Since 2012 Aquardens has been one of the largest watering places and spas in Europe, located close to Lake Garda amongst the amazing vineyards of Valpolicella and all the amenities of Verona.
The whole state-of-the-art structure, which represents an impressive investment, provides a full range of services including several swimming pools fed by thermal water at different temperatures, a wellness centre and a medical spa, as well as bars and restaurants, all designed for the complete leisure of visitors.
Each facility and location within the centre had to be shown in its full splendour in order for viewers to feel the warmth of those amazing spas and experience the unique atmosphere of the place.
We built a website characterised by a responsive layout in order to display all site content correctly on any resolution and device. Furthermore, intense use of the most advanced HTML5 and CSS3 techniques allowed us to raise the level of the site’s user experience, implementing features which make the navigation engaging and rewarding.
Let’s review together the details of our technical choices for building this website, its structure and its code.
Responsive Layout
In order to obtain such a responsive layout, we defined and implemented two separate structures at the same time. Depending on the resolution and the device, it serves a specific set of content. Even the menus are different depending on the device, always displaying only the relevant configuration.
For traditional monitor sizes, the internal sections display second level menus which can be navigated also by keyboard: scrolling vertically through the menu items makes the corresponding image load in the background, whilst scrolling horizontally displays the specific content of any selected item.
For mobile devices- thanks to the jQuery Cycle plugin- the structure changes, showing the images related to each section as a slideshow with the content as a description at the bottom of each picture.