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Websites / 2026

Launching

Blue Whale Resort

A coastal resort website rebuilt around the view, with booking one tap away.

The new Blue Whale Resort site: aerial hero on desktop and The View section on a phone
The brief
A private nature reserve on the Garden Route coast, with sea views most places would build a brand on. The old site buried them under a dated template, and the wedding and conference venue had no page of its own.
What we did
We rebuilt the site around the sea view, enhanced the resort's own photographs rather than replacing them, wired Book Now to the live booking system and gave the venue its own page for its two buyers: couples, and companies planning a conference or year-end function. Real guest reviews replaced the old feed, and every page carries its own search markup.
The line
Stay. Celebrate. Connect.

Before and after

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The new Blue Whale home page on a desktopThe old Blue Whale home page on a desktopBeforeAfter
Home page, desktop
The new Blue Whale home page on a phoneThe old Blue Whale home page on a phoneBeforeAfter
Home page, phone

Gallery

  • The Whale House: the resort's own photograph of the main bedroom, a thumbnail strip of the house
  • The old Blue Whale home page (captured 13/08/2026) beside the new one, both at the top of the page
  • 'The View is the destination' section with the resort's own photograph of the boardwalk to the rocky shore and a
  • Accommodation section: Sea-View Chalets with the resort's photographs, sleeps and sea-view tags, features and booking
  • Home page venue band over the walkway photograph: 'Celebrate by the ocean', with weddings and conferences side by side
  • Three phone screens of the new Blue Whale site: hero, The View and the Sea-View Chalets

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