, ensuring they have access to high-quality accommodation at fair prices. HudLets provides support to a number of landlords and offers a range of properties across the town.
HudLets required a new website that displayed all of their available properties, and allowed students to search by size, price and location. The design had to be in-keeping with their existing branding, integrate with their property database, and provide a content management system (CMS) for multiple users to maintain, populate and manage the site.
We created a clean, bold and minimalist site design, focusing on picturesque images of Huddersfield University and the surrounding area to both help sell the university to prospective students and highlight the letting agency’s ties with the union. HudLets had an existing brand and logo that we built upon to create the look and feel of the site, taking the colours and sharp angles and incorporating these heavily into the design.
The site was built in WordPress, and as such features a full CMS for HudLets’ staff. We also created an XML feed to link with the client’s existing letting system to effectively auto-update the site as they added and removed properties from their database. We added a detail view and a Google Maps-based search tool to the property listings, as well as a map and street view on each individual property page.
Each property features social sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, email and more to let current and prospective students easily share properties they are interested in with friends and family, as well as an integrated form to enquire directly about a specific house or flat. It’s the whole package.
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