final proposal

About a year ago my aunt Dana started a new spa in her hometown of Encinitas. She had worked at a previous spa for many years. When she finally decided to start her own business, she had a good amount of money and a good clientele following. Because she had the money and the guests from the beginning; her business never went through the struggling phase. it has been going strong since the day it opened. When I was trying to figure out what I was going to do for my final project, I realized that she didn’t have a website. Although her day spa, Keen Spa, is doing very well, having a website is great for bring in new clients. I talked to her and she was very excited; we are pretty much get to help each other out which I am happy about.
I am building this site primary as advertisement for her. She will be able to add the webaddress on her business cards and make it easier for people to research her business without having to actually call and talk to a person (which many people are apprehensive about). The great thing about Dana's spa is it mixes luxury with nature, yet also has a kick of modern in it. Basically everything is very natural and has a fung-shui/beachy feel, yet there are random splashes of color to give life to the spa. Her decor along with the wonderful humorous staff attracts groups of all ages. I want to site to have a very classy and glamorous feel yet defiantly the color and splash of youth that she has included in the spaneed to be apparent. It seems like it may be difficult to include these two different motifs it one site, but we will see what happens.
I have decided that I am going to try my best and create this site in Flash. I am hoping the best for myself. Haha. I am thinking that I will have five pages; a welcome/ intro, a services, location/contact, a calendar, and a store products. The welcome will be the usual description of the spa, maybe a little bio about my aunt. The services would include the different kinds of treatments that someone could purchase from massages to facials and the rates. Obviously the location/contact would have the basic address, map, and phone number information. The calendar will be supplied to remind people of special occasions; the perfect time to buy gift certificates for loved ones. It will also include any specials that are going on. Although there is not a large product store in the spa, I still think it is worth mentioning. She sells products from around the world so it would be nice to be able to see what she has. I really want to include some good pictures of the spa and Dana (to make it more personal), but I'm not quite sure how well her pictures will turn out and if she would be able to get me any. If she is unable to get me any good visuals I will use generic pictures of nature and luxury and play around on photo shop to get what I feel would depict the spa correctly.
The site defiantly needs to be easy to navigate through. Yes, the spa is designed for adolescents to elderly, yet it is usually the adult not the teen that will look for a spa online. I assume this only because spas are pricey and most teen do not have that kind of money. Because the users of the sight will be older, it smart to design a simple navigation. I want to use Flash to my advantage and create a site that is very interesting when it first opens (plants grow, text falling into place, etc) but then once everything has stopped moving to make it very simple to navigate through. A simple menu bar that are clearly labeled, seem to be the best way to design the sight.
I will definalty be trying to be ahead of the game this time. I am predicting that I will have a lot of question having to do with how I can use Flash and I don;t want to wait until the last minute when the rest of the class will be doing the same thing. Taking on this site for my final project not only makes me work hard for a good grade, but also to make a usable site for my aunt (not to mention try to impress my family, Ha)