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Description: Marine theme park in Durban, South Africa, offering a world of ocean activities, rides, oceanarium, amusement park, shopping, beach activities and lots more.Case Study: Faced with the task of showcasing all that uShaka Marine World has to offer and still keeping the site light.

We knew how much traffic the website gets and what it meant to keep the site light in loading time.

We created loads of images to keep the site visually image driven and still informative of all the park has to offer with events and promotions.

Naturally Joomla was the real winner.

We used an extensive range of class suffixes for all the different layouts and header styles.

Another great design/css feature was the img styles to create a stacked image and Polaroid image effect with backgrounds.

A real winner of the site is the transparent flash type and sparkling logo over the fader slideshow. To keep the site light we tried to avoid large flash files.

The park map with magnifying glass is just another fancy bit to add to the complexity of the site.

This project was a huge success and enjoyed the rewards it has brought. Traffic to the site has increased 4 times since the redesign and develop to Joomla.

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Congratulations on creating such light site for such a image heavy content.

This is a large site and I think other theme park websites should take a note from these guys and apply the light loading to their sites.

Congrats TNNG!

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