The internet is all about doing things differently and more conveniently. And as a webmaster, you must always be looking at ways to achieve those objectives. It may not be always be possible to ‘create’ and ‘invent’ new stuff and ideas. You can also try and look at things from a different angle. There are so many services provided (most of them free) which you can implement in a site to give it a flavor that is both refreshing and energising. One such example is this website which helps in searching for office space in london and its surrounding areas.

First let us look at what the site does and see some of the more conventional solutions. This site is about finding and hiring office space near London. As such, the user is expected to request for availability of office space in an area in London. So how can this be done? The easiest and most common solution would be a directory. Each area in London becomes a category and all available office space’s becomes listings. Instead of URLS to the listings, we add a seperate links for price request.

But how has this site - http://www.londonofficespace.com/ implemented the solution? On the home page the user is presented with a list of available localities and on the right (hold your breath) is the map of London. Superimposed on the map are all the locations. Now imagine the user experience. He gets a visual image of where exactly the office space will be located including distance from one another. On selecting a location, he is presented with the list of available serviced offices in London. The user gets an experience about how professional this site is (and they surely are), how hard they must have worked (which they have done) and is sure to bookmark this page.

If you carefully note, the website uses Google maps to get visually represent London office space locations. With this one master move, the site is able to move onto the next plane. This is exactly seperates the ‘run of the mill’ site and the site that is ‘original’. This is the kind of original thinking that made a million dollars to the ‘MillionDollarHomePage’ guy and is making millions of dollars to Google!