Web design in Porthmadog

Place names have to be right

Customers search using Welsh place names, spelled properly with their accents. A site that anglicises them, or drops the diacritics, misses those searches and reads as careless to local readers.

Listing the villages and areas you serve in their correct Welsh forms is a small amount of work with a disproportionate effect in this part of Wales.

It matters to visitors too, who are looking up names they have seen on signs and maps.

Serving a community and a visitor trade at once

Local trade is conducted in Welsh; much of the visitor trade is conducted in English. Both are real, and a bilingual site is the honest answer rather than a compromise.

Where full translation is not sustainable, a genuine Welsh section and Welsh-speaking contact are better than a token gesture.

Heritage railways and Snowdonia

Porthmadog's railways and outdoor tourism bring visitors who need distances, timetables and practical detail rather than description.

Questions people here ask

Why do place names matter so much?

Because customers search using the Welsh spellings. Anglicised or unaccented names miss those searches and read as careless.

Do we need a fully bilingual site?

Ideally, in this area. Where that is not sustainable, a genuine Welsh section with Welsh-speaking contact is the honest alternative.

What do visitors need?

Distances, timetables, parking and practical detail. They are planning logistics in an area they do not know.