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Ravello. Brief to live in six days.

The Ravello restaurant website home page

Ravello is a family-run Italian restaurant under three gables on St Margaret's Street in Bradford on Avon. Bruno found me through a Google search, sent the brief on a Monday, and the new site was serving ravellos.co.uk the following Monday, with his email fixed along the way.

Visit ravellos.co.uk ↗ Read the case study
6 daysBrief to launch
EveryOld page redirected
0PDF menus left
1Person to ring

The client

An independent restaurant with a vaulted cellar dining room, a rooftop terrace and a loyal local following. The site had been with the same agency for about nine years. Bruno wanted something modern, closer in feel to The Ivy, that the family could run without waiting on anyone else.

Before

A site nobody at the restaurant could change

A WordPress build on a page builder, hosted by the agency. A new menu or an event meant sending a request and waiting, so the site was rarely current.

Before

Menus as files, not pages

Menus lived as uploaded documents. Hard to read on a phone and almost invisible to Google, which is where most people deciding where to eat tonight start.

Before

Email quietly failing checks

The mail records were incomplete. The sender list left out Google, the signing key was malformed and there was no policy record at all. Mail from the restaurant was a candidate for spam folders.

What I
recommended

Two complete design directions and five logo routes, built as working pages rather than pictures, so Bruno could click through them on his own phone before deciding anything.

01 / Listen

Keep what works

The dusk photograph of the building stayed. So did the menus, the regulars' favourite dishes and OpenTable for bookings.

02 / Design

Two directions

A dark, Ivy-like concept and a lighter Amalfi one. Bruno chose the first, with the three-gable logo.

03 / Build

Hand-written code

No page builder. Every old photograph from the previous site was recovered and reused, including the vault and the terrace.

04 / Move

Domain, email, launch

DNS moved to Cloudflare, mail authentication fixed, every old URL redirected, then the domain transferred out of the agency.

What was
built

01

A restaurant website

Home, menus, what's on, our story and visit pages. In the logo, a window glows and the chimney smokes, but only over the dark hero so it never distracts from the menu.

02

A menu and events editor

Bruno signs in and edits menus, events and the seasonal pop-up himself. Changes are live the moment he saves, and every save keeps the previous version so a mistake is one click to undo.

03

Menus as real pages

Every menu is proper text on the page, so it reads cleanly on a phone and search engines can see the dishes and prices.

04

Booking, vouchers and enquiries

OpenTable in a slide-in drawer, the existing gift-voucher shop, and an enquiry form for large parties that emails the restaurant directly.

05

Email and domain sorted

Sender records, signing key and a reporting policy put right, so the restaurant's mail authenticates properly. The domain moved to Cloudflare, where renewals are at cost and the restaurant can see everything.

Where it
landed

Results are early. The site has been live since 12 October 2026, so this page covers what changed, not traffic figures yet. I'll add those once there are enough months to say something honest.

Now

The family runs it

Menus and events change the same day, by the people who cook the food, with no agency in the middle.

Now

Nothing lost in the move

Every page address from the old site points to its new home, so links in old reviews, guides and Google results still land somewhere useful.

Now

Mail that arrives

Messages from the restaurant now pass Google's authentication checks instead of failing them.

Now

One supplier

Website, hosting, domain and email records with one person who answers the phone.

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