I have noticed recently a few comments recently dotted over the forum requesting (please) an update regarding a start date for the new improved website. I realise the comments might have been missed so thought I’d put a note here. Any update is appreciated.
We haven't updated you all on progress and we really should have.
People have given a lot to this forum so it's completely understandable that questions are asked and we will always be honest with our answers.
We mentioned previously that our personal circumstances have been challenging and this has been ongoing for the past few years. Not financially challenging, we're fortunate in this regard, but in virtually every other aspect, we've taken a beating.
The building issues we have faced have been ridiculous, worse than people realise. We can't write about that in detail yet but we hope to at some point. It hasn't been a good time for us.
Dealing with the situation has been a full time job that we neither wanted or predicted and it is still ongoing.
Finally, on Christmas eve night we moved into our new (unfinished) house because we promised ourselves that no matter what, we'd be in by Christmas. There is still a huge amount of work to do but we are happy to be moving forward.
Following a very unusual Christmas we have taken time to decompress. We saw the forum posts but given the situation we couldn't respond straight away. Our silence is not through lack of interest, far from it. It is the circumstances we are dealing with.
We have not given you an update as we were waiting for something decent to say. We have been working on the website with the design company and progress is being made.
For transparency now we would like you to see some of the work and we will add some images on the Google drive link below. However we cannot link to the full website design for copyright reasons.
The following is the current situation with the whole development:
The design concept was completed and the website development more or less finished ready for real content to be added.
We asked the design company owner to improve the logo because it wasn't as good as the rest of the design. He agreed to do this once the development was completed.
Their lead designer came back from maternity leave. She saw our note about improving the logo and changed the whole website brand in its entirety without our instruction. It was changed to something really bright and brash that we dislike (see link). We were not happy to use it so we had to ask them to change it again.
Just before Christmas they sent us a new branding design using a wave format (see link) which is much nicer but we have asked them to have another look after the Three King's fiesta because we didn't want to accept something that was hurried together simply to fix the communication error.
So that is how things stand, it is being worked on and hopefully soon it will be finished. Here is the link with some design elements:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ifTbHC5bbHGlaHE4NDwJxJ1eou03Qr9J?usp=sharing
We haven't given this kind of update before because naturally you always hope that things will be finished. You don't want to share the bad stuff.
We understand that it is frustrating but it is important we get this right. It's not a small project and given the huge significance Puerto Pollensa has to all of us, there's a lot of pressure to do a good job.
Feliz Tres Reyes
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