ඇන්ටන් ජයකොඩි ට්රැවල්ස් වෙබ් අඩවිය
Project Overview
The Anton Jayakodi Travels website was designed and developed by Isura Wickramarachchi in 2001 as one of his earliest professional web development projects. Created for a well-established Sri Lankan travel agency, the website introduced international travellers to personalised holiday experiences across Sri Lanka while promoting the company's expertise in designing customised travel itineraries.
The website emphasised the company's philosophy of offering individually planned holidays rather than standard package tours. It highlighted Sri Lanka's cultural heritage, scenic beauty, wildlife, beaches, and historical attractions while encouraging visitors to create their own personalised travel experiences with the assistance of experienced local travel consultants. The company was recognised as a Sri Lanka Tourist Board Approved Travel Agent, reinforcing its credibility within the tourism industry.
Design & Structure
The website featured a colourful travel-inspired design using orange, blue, white, black, and green, reflecting Sri Lanka's natural landscapes, tropical beaches, wildlife, and cultural heritage.
The homepage included:
- Large scenic banner.
- Company introduction.
- Personalised travel message.
- Featured travel consultants.
- Company specialities.
- Navigation menu.
- Contact information.
- Sri Lanka Tourist Board accreditation.
- Footer copyright.
The design relied heavily on destination photography and smooth graphic curves to create an inviting atmosphere while keeping navigation straightforward and accessible.
Key Features
- Professional travel agency website.
- Tailor-made tour promotion.
- Company profile.
- Travel credentials.
- Destination introduction.
- Contact information.
- Tourism branding.
- Search-engine-friendly architecture.
- Fast-loading static website.
- Cross-browser compatibility.
Technical Highlights
- HTML website architecture.
- CSS-based page styling.
- JavaScript interface enhancements.
- Optimised destination imagery.
- Lightweight static implementation.
- Structured navigation system.
- Search-engine-friendly page hierarchy.
- Fast-loading pages.
- Cross-browser compatibility.
Design Highlights
The visual presentation focused on promoting Sri Lanka as a premium travel destination through:
- Large panoramic destination photography.
- Curved graphic layouts inspired by natural landscapes.
- Warm tropical colour palette.
- Personalised travel branding.
- Tourism-focused typography.
- Strong visual emphasis on scenic attractions.
- Minimalist navigation.
- Clear company identity and accreditation.
The overall design reflected the early evolution of tourism websites by combining attractive destination imagery with concise marketing messages and easy navigation.
Significance
The Anton Jayakodi Travels website holds particular importance within Isura Wickramarachchi's professional portfolio as one of his earliest commercial website projects, completed in 2001 during the formative years of his web development career. At a time when relatively few Sri Lankan travel agencies maintained a professional online presence, the website helped position the company on the international stage by promoting personalised travel experiences to overseas visitors.
The project successfully communicated the company's philosophy of customised travel planning while showcasing Sri Lanka's cultural heritage, wildlife, beaches, and historical attractions through an attractive and user-friendly design. Its emphasis on individually tailored itineraries distinguished the agency from conventional package tour operators and reflected the growing demand for personalised tourism experiences.
This project marked an important milestone in Isura Wickramarachchi's journey into professional web development and laid the foundation for his later success in designing numerous travel and tourism websites for clients in Sri Lanka and abroad. It demonstrates his early ability to combine effective visual design with clear marketing communication, creating websites that supported business growth while promoting Sri Lanka as a world-class travel destination.
Allow us, dear visitor, to share with you some personal glimpses of the past that would better acquaint you with us before you decide to place your trust on us with a tour of Sri Lanka.
In the beginning it was quite different for both of us. Yvonne was a nurse. I was a Medical Propagandist, an Area Sales Manager and then Sales Manager - professions that demanded extensive travel through the length and breadth of this beautiful island. It was during these times that I had the good fortune of meeting, at the various then available hotels, travellers from distant lands whose refreshing company I immensely enjoyed - albeit limited to the duration of an evening. It was on such an occasion, in the company of some charming Austrian people that the thought dawned on me to explore the possibilities of pursuing a career in tourism.
The opportunity to bring into fruition this thought came faster than expected more by necessity than by choice with the closure of the company I worked for - thus forcing me to seek for the best possible 'entrance' to this hitherto strange arena in business, eventually accepting to begin at the humble level of a tourist car driver - a controversial decision unacceptable to family and friends alike - as none could reconcile themselves to agree that a man holding the position of a manager should choose to humble himself to be a driver in this class conscious eastern country.
Not allowing myself to be demoralised by the negativism and gloom that followed, I immersed myself deeply in my newfound occupation and plodded on assiduously working towards pleasing each and every couple, each and every family I had the privilege to guide.
Rewards came fast. The happy and the satisfied passed my name around. Demands for my services came from far and wide, compelling me to engage more drivers and more cars. Thus began a career that has spun a web of joy around me propelling me from driver and guide to travel agent - when along with Yvonne, a team was born to serve and savour different people from different parts of the world with a genuinely personalised quality of service that has now become synonymous with our agency.
The repertoire of friends Yvonne and I have in various parts of the globe is an ample proof of our personal touch in the course of our work; they are our credentials, ever ready to bear genuine testimony to an inquiry that may come to them from a prospective customer of our Agency.
We have worked long and hard over the past years to attain the capacity and acquire the capability for specialization. Charter Groups, Back-to-Back Operations or Brochure Programs are not for us. We stay small but on fixed-focus at Couples, Family Groups, Honeymooners and Incentives.
Our tours are custom-made to order - may it be a typical classical program or a mix of interests - sports, Ayurvedic therapy, or eastern meditation - everything in its rightful place to ensure that our guests have had their moneys worth.
Meticulously planned and systematically executed tour programms to take our guests along the timeless past of a glorious 2500 year old civilization, kind, courteous and knowledgeable chauffeur guides, comfortable air conditioned cars and coaches and the warm welcome and the special care extended our guests at each every one of our partner hotels who are bonded with us in mutual trust - is our humble claim and offer to you - our future visitor to Sri Lanka.
සංවාදයට එක්වන්න.