About Us


Josh

Joshua Cohen

PADI Master Instructor and Managing Partner

The purpose of this website is to showcase my uncle's PADI Dive Shop and to fulfill the requirements for SNHU IT-270's final project. In order to make sure that I accomplished my objectives, I used references from other dive shops to help build my pages and followed the SNHU rubric for the final project. I focused on the main aspects of diving which include gear, service, and training to make my website as close to what a real dive shop would have. I made sure to reference many HTML and CSS guides to make sure that I was appropriately using each piece of code as I went along. I would insert images and then adjust the size as I saw fit and felt made the website look better.

I chose to use the bubble background across all pages of my website as bubbles are a large part of scuba diving. The number one rule of scuba diving is always keep breathing, and many times that means just blowing bubbles. I decided to use a lot of blue as it is meant to symbolize the ocean. The other primary color I chose was red. Red is the main color of a dive flag and the color is able to stand out on the blue background. I chose fonts that I find are easy to read and make the reader feel excited. As a PADI instructor I am authorized to use any of the PADI marketing material that they provide such as logos and videos, and I was able to integrate these into my website to create a more realistic look. I chose the video I did for the homepage due to the fact that it describes exactly what happens when you become a scuba diver and it provides such great video clips to get viewers hooked.

I believe that if I had more time and resources I would have liked to take my course page, and make it multiple pages; one page for each course, where I could add pictures and videos from each individual course to provide more detail about each specific course. I would also have loved to use different fish images as navigation buttons rather than just a typical navigation bar. With more skill and time, I could certainly learn to make my website as dynamic as Rainbow Reef Dive Center's. Finally, I would like to add more pages that discuss dive travel, rental gear, and our dive club.