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Proposal · prepared for Azure Gallery · 18 May 2026

A few specific fixes for azuresidmouth.co.uk.

Azure Gallery · Sidmouth · website rebuild

I rebuild small business sites in my spare time when I can see they are leaving conversions on the table. Three things stood out on the Azure homepage in ten minutes on a mobile. Three findings below, then a working rebuild you can click through at /preview/.

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Azure Gallery interior, Old Fore Street, Sidmouth
Old Fore Street · Sidmouth · EX10 8LP

Devon's finest art gallery on Old Fore Street, two hundred metres from the red cliffs of the Jurassic Coast. Open the live preview ↗


Three findings

What I noticed on the live site, in ten minutes on a phone.

Each finding is something a visitor can verify in one click on the current azuresidmouth.co.uk. The rebuild proves the fix at /preview/.

FINDING 01

Gallery image captions still read "Write your caption here".

What I saw

Three of the gallery captions on the live homepage and on /alex-gillo-glass leave the 123-reg Website Builder placeholder string in place. A first-time visitor scrolling past the represented work reads "Write your caption here" three times before they see an artist name. The captions live where the artist credit should live, which means every viewer is shown a template default in place of the most important piece of metadata a gallery can publish: who made this.

In the rebuild

The preview swaps the placeholder for a real caption format with artist, title, medium, and price band. Sidmouth visitors who recognise the seafront in a painting can find the artist behind it in one click. The captions are derived from the gallery taxonomy (Original Art, Prints, Sculpture, Jewellery, Glass, Ceramics), not invented.

FINDING 02

Multiple unlabeled "Button" elements throughout the navigation and gallery pages.

What I saw

The current site exposes at least four buttons that still carry the literal label "Button" from the 123-reg Website Builder default state, with no destination set. On mobile they appear stacked beneath the hero. Some of them sit next to artist tiles where a buyer would expect "Enquire" or "View artist". The unlabeled buttons aren't a small cosmetic issue; they signal "this site was never finished" to any visitor who lands from a Visit Devon listing or a Sidmouth tourism page.

In the rebuild

The preview replaces every button with a labelled action that maps to a real intent: enquire about a piece, see the next exhibition, view all works by an artist. No "Button" string survives.

FINDING 03

No artist names anywhere on the homepage.

What I saw

Azure represents named artists who exhibit here year after year. Nick John Rees lists Azure Gallery on his artist CV for five consecutive years from 2016 to 2020. Kirsten Jones calls Azure "the very fabulous Azure Gallery" on her own news page. Louise Brown credits Azure on Facebook. Alex Gillo has a dedicated page for hand-painted glass on the site. Caroline Tucker sells a Sidmouth print here. None of these names appears on the homepage. The only word used to describe the people whose work the gallery sells is "artists".

In the rebuild

The rebuild puts a represented-artists strip directly under the hero with named credits. Each tile links to that artist's page. Search engines and AI assistants can finally read "Azure Gallery represents Nick John Rees, Kirsten Jones, Louise Brown, Alex Gillo, Caroline Tucker." The gallery owner controls which names appear, and in what order, from a simple list at the top of the page.


Pricing

One number for the build. One for the care. Nothing else.

£2,000
Fixed for the rebuild. One off.
£150
Per month for hosting and ongoing care.
£50
Optional. Embedded chatbot trained on Azure FAQs.

No retainer. No contract. No in person visits, fully remote from Switzerland.

  • • One round of revisions before launch
  • • DNS cutover handled (you keep the domain in your name)
  • • 30 days of post launch tweaks at no extra cost
  • • Source code handed over on day 60 (you own everything)

The close

If the proposal lands.

If the proposal lands, reply with two or three twenty minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three Devon builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 28 May, the proposal site comes down.

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