Holiday Park website design

• Cnx Web Solutions has provided two full website redesigns for holiday parks in the last few months and the success of these two projects has seen us joining the British Holiday & Home Parks Asociation (BH&HPA) as a national associate member.
• Both designs were very much client-led and so though they have a common purpose on the face of it, the two websites appear quite different. Appearances are a bit deceptive however as these sites in fact share the same design philosophy.
• Mother Iveys Bay is an exclusive and tranquil holiday park near Padstow on Cornwall's north coast. The site offers a selection of self catering Rose Award caravans as well as touring pitches for caravans, tents and motorhomes.
• The first task in designing the website was to ensure that the navigation made it very easy to access the relavant information. For this reason the hire caravans and touring sections are organised separately, with a navigation button for each section. Within the caravans & camping/touring sections sub level navigation makes it easy to obtain all the relevant information needed for booking.
• Clarity of navigation sounds like a simple concept but it never ceases to amaze me how frequently I come across websites that are an absolute nightmare to navigate. Its like walking into an unfamiliar supermarket that has taken all the aisle signs down "for a laugh". With the Mother Iveys Bay site we prioritised the order of the navigation buttons, made them very easy to spot and utilised sub navigation within sections to keep the primary navigation uncluttered.

• A similar organisational task was required to design the website for Ayr Holiday Park. The difference here was that within the overall company/organisation there are two park sites plus a holiday home letting business. the previous website design failed to distinguish between these facets of the business which was costing the client bookings when we inherited it.

• We first split The sitemap into three sections, one for Ayr , one for Trevalgan and the holiday homes . Selecting one of these sections is easily accomplished from the home page but internal navigation throughout the entire website makes moving between sections asy at any time.
• The simple expedient of colour coding the sections helps the organisation and makes the site much clearer to use. within each section we employed the same nav principles as for Mother Iveys Bay - resulting in a functioning website that is easy to use, easy to navigate and makes booking straightforward.
• The goal of each website is to create a resource that meets the vision of the client, serves the needs of the site user and generates income through booking. Both clients were very pleased with their websites and their assistance in helping us to become HP&HPA a member is very much appreciated.