Hammerhavnens Bådfart

Updated Nov 18, 2022

If you ever visit the Danish island of Bornholm, you can go on a short boat ride from Hammerhavnen near Hammershus. It’s a nice little trip along the rocky coast, which is a geological feature unique to the island in an otherwise flat country. It’s mostly a tourist attraction.

I personally know some of the people running the operation. One of them is fairly tech savvy, and for many years they’ve had a web page with prices and contact information. It was originally made with Microsoft FrontPage for a different era of the web that didn’t consider mobile devices a serious design target. In the last decade, those have completely dominated the web, and using one to read the page’s tiny serif font required zooming and panning. Clearly, the design was due for an update.

I offered to help out and redesigned the page to be mobile-first. I added some niceties that you’d expect, like a Google Maps widget for directions, a Facebook widget for status updates, and expanded information in multiple languages. The page is built with Eleventy and Tailwind.

• Hammerhavnens Bådfart