Case study / Website strategy, UX & Webflow
Cottesmore Hotel, Golf & Country Club.
One clearer digital welcome for a many-sided country club.
01 / The challenge
The website had become hard to use and harder to maintain.
Cottesmore's existing WordPress site was prone to glitches, difficult to update and dependent on outside support for routine changes.
The replacement also had to make sense of a broad venue. Golf, health club, hotel stays, dining, weddings and beauty each needed a clear route without losing the feeling of one country club.
02 / The approach
Organise the breadth first, then give the venue room to breathe.
Albatross mapped the service journey and explored two homepage directions before the approved design was carried into the inner pages. The brief covered key routes including health club, green fees, the club story, hotel and salon, self-catering, membership and contact.
The chosen system paired generous photography with direct service navigation and clear booking or enquiry actions. Albatross then developed the website in Webflow with a CMS for ongoing content management.
03 / The website
From a crowded front door to clear service routes.
The original design record and today's live site show the same organising idea at work: let visitors see the breadth of Cottesmore, then give every intent a direct next step. The live captures below record the current website in September 2026.
A clearer welcome
Turn a long menu of options into a calm first choice.
The archived previous homepage placed a dense navigation and a row of booking actions over the venue image. The current homepage gives the place more space, keeps the main services visible and holds one prominent booking route in the header.
From service to action
Make each service easy to find and act on.
Golf has its own introduction, course imagery and tee-time action. On mobile, the contact journey gathers names and contact details, then asks what the visitor is enquiring about before the message.
04 / The delivered site
A Webflow site the club team runs itself.
The responsive website and CMS bring the full venue offer into clearer golf and enquiry routes, while giving the Cottesmore team a practical way to manage routine updates.
Project details from the original Cottesmore case study.
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