Curacao

Avenue A | Razorfish have launched the extremely attractive site curacao.com, a site dedicated to promoting the country of Curaçao. This is one of the first sites that Avenue A | Razorfish have launched and it is a fine testement to high quality of their interactive services. This year Avenue A | Razorfish received a Gold in the Addy Awards, one of the biggest (and toughest) advertising awards organised by the American Advertising Federation.  

Due to the history of Curaçao, and its physical proximity to Mexico, the languages of the inhabitants are Papiamento, Spanish, English, and Dutch. One of the factors in choosing Sitecore was its ability to support all of those languages in the editor, thus improving the productivity of the contributors to the site. The ability to support multilingual characters both in the editor and on the site was also important.

The site itself is extremely rich, not only graphically, but also in terms of information, with up to date information on activities, locations, booking, weather and culture, for example.

"Curaçao is an extremely exciting and colourful location; we feel that the new website has really captured the essence of the country. We are pleased that we have found a CMS that allows us full control over both the editorial content and graphical style, without compromising either", Kara Barbakoff, Cheryl Andrews Marketing, on behalf of Curaçao.

Visit the site, visit the country. 

About Curaçao

• Population: 135,000.

• Location: in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea, one of the Windward Islands of the Netherlands Antilles.

• Total Surface Area: 444 square km. It’s 40 miles (64 km) long and 10 miles (16km) wide

• Capital: Willemstad.

• Languages: Papiamento, Spanish, English, and Dutch.

• First discovered: by the Spaniards in 1499.

• Occupied: by the Dutch in 1634.

• First Inhabitants:  Arawak Indians.

• Oldest Synagogue:  Founded in 1651, it is the oldest in the Western Hemisphere in continuous use.

• Main Industries: tourism and oil refining. Offshore banking activities also contribute to the local economy.

• Limited Self-government: Gained on January 1, 1954.

• Temperature: +/- 30C (80F) all year round.

• Religion:  80% Catholic with the Jewish, Muslim, and Protestants faiths practiced freely.

• Currency:  Netherlands Antillean guilder (Florin) - abbreviated "Nafl." or "Ang."

  Exchange Rate  US$ 1 = Nafl. 1.77 for cash, 1.78 for traveller’s checks.

• The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863.

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