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Gran Melia Puerto Rico Hotel Opens with the Help of It's Innovative Website

When the Gran Melia Puerto Rico was introduced in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, on May 1, its website was ready to start booking its guests' reservations. THAT Agency constructed the www.granmeliapuertorico.com website in CSS (cascading style sheets), a table-less form of HTML. CSS allows for seamless graphic and text integration creating "clean" web development and design.

"The Booking Engine was built using Ruby on Rails technology," said Bill Teubner, President of THAT Agency, "and the reservations system was altered so no reservations could be made before May 1."

Ruby on Rails technology is an open source web framework for developing database back web applications.

THAT Agency will also be managing the Gran Melia Puerto Rico's monthly SEO efforts.

Gran Melia Puerto Rico was previously the all-inclusive Paradisus Puerto Rico, but the hotel has been improved and will convert to a traditional European plan resort. This transition is the result of changes in Puerto Rico's marketplace and parent company Sol Melia's expansion of the Gran Melia brand into the Americas.

Gran Melia Puerto Rico is the second Gran Melia hotel in the Caribbean. Gran Melia Puerto Rico is a beachfront resort on the island's northeastern coast known at Coco Beach, in the town of Rio Grande. The hotel features 486 junior suites distributed among 20 two-story bungalows, 96 suites, five Garden Villas and one Presidential Villa.

Gran Melia Puerto Rico is owned and managed by Sol Melia Hotels & Resorts, one of the worlds most successful hotel companies, managing seven distinctive brands; Melia Hotels and Resorts, Me by Melia, Tryp Hotels, Sol Hotels and Resorts, Paradisus Resorts, Sol Melia Vacation Club and Luxury Lifestyle Hotels & Resorts - totaling more than 350 hotels in 30 countries.

THAT Agency is a full service-advertising agency headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. THAT Agency does web design, web development and graphic design projects, in addition to traditional full service advertising agency operations, such as print media services, print design and video integration.

THAT Agency provides web solutions for companies both big and small.