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01 / 07 — Rebuild

Aldiola Country Resort

Hotel · Country resort  ·  Sardinia, Italy

Aldiola Country Resort sits above Lake Liscia in the Gallura hills of Sardinia — a quiet, upscale retreat where the whole proposition is the place: the water, the light, the space between things. That is exactly what a website has to carry across before anyone thinks about dates.

Type
Hotel · Country resort
Place
Sardinia, Italy
Old stack
Blastness booking template
Focus
Hospitality
Pages rebuilt
6 captured
Shown here
28 captures

The site it had didn't do that. It ran on a Blastness booking template — the kind of hotel system where the reservation bar is bolted across the top and the property itself is squeezed underneath into a cramped 2×2 grid of thumbnails. Functional, but it led with the transaction and buried the reason to book. A guest arrived at a form, not at a view.

So this rebuild is not a reskin of that template. It's a full reconstruction that reorders the priorities — put the place first, let the rooms and the table follow, and keep exactly one clear path to reserving. Everything below was rebuilt by hand from the real content and freshly captured from the live build.

A Page by page

Both ways, every page.

Original on the left, rebuild on the right — the same page, the same viewport. A redesign is judged past the homepage, so every page we hold both sides of is here, desktop and mobile. Where the rebuild folded several pages into one, every original is shown against it rather than one being picked to flatter the comparison.

Gallery

Before / After
Aldiola Country Resort — Gallery (desktop), originalBeforeOpen full page ↗

Not a failed capture — their Gallery link was dead. It returned “OOOPS · Pagina non trovata” on the day we looked, and the offers row underneath was rendering broken-image placeholders.

Aldiola Country Resort — Gallery (mobile), originalBeforeOpen full page ↗

Not a failed capture — their Gallery link was dead. It returned “OOOPS · Pagina non trovata” on the day we looked, and the offers row underneath was rendering broken-image placeholders.

Experiences

2 pages → 1

Relax and What-to-do were two pages; the rebuild tells one story.

Contact

2 pages → 1

Where-we-are and Contacts were separate; the rebuild puts the map and the details together.

B What changed, and why

Area by area.

The working notes from the rebuild, unedited — what the original site did, and what replaced it. Written while the work was happening, in the language the site is in.

First impression
WasBooking date-picker jammed into the top bar, colliding with logo/nav; no headline or story.
NowFull-screen Lake Liscia hero with a clear promise ("Sardinia's quiet side") and one Reserve action.
Trust & proof
Was4.3/5 · 217 reviews + Travelers' Choice invisible on the homepage.
NowTrust strip under the hero surfaces 4-star · 4.3/217 · Travelers' Choice (real figures only).
Storytelling
WasGeneric 2×2 image-tile grid (Resort/Rooms/Restaurant/Offers); interchangeable template.
NowEditorial scroll: place → rooms → dining → relax → experiences → gallery → location.
Rooms
WasOne "ROOMS" tile, no detail.
NowAll 5 real categories as cards + a dedicated rooms page with an in-room amenities grid.
Restaurant
WasOne "RESTAURANT" tile.
NowDedicated appetite-forward feature + page: terrace-on-lake, half-board, Sardinian cuisine.
Experiences
WasBare "Relax" / "What to do" nav items.
NowRelax + Experiences sections with real proximity (Costa Smeralda ~20 min, lake, trekking).
Mobile
WasDesktop booking bar + dense nav don't adapt.
NowMobile-first, single-column, tap-friendly menu + persistent Reserve.
Conversion
WasPrimary action competes with a raw availability widget.
NowOne clear path: header Reserve (click-to-call), repeated CTAs, enquiry form.
Design
WasCramped small-caps, heavy terracotta footer, 2010-era chrome.
NowCormorant + Inter, generous whitespace, depth, tasteful motion; brand DNA kept and elevated.
Languages
WasIT/EN/FR/DE on a template.
NowIT (default) + EN static routes, clean switcher; extensible to FR/DE.
Performance & SEO
WasHeavy template, thin metadata, no visible schema.
NowStatic export, semantic HTML, OG + Hotel JSON-LD (real rating/geo), fast Core Web Vitals.
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