Golden Arrow Marine have cared for boats in Poole for decades. The rebuild brings the site up to modern standards without losing the assurance that heritage earns.
A rebuilt website for a Poole boatyard with generations of heritage.
Golden Arrow Marine have been looking after boats in Poole for generations, and that history is the most valuable thing they own. When we revisited the website, the brief was not to reinvent the company. It was to bring the site up to current standards without sanding off the character that makes a boat owner trust the yard in the first place.
Boat owners are exacting customers. They are handing over something valuable, often their favourite possession, and they research carefully before they do. The rebuild leans into that, presenting the craft, the services and the sheer length of the track record with the weight they deserve, and making it straightforward to get in touch once someone is convinced.
The practical gains are in speed and structure. The site is now properly mobile first, which matters for an audience that checks things standing on a pontoon or sitting in a car park at the marina, and the underlying markup is cleaner and quicker. Services are laid out so a visitor can find the specific job they need without wading through the rest.
We kept the tone deliberately classic rather than fashionable. A yard of this standing does not need to shout, and a site that tried to would ring false. What it needed was to look as well maintained as the boats it hands back, load quickly, and be easy to use. Hosting and support sit with our team in Poole, a short drive from the yard.
A modernised build that keeps the classic, assured character a yard with this much history has earned.
Rebuilt mobile first, because boat owners research from the pontoon and the car park as often as from a desk.
Secure hosting and support from our Poole team, keeping the site dependable through the season and out of it.
A selection of websites we have designed, built and hosted for businesses across Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset.
A busy WooCommerce store whose data was locked inside it. We built a portal alongside the shop that answers the questions the store could not, and took their consent record back from a third party.
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A prestige car dealership needed order paperwork signed and paid without the endless chasing. The portal we built does the chasing itself, and keeps the record.
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F40 Parts were emailing customers by hand with no reliable record of opt-outs or dead addresses. We replaced that with one system that verifies everything before it sends.
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Fox Wardrobes run the whole business through a single custom system, replacing scattered spreadsheets, paper cut lists and personal inboxes with one place where nothing gets lost.
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Jordan Acoustics sell some of the finest hi-fi in the world from a showroom near Bournemouth. The site had to carry that standard into an online shop.
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Clad Force re-roof and re-clad the factories, warehouses and retail units that keep Dorset working. Their website needed to look as solid as the buildings they hand back.
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Asbestos Contracting Limited had outgrown the site we first built them. The rebuild gives a regulated, safety critical business a presence that matches how it has grown.
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Green IP bring voice, mobile, connectivity and security together for businesses here and abroad. The website had to read as seriously as the clients they win.
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Locators had grown well beyond the site we first built. The rebuild reorganises a very broad offer so a visitor with one specific problem can find one specific answer.
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