About Dal Club

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a lead in the fuel production area and in technology has large number of visitors each year. These tourists/ travelers are attracted by Arabian Cuisine, ethics and customized recreation places. KSA is constantly emerging as preferable holiday destination for the world. Dal club, which relates to its Arabic meaning directory, is an interface to the visitor of KSA with the information of available restaurants and their services.

Communication Strategy

Visitors all around the world need to know about the place they visit in terms of availability of certain necessities so that they could enjoy their trip. For example visitor needs to have all the information for the restaurants and the services depending on their choices. To make the current and relevant information available to them, restaurants have to provide the information of there services and offers directly to them using some promotional strategies or it can be centralized somewhere where anyone can access it. Thus this website would work as an interface between visitor searching for the services and restaurants offering those services. It would enhance the information presentation by using concise and precise information representation system, from both the sources i.e. restaurants and website with complete control on it.

Project Summary

Web site developed would represent the information in lucrative way; it would give an idea of the place searched for in both ways, in graphics and facts. As the website is being developed for purpose of local and international visitors, Arabic and English languages would be used to provide the complete details searched for. It would illustrate few special offers, given by the member restaurants, for the visitors, which in term would be related to the restaurant offering it, which would require constant update on the offers and services provided as the website would be presenting the latest offers available.
Real Images will be included to give the impression of actual surroundings and food available. A well optimize search would be provided to navigate quickly to the desired section of the website. There will be a section for the news and events so that the visitor may be told about latest happenings for his/ her interest.
Registration section would be introduced to send and retrieve the information. It would be all dynamic system.

Target Audience

Dal Club's target audiences are locals of KSA and international visitor of the KSA and internal staff of Dal Club, which would seek for the information related to restaurants and dining places. It is a dynamic source of information, where information has to be updated on certain intervals.

Results 

Website came into existence for the Dal Club is like an online directory of the restaurant and dining places available in KSA, additionally it has comprehensive interface and graphical representation, which attracts user’s interest and awards him with the complete and detailed information sought for. Its bilingual interface makes it much accessible for the local of KSA and for the International visitors.

Visitors can access the site get the knowledge about the restaurants or dining places available in KSA, that to in the area of their choice. The information is presented to the visitor in an easy to understand way, it has pictorial representation of food available and of restaurants, which gives out an impression of the searched place in front of the visitor. Provided search tool also has been implemented in such a way that visitor can opt for the criteria and search for the desired result. A result presented on the site includes pricing, location, type of food available and images of the restaurant and food. Arabic version of the site has been developed, keeping in view of its use by locals and internal staff. Use of flash has made it more presentable and preferable over directory.

It provides the visitors with the registration facility also, in return they are benefited by being disclosed about the special offers, information is sent to them from time to time for the latest available offers.

It’s dynamically updatable system flow enables the internal staff of the Dal Club to manage the information without much efforts. Admin can control the registration section of the Dal Club, which keeps complete information intact and relevant. Information flow is centrally controlled to avoid uncertainty.

Technical Specifications:

• ASP.NET 2.0
• Flash
• SQL Server 2005
• IIS
• Windows