Site design for Dive School Website in Thailand

Koh Chang Dive School

Koh Chang Dive School offers numerous diving courses for both novices up to advanced and specialist courses covering areas like Dive Master, Rescue Diver, underwater photography and videography. Operating over multiple sites within Thailand their experience and course list make them one of the best dive operations within the country, and need a website to reflect their professionalism and services on offer.

The target audience will be both novice and experienced divers, mainly from tourists within the area, but also for people planning on visiting Thailand and what more information on Dive Schools in the country prior to their holiday. The main audience will be European / Russian visitors.

The site is to be clean, crisp, modern in style and using a white background.
Logo is at http://www.mso.net/files/kohchanglogos.zip

Colour palette – Clear, clean and natural using Web 2.0 colours, with a white background

Screen size – The site will need to fit 1024px width display. Where possible avoid scrolling of the page content. To help reduce scrolling the content, pages could use tabs if the content allows.

Elements to include:
Need to show the PADI logo – in zip at http://www.mso.net/files/kohchanglogos.zip

Header images – Make use of some of the best images in the zip of photos at http://www.mso.net/files/kohchangimages.zip (22.5M)
The main header image can be coded to change via javascript on a rotation basis. Key images to use would be ones with the happy smiling kids, as Thailand is called “The Land of Smiles”. The imagery has got to sell a “dream” holiday experience, so the setting sun pictures, the one with the Thai girl on the boat steps etc.

The core sections of the site will be:

Welcome
Courses
Dive Trips
Dive Sites
Dive Boat
Locations
Prices
Links
Contact Us

Most of the above sections will have sub-sections, so we need to be able to navigate to the sub-sections, either drop-down menus, or static links appearing on the page once you have entered a section.

The full navigation for the site is at http://www.mso.net/files/kohchangstructure.pdf