As part of our exansion into the Iberian peninsula, we present a new website for the Algarve and Southern Spain’s leading chandlery. We created the original design, e-commerce setup and outline of the site  on our development server so the client could populate it with products and tweak the design. It is now live (Dec 2025), and the client continues to add products.

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Identity and Navigation
The two most important considerations are identity and navigation. Your site should look distinctive, and the design should be consistent throughout. A good designer will help you create a corporate logo or complete corporate identity, or ensure continuity of your existing corporate identity by modify your existing logos and printed materials for the web.

Navigation systems
These may involve drop-down menus, rollovers or multi-layer navigation. They should be easy to use and easy on the eye, and they should not distract from the content. Have you ever ‘got lost’ on a website? That’s bad navigation. Your visitors should always know where they are and how to get to the information they want next. Menu systems also need to be search engine friendly – too many sites with fancy menus have pages that are invisible to search engines.

Bells and whistles
You may think you need videos, music, animations. Perhaps these would enhance your site, perhaps they would only distract and obscure the content. Your website is about your business, not about how impressive your website is as an artefact in its own right, and a balance has to be struck. Don’t let any web design company sell you fancy stuff you don’t need. Although striking design is important, Content is King.

In a nutshell
Good web design is web design that brings you business and makes money. You need a web designer who will build you a clean, distinctive looking site that is both affordable and effective, and that reflects your corporate identity. It should load quickly, comply with modern web standards and look good at different screen resolutions and in all browsers. Good design should be as future-proof as possible and allow for for the growth and maintenance of the site. The projected lifespan of a site can be greatly extended if sufficient thought is given to the original design.

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A unique yearly music festival that takes place in the river town of Alcoutim, in the Portuguese Algarve but enjoying a very special relationship with the Spanish town of San Lucar across the river. We took the site over from the existing developer in August 2025 at their request, and have really enjoyed extending its content and functionality.

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Atlantic Bay Cottage

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Features:

• Full e-commerce system plus payment gateway
• Unique dynamic pricing from entered measurements for mainsails and genoas
• Pop-up tooltips assist with making an order

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Features:

• Fabulous full-screen headers and jam packed with information and pictures
• All club documentation including membership forms online
• Club calendar 

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Features:

• Online booking
• Video and wildlife galleries
• Google Translate built in

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Features:

• Front page Facebook feed gives up to date trip reports with pictures
• Simple availability calendar makes the booking process robust and stress-free
• Home page slider with captions, plus a big photo gallery

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Features

• Online subs payments
• All club documentation etc. online and downloadable as PDFs
• For sale/wanted section
• Extensive Contacts and Links page
• News section

We also helped the Association recover their domain name after is was maliciously purchased and used by spammers.

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Features;

• Interactive zoomable charts of the canal
• Online manuals
• A huge amount of local information
• Videos

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