Lahinch Seaworld & Leisure Centre website
Brionglóid Media were recently commissioned to design the new Lahinch Seaworld website
Lahinch Seaworld & Leisure Centre is located on the promenade of Lahinch, County Clare, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. Inside the complex is a full-sized indoor swimming pool, a gym, shop, cafe and children’s playzone. Lahinch Seaworld also boasts one of Ireland’s largest indoor aquariums, showcasing the rich variety of marine flora and fauna native to Irish shores.
What we done, in the revamped site, was to focus on the various different services which the company provided, keeping the format of the pre-existing site, but modernizing it radically.
Lahinch Seaworld opted for our photo service, so we took some photos inside and outside the premises, first of all focusing on the aquarium and the various creatures within, before then moving on to the other facilities at Lahinch Seaworld.
Afterwards we processed and edited the photos, and then got to work on the content.
Working with the manager of Lahinch Seaworld we created the textual content of the site, firstly to ensure that the text was satisfactory to the company and also to ensure it was best optimised for search engines. We then put the textual content together with the photos, a newly designed logo and a new Lahinch Seaworld blog section for the site.
We also completely reconstructed the printable marine database section. Some of the text already existed but we recoded the web pages from scratch, giving them greater readability and uniformity throughout. We provided new photos and illustrations and also added to the database with completely new pages. The result is a clear, concise resource on indigenous Irish marine flora of great value to schoolchildren.
The website maintenance of the Lahinch Seaworld site will also be taken over by Brionglóid Media. Once the site was completed we embarked on a thorough website promotion campaign, primarily focusing on getting quality links through various Irish tourism agencies and similar websites, as well as state and semi-state bodies pertaining to education, the environment and marine matters, amongst others. We also promoted the swimming pool and gym page separately by getting more links from numerous relevant websites.
(*At present Google searches for “Leisure Centre Clare” and “Swimming Pool Clare” are top of the pile of Google searches)
Later, we shall be assisting them in getting their new webcam feature up and running, and, as their new gym opens in the New Year, we shall be called upon to do more edits and changes to the site.
Brionglóid Media would like to thank Lahinch Seaworld for choosing us and for their assistance and support during this course of this project. It was, for us, an exciting, educational and altogether intriguing experience. We hope to continue to work with Lahinch Seaworld in 2008 and we hope that their new websites brings them even more custom and prosperity in the New Year.