Redesign Hotel Website

Hotel Lugsteinhof

The Lugsteinhof is a 3 star superior Hotel in Germany. It's the highest hotel in the east-Erzgebirge [1] (at 874m) with a great view over Saxony's capital Dresden [2], Saxon Switzerland [3], Karkonosze / Riesengebirge [4] and České Středohoří / Böhmisches Mittelgebirge [5].

The hotel is by the long-distance hiking trail E3 (Atlantic -> Black_Sea) and it is connected to ~60km of Cross-country skiing tracks.

The hotel offers relaxing and active vacations with everything under one roof: Restaurants, Hotel bar, Swimming Pool with Jacuzzi, Sauna, Hydro Jet Message Bed, bowling alley, massages & cosmetics, ski / sled / bike rental, kid playgrounds, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzgebirge
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Switzerland
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karkonosze
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/České_Středohoří

I am hosting this contest for the hotel as I did the underlaying CMS system a long time ago. I am also responsible for the current (bad) design, I'm sorry : ). Feel free to ask me any questions any time!

- The extended family (mother, father, kids, grandma, grandpa, grandchildren)
- Activity vacationers (age 40+)
- Hikers & Hiker groups
- Family celebrations
- Health vacations

The goals for the redesign are:

- Make the website more attractive
- Keep it simple & usable

Images to use:
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You can use any images from the image gallary
* http://lugsteinhof.de/galerien/inde…ie/1:hotel
* http://lugsteinhof.de/galerien/inde…e/2:region

Comparable Sites:
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* http://www.kalcherhof.com/
* http://www.lindenhof-holzhau.de/

Color Scheme:
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The color schema should reflect the hotel logo [1] which features a warm dark green. It should be applied on a solid / subtle background and not be too colorful. See an example that works with a similar color schema here: [2]

[1] http://felixge.s3.amazonaws.com/09/…f-logo.bmp
[2] http://www.lindenhof-bad-schandau.de/index.php

File format:
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* PSD is preferred, otherwise please provide the sliced up images as jpg/png

Technical Requirements:
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This is a redesign for an existing site that already has a lot of content. Please take a few minutes to go to http://lugsteinhof.de/ and browse the site (hint: use google translate: [1]).

The menu items needs to stay, so will have the content on most pages. Dropdowns/etc. =ok

[1] http://translate.google.com/transla…n&ie=UTF-8

Splashpage:
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The old site has a simple splash page, bonus points if you can update that to the new design as well.