Since 2000, Grooves on The Green has been the pulse of Poole's cultural scene. Every June, Ashley Cross comes alive with music, food, and festivities that draw the community closer.…
Celebrating togetherness with music, activities, and joy for all ages!
Grooves on The Green didn't just need a digital platform. They needed one that could match the vivid energy of their festival and handle the surge of festival-goers who were eager to participate. Their current website had low user engagement and needed help coping with high peak traffic. Objectively, this was impacting the user experience and their ticket sales. The festival's lack of a robust and responsive website threatened to undermine its reputation. Attendees found it tough to navigate the site, which led to frustration and decreased engagement. With an upcoming event, the pressure was on to create a solution that could attract and retain visitor interest. They wanted to ensure attendees could easily find event details and access tickets via their chosen ticket provider. Expect Best took on the challenge of transforming the Grooves on The Green website. The result is a fresh, mobile-responsive design that captivates and engages users. We restructured their site's architecture to ensure a seamless user experience even under heavy load. Our hosting solutions, designed for high-traffic reliability, have made the site ideal for ticket releases. This overhaul has greatly improved Grooves on The Green's online presence and user satisfaction. Festival-goers can easily navigate the site, ensuring a positive and reassuring experience. Now, it's far easier for festival-goers to celebrate Poole's spirit in style.
Expect Best revitalised the Grooves on The Green website by focusing on usability and aesthetic appeal. Our goal was to mirror the festival’s lively atmosphere online. We achieved this by integrating a streamlined, intuitive navigation system. One that makes it easy for users to explore event line-ups, artist bios, and community activities. The new design features rich, engaging visuals and a colour scheme that echoes the vibrant life of the festival. These features have helped enhance user interaction and retention.
Our hosting solutions were tailored to meet the high demands of a major community festival like Grooves on The Green. We provided scalable hosting to manage the large traffic volume during peak festival periods. Doing so keeps the website running and responsive during high traffic. Now, it can handle thousands of users who are buying tickets or checking events simultaneously. Our reliable hosting services minimised downtime. This kept the site accessible at critical times and ensured a seamless user experience.
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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