"I've been advertising now for 4 years and would estimate over 70% of my business comes from visitors who have seen us in the Guide" - Funky Hut.White Sands Publications have spent the last five years promoting and helping to develop Koh Chang as a tourist destination. Through our growing range of magazines, maps and websites we aim to provide the latest and the most comprehensive information on the area.
Advertising with Us
The Guide to Koh Chang, Trat & The Eastern Islands
If you have a business in the area then we can help to promote you through our print and internet publications. We will bring you business.- Our Koh Chang Guide is the original guide to Koh Chang. We have been giving information and promoting tourism in Koh Chang for over five years. If you want to reach new customers advertising in The Guide is the way!
- We offer a scale of rates and ad sizes to suite all budgets and publish 1st of Jan, April, July and October. Copy date is one month earlier.
- Our service and price includes full design of your ad or we can accept your own artwork in almost any format
The Restaurant Guide
There is a rapidly growing range of dining and entertainment options on Koh Chang.
Koh Chang Restaurants & Bars, our new restaurant guide, helps visitors choose from the very best dining on the island. Only the best restaurants and bars are included so that visitors are assured of a great dining and entertainment experience.
You can pick up a copy of the guide at Trat airport or at restaurants, bars, hotels and other businesses all over the Koh Chang.
Advertising on The Online Guide to Koh Chang.
We offer competitive rates for placed ads on our website. Please contact us for details.
Developing a business identity
We can also help design your logos, brochures and take care of your whole business identity development. Our clients tell us that they find it much more convenient dealing face to face with us on the island rather than having to get things done remotely in Bangkok. 
Reciprocal Links Program
If you have a website which you would like to have us link to we are always happy to do so in return for a reciprocal link from your site to us. You site needs to fit into a logical place on ours and your link to us must not be on a links page but contained in the general body of your website. You can also download (.gif) our Banner Ad to display on your site. Just save as when it comes up. After it has been linked to us just send us an email with the link URL and we will provide a reciprocal link to your site provided it is in some way related to travel information.
Our Print and Design Services
Our design team can help you to create an attractive and professional brochure to help you promote your business. Our rates are reasonable and we can guarantee that your brochure will be written in clear, concise English.
Websites
We have developed websites for many clients here on the Island. See some of them below.
The site you are visiting right now was built and is managed by our web team.
- Our web service includes everything from setting up your website name and your associated email through managing the site to get it up and running. We can also be retained as your webmaster to make ongoing changes and ensure your site is always up to date.
- If you are a retailer or have products to sell please ask us about our complete eRetail solutions including shopping carts and online payments through PayPal.
- You can also have a small site hosted right here on our site with a link from your listing in our database or from an ad you have anywhere on the Online Guid
- We can also provide site which require a login to see one or all pages. See our demo.
Online Confirmed Resrervations
New. A site with online, realtime bookings with the option for payment by PayPal to confirm the booking. See our demo.
Costs
When you have decided what you want we will quote for the work. Content should be provided by you, including all images, but if you need help we can assist you. Sometimes we have to buy programmed elements for your website. These costs are additional to our quotation but will be set out before we start. Registration of your domain name and hosting of your website are also additional costs.
Normally we require a 50% (+ and software, registration and hosting fees) up front deposit with the balance due on completion before we upload your site to your server.
Web References & Samples
Basically we can develop any website using the latest web technologies. But the starting point is always to answer the question, "How do you want your website to grow your business?" After that we can design a site to meet those needs. And we can help you with this step too.
Getting Started
These are two options you could look at as a starter. We have many more options which we can show you. Or we can start from scratch with your own ideas or layouts.
Option 1 from 30,000 baht. Click Here
Option 2 from 50,000 baht. Click Here
Samples of our work
- Site 1 Funky Hut (from 40,000 baht)
- Site 2 White Sand Dive Center (from 30,000 baht)
- Site 3 Ploy Scuba (from 120,000 baht)
- Site 4 The Guide Online (database option included) (from 175,000 baht). This site is generally refered to as a Portal site since it opens up a number of links to other resources.
- Site 5 TRUPCO Plumbing in North London (from 45,000)
- Site 6 Corey Wild, wildlife film procucer (from 40,000)
- Site 7 A data driven Real Estate site (from 50,000)
- Site 8 Site for a TV Station (from 60,000)
- Site 9 A 4 Star resort on Koh Chang (from 40,000)
- Site 10 An Italian Restaurant (Mini Site paid for monthly)
- Site 11 Another Italian Restaurant (Mini site paid for monthly)
- Site 12 A site for a football club in Bangkok (from 35,000)
- Site 14 A composite site for 2 bar/restaurants, a resort and an hotel (coming soon)
Shopping Sites
If you have a retail business and are thinking of selling on the Internet we have two custom solutions, starting at 10,000 baht + hosting and registration. These are sites, which once set up, allow you to manage content without any further assistance from us. We are there however if you need us. Both sites will accept card payments through PayPal but you must have a PayPal account which we can integrate into your site. These sites can be integrated into any of the sites above.