Project

Aethos Saragano

About the client

Aethos Hotels has a selection of amazing boutique hotels in several countries in Europe – an entire village in the Umbrian hills, a beautiful mansion in Corsica, a hip city centre hangout in Milan, a new build property on Portugal’s Surf Coast – and there are more on the way. Stylish and hip, eschewing formality for friendliness, this is a company with a vision – and an ethos.

The brief

Having designed and built the Aethos brand site, the next step was to develop a website design for their various hotels. Uisng the brand site as a basis, we created a variation that would best showcase their unique properties, including a range of colours that can be selected in each case according to the style of hotel – city, beach, mountain, etc. Aethos Saragano is a good example of this project.

The Project

  • Website Design and Development
  • Premium Hosting
  • Security and Backups
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Content Distribution Network
  • Website Management
Showcase

Hotel Miró, Bilbao, Spain

With Hotel Miró, the brief was to take over and manage an existing website built on a commercial WordPress theme as well as the associated SEO and Adwords campaigns. Since taking charge of the site, we have rewritten some of the theme code to better handle the CSS changes the previous agency had applied, and also taken steps to improve site speed, often a weak point of commercial multi-themes.

Recently, we have developed a dedicated ecommerce system allowing the hotel to offer Gift Vouchers direct to website visitors without requiring a third party system.

Aethos Hotels Brand Site

As a startup hotel company, Aethos looked to us to provide a stylish web presence quickly and smoothly. Working directly with their Chief Exec and within thier brand guidelines, we pulled together a design for their brand site that showcases the company’s vision and built it in multiple languages in a very short timeframe.

Gran Hotel Domine, Bilbao, Spain

Gran Hotel Domine had an existing single page website that clearly needed updating to showcase the refurbished rooms, suites and other facilities of the hotel. Staring with a bespoke design, we developed a complete new website, including reworking certain elements of the design part way through to highlight new facilities being brought online.

Recently, we have developed a dedicated ecommerce system allowing the hotel to offer Gift Vouchers direct to website visitors without requiring a third party system.

Caelis Restaurant, Barcelona, Spain

As with all restaurants, the key to getting this website right was to present the right mix of the visual with the practical. Website visitors need to be inspired by the images of the dishes, the staff, the restaurant itself, but also be able to find pertinent information quickly, and be able to book a table in just a few clicks.

La Taverna del Mar, Costa Brava, Spain

Together with the owners and managers of La Taverna del Mar, we finalised a design for the new website that encapsulated the history of the restaurant, its informality, proximity to the sea and its primary offering of seafood dishes. The previous site we built for them was particularly pleasing from a visual aspect but was done before responsive website became such a basic requirement, so it was decided that we should maintain the style of the previous site to the greatest extent possible, whilst improving the usability, making the site responsive, permitting management of the site via the WordPress CMS and so on.

Casa das Janelas com Vista, Lisbon, Portugal

Together with the owners of Casa das Janelas com Vista, we decided that the property needed a new website, partly as the existing one was built before responsive sites became the norm, and partly because the property was planning to add additional rooms and services. As the property is so design-led, the website design was initially developed by the property’s graphic design agency, and we subsequently realised it as a responsive bespoke WordPress theme and website from the PSD files provided.