Web design on the Costa Brava for businesses whose customers arrive from half of Europe.

A coastal site has two different customers

Somebody looking for a service in Palamós in August is standing up, phone in hand, low on battery and on patchy signal. Somebody looking at a house in Begur in January is sitting in Belgium with a coffee, comparing five websites.

The same site has to serve both, and that is what makes web design here a different problem than in a city.

For the August one: speed and contact

If the site is slow, they leave. If they have to hunt for the phone number, they leave. If the form asks for twelve fields, they leave.

So the sites we build for coastal businesses put contact details in view immediately, with a tappable phone number and WhatsApp, and load the minimum needed to show something useful.

For the January one: detail and trust

That one wants specifics. Real photographs, prices or at least ranges, terms, the exact location, and some sign that you exist and reply.

This is where a properly built multilingual site earns its money. Not machine translated on the fly, but a real version per language with its own address, so Google can offer the right one to whoever is searching.

What tends to be wrong with the site you have

When people come to us wanting a rebuild, the site is usually fine and something else is broken. When the site really is the problem, it is almost always one of three things.

It is slow on a phone, because of unoptimised images, twenty plugins loading at once, and a purchased template carrying features you never use. It cannot be edited without asking someone, so it quietly goes out of date, and an out-of-date site reads worse than an ugly one. Or it is registered to somebody else, which nobody discovers until they try to move.

What we do and what we do not

We build business sites, catalogues of services or properties, and small shops. We work from Calonge for the whole Costa Brava, and across Europe from Girona and Málaga.

We do not do photography or video, and on a coastal business those two carry a lot of weight. If your photos are not good, we will tell you that is your first expense and point you at somebody here before charging you for a website.

Timeline and terms

Four to eight weeks from having copy and photos. The quote is fixed, in writing, before anything starts.

We do the first meeting at your premises whenever we can, because seeing the place explains things a call does not. After that we work on our own and show you progress at two or three specific points rather than every day.