Robin and Marion Jones, Croque-en-Bouche, Underdown - Grooms Cottage, Gloucester Road, Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8 2JE. UK

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I don’t just have hotel and restaurant clients, the great and the aspiring.  There’s also outside caterers, a food manufacturer,  a patisserie,  wine journalists, two B&B’s, a book publisher, solicitor,

a fencer and  fridge hire operations.

 

Thanks for visiting. The best way to judge me is to judge the work. So...

Flash! graphics are cool. They get attention,
but hog memory and may distract from
the real business.

 

We are wine merchants, but more importantly these days we do websites and design. And this is our own site, where we display our wares, and play around a bit! And this time round it’s denim and Flash!

 

Croque-en-Bouche used to be a quite famous, small restaurant! Michelin star - 22 years, Good Food Guide 8/10. Just my wife, Marion and me, Robin. Read more about the restaurant. But we’ve done with that. Since 2002 we have done websites and design for a small number of clients. The slant has been towards food/wine-based companies, where we have expertise and experience. We are respected Internet traders ourselves, selling our wines mail-order. More on e-commerce.

 

Developing a site or a wine list usually raises related design issues, concerning promotional stuff and logos; and often menus for restaurants and hotels. The work all overlaps, so start-up (and maintenance) costs are never crazy. And set up a site needs hosting. We have top quality space online. More about hosting.

 

If you want the world to find you on the web, then technically, you better look nice to the search engines, and the few unfortunates not on broadband. This means not too much flashy stuff and graphic images, and lots of nice relevant basic text. See search-engine info.

You can also see some web tips.

 

Style matters, but not over substance!

 

The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny has a 2007 Award of Excellence for its wine list - my work, 95 of my wines - from the world’s top wine magazine, ‘Wine Spectator’. 24 UK winners, only one in Wales! Since 2002, this hotel has been transformed. Read about our work on wine lists.

 

Our latest websites have included our old home; now a B&B called ‘The Old Croque’. and importantly with an eye to the future, the Angel Hotel now has a ‘mobile’ (.mobi) website. Surfing the net on your phone is in its infancy, but watch it grow! These sites need to be simple and 100% code compliant. And you need short domain names to fit the small screen!

 

You can see how a .mobi site looks by going to http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php

Enter angelhotel.mobi, but don’t get too excited! These are very simple ‘starter’ sites. If you think a .mobi is a good idea then I can get you a domain now (more pricey than .co’s at £60/two years tho’). We got angelhotel.mobi. How many other Angel hotels in the world are going to want that sometime soon? See all about our sites.

 

I looked after the now-retired Merchant House wine list in Ludlow. I added some and gave the list style. It won an AA Wine list of the Year. Pretty good for a list of under 90 wines. Read about my wine list work.

You can also see some wine list and menu tips.

 

And lastly, I think we offer value-for-money. If you want to ask any of our existing cutomers, I’m sure they will give you frank opinions! You can check our charges here.