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Not All Italian Websites Look So Bad

At the risk of being accused of being a pot calling a kettle black (Yep, I know this blog is getting rather cluttered), I have to say that after doing a little web based research for my latest project, my Italy is in Italian contemporary art site, I’ve come across some rather good looking, and, generally, well written English sections of Italian websites. Well, a family of them actually.

These sites form part of a mini-network run by the Ferragamo family, of the fashion house “Salvatore Ferragamo”. WIth the possible exception of the Viesca Estate site, all of the others are very slick.

I know they are at the top end of the market, but even so, it’s good to see what can be done. OK, so these people have money, of that there is no doubt, but, to their credit, they appear to know how to spend it rather wisely.

I hope they won’t mind too much, but I’ve stolen the list of links to each of these sites and popped them below, so you can have a quick gander, if you so desire.

Fashion
Salvatore Ferragamo – Fashionable clothes
www.ferragamo.com

Resort & Hospitality
Lungarno Hotels
www.lungarnohotels.com

Resort and Winery
Il Borro
www.ilborro.com

Marine Industry
Camper & Nicholsons Yachting Ltd – motor cruisers to dream about.
www.cnyachting.com

Nautor’s Swan – Lovely yachts – exploring the boats virtually is a pleasure.
www.nautorswan.com

Prestigious Rental and Villas
Il Borro
www.villailborro.com

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Viesca Estate
www.viescaestate.com

As for this here blog, it’s going to get a facelift shortly.

About Alex Roe

Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy for more than a decade. He founded Italy Chronicles in 2005 as Blog from Italy. Alex is a Business Insider Europe contributor.

When not working on Italy Chronicles, Alex teaches English at a business school in Milan, translates, writes articles for other web sites and runs training courses.

Alex tweets news and information about Italy to his 7400+ Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly.

Comments

  1. ameo says:

    never thoght of good sites or bad sites ,

    but for sure the design of ANY site i’m visiting tells me if i’m gonna see it again or not .

    BTW . the list have some really cool sites .

    thanks

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    http://www.judithgreenwood.com/thinkonit/

    -Cara

    PS I like your spam protection, versus the usual captcha apps that I can’t understand!

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