
Uma-Hoga-Akademie Website: Custom Drupal development for a hospitality education provider
The Uma-Hoga-Akademie offers seminars and webinars tailored to professionals in the hotel and restaurant industry. The provider is a well-established hotel consulting company that supports hoteliers and restaurateurs in optimizing their businesses through expert-led training.
I developed the entire website from the ground up. This fully responsive and mobile friendly site, done with Drupal 8 (9/10/11), enables full seminar management—from entering seminar descriptions and pricing to scheduling multiple dates and locations, managing availability, and tracking remaining seats. Availability updates automatically as participants register. It also integrates articles from their blog site though an RSS feed.
I built the site using Drupal, implementing all custom e-commerce logic as Drupal modules. I was also responsible for theming the entire site, translating the client’s provided layout into a responsive and engaging frontend experience.
One special aspect that was very important for this customer is SEO. Besides Drupal’s normal SEO, which is already pretty good, this site features many SEO friendly features such as SEO evaluation tools and rich snippets integration (schema.org).
Rich Snippets help display further information (for example, seminar dates and locations) in Google’s search results, like so:
