SandFest is more than just a festival. It's an experience. Born from a passion for music and the joy of the seaside, this one-day beach extravaganza encapsulates a unique blend of…
Boutique beach festival.
A boutique beach festival lives or dies by anticipation. SandFest brings music to the Poole seaside for one day each year, and its website has to carry the full weight of the build-up, telling people what the event is, why it is special and how to be part of it. That made the project a lovely challenge for our team, who happen to be based in the same town.
We designed a site that captures the blend of music and seaside joy the festival was born from. Bold, sunny and simple to move around, it gives the essential information room to breathe while letting the atmosphere of the event come through. Everything works as well on a phone in a queue as it does on a desktop at home.
Built for speed and set on SEO-ready foundations, the site is prepared for the sharp spikes in interest that a one-day event inevitably generates as the big day approaches. SandFest describes itself as more than just a festival, an experience, and its online home now lives up to that ambition.
The design channels the energy of a day on the sand, bright, bold and easy to explore. Festival-goers get the key details fast while the character of the event shines through every page.
We built the site light and quick so it holds up when interest surges around the event. The responsive build means it performs perfectly on the phones most visitors use.
Reliable, secure hosting from our Poole team keeps the site steady through the busiest moments of festival season. Backups and monitoring mean the organisers can focus on the event itself.
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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