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Proposal · prepared for Shill's of Cockermouth · 1 June 2026

A few specific fixes for shillsofcockermouth.co.uk

Shill's of Cockermouth · Cockermouth · website rebuild

I rebuild small-business sites in my own time when I can see they are leaving something on the table. I spent ten minutes on shillsofcockermouth.co.uk and three things stood out, all on the parts of the site that should be working hardest for a deli, a wine merchant and a restaurant under one roof. Three findings below, then a working rebuild you can click through.

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11 South Street · Cockermouth · since 2008

Delicatessen, wine merchant and cafe, founded by Nick and Wendy Shill, run today by the Speck family. Open the live preview ↗

Three findings, from ten minutes on the live site

What a deli, a wine merchant and a restaurant under one roof are currently leaving on the table.

A walk-through of the live shillsofcockermouth.co.uk on 1 June 2026. None of these is a redesign for its own sake, each is a thing the business already owns that the site is not showing.

01

On a phone the navigation menu is rendered twice, so the same links stack on top of each other and moving between the deli, wine and restaurant sections is confusing.

What I saw
The current site is built on WordPress with Elementor, and both the desktop menu and the mobile menu are output into the page at once. Reading the homepage source there are over two hundred menu-item entries across two separate nav blocks. On a narrow screen the duplication shows, so a visitor on a phone meets the same set of links repeated and is not sure which one moves them through the shop, the wine list and the upstairs restaurant.
In the rebuild
The rebuild ships one navigation that adapts to the screen, a single tidy row on desktop and a single drawer on mobile, so the deli, the wine merchant and the cafe are each one clear tap away.
02

The homepage loads several very large unoptimised photos, and the opening hours are written out differently from one page to the next so the shop and restaurant times do not agree.

What I saw
The landing page pulls in full-size photography, several images in the multiple-megabyte range served at their original camera dimensions, which is the slowest thing on the page on a phone over rural Cumbrian signal. Separately, the shop hours and the restaurant hours are phrased differently across the pages, so a customer checking whether the deli is open on a Monday, or whether tapas is running on a Thursday evening, can come away with two different answers.
In the rebuild
The rebuild compresses every photo to a web weight, lazy-loads anything below the fold, and states the shop hours and the restaurant hours once, side by side, as a single source of truth.
03

The only structured data on the site marks it up as a Restaurant, so Google reads the upstairs kitchen but the ground-floor delicatessen and wine merchant stay invisible to Search as a shop.

What I saw
A crawl of shillsofcockermouth.co.uk finds JSON-LD for a Restaurant, with the address, hours and the 4.6 rating from 471 reviews. What it does not carry is a Store or LocalBusiness type for the deli and the wine merchant downstairs. So a person searching for a cheese counter, a Cumbrian hamper, or a wine merchant in Cockermouth is far less likely to be shown Shill's, because Google has only been told there is a restaurant here, not a shop.
In the rebuild
The rebuild ships a Store plus FoodEstablishment graph alongside the Restaurant, with the full South Street address, the telephone in E.164 form, the separate shop and restaurant hours, the 2008 founding, the 4.6 from 471 reviews, and a FAQPage from the questions customers actually ask.
Where the site is today

The current build, and what the rebuild changes.

Current ↗ shillsofcockermouth.co.uk
Platform
WordPress + Elementor
Mobile nav
Desktop and mobile menus both rendered. Duplicated links on a phone.
Images
Several multi-megabyte photos at full camera size on the landing page.
Hours
Shop and restaurant hours phrased differently page to page. They disagree.
Schema
Restaurant only. No Store or LocalBusiness for the deli and wine merchant.
Proposed
Framework
Astro static front (Astro 6), fast on rural signal
Mobile nav
One adaptive navigation. A tidy row on desktop, a single drawer on mobile.
Images
Every photo compressed to web weight, below-fold images lazy-loaded
Hours
Shop hours and restaurant hours stated once, side by side
Schema
Store + FoodEstablishment + Restaurant + address + hours + 2008 + FAQPage
Pricing

One fixed price. No retainer, no contract.

The build rebuilds the front of the site and keeps the online shop and the table-booking you already run. Everything below is the whole cost.

£2,000
Fixed for the rebuild. One-off.
£150
Per month for hosting and ongoing care.
£50
Optional. Embedded chatbot trained on 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, reply with two or three 20-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three builds in the north this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 11 June, the proposal site comes down.

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