Samko Holdings Corporate Website

Challenge

It is the group site that sits above several of the hotels, venues and restaurants I worked on in 2025. In March 2025 the group had an Elementor Pro build that was not responsive. It was also missing the pages a corporate site needs to explain who runs the company and what its divisions do. The goal was a finished, mobile-ready site with leadership, history and division pages, working contact and newsletter forms, and a move from staging to the group's own hosting.

Approach

The stack is Elementor Pro with its theme builder for the header and footer templates, PHP, Yoast SEO and GoDaddy. Keeping the Elementor Pro build rather than restarting was the pragmatic choice, because the design was approved and only the engineering was missing. I migrated the site from staging to GoDaddy hosting on 24 and 25 March 2025. Measured after launch, PageSpeed Insights scored 96 on desktop and 90 on mobile, and I delivered GTmetrix reports alongside. The handover documents the design system: a gold palette with Inria typography on a 12-column grid, a fixed shrinking navigation, and fade-in hero and card hover effects. It also covers how to edit templates, pages, services, redirects and form leads. In July 2025 form submissions started failing. I traced it to GoDaddy's Airo Plus cache and resolved it by upgrading PHP from 8.0 to 8.3, the same fix I later applied on a sister hotel site. I also produced a full site backup and export for the client in May 2025.

Solution

I took the existing build, made its 12 pages fully responsive and added the missing pieces. These were a leadership page with chairman and chief financial officer designations, history, mission and vision, division pages for hospitality, energy, leisure and restaurants with an energy slider, a careers page, and a contact page with forms and a newsletter signup wired to the group inbox. The page set covers home, about, history, leadership, mission and vision, an overview of the group, the four division pages, careers and contact. Navigation is a mega menu. The site carries Yoast SEO, Wordfence and WP Activity Log, with an exit popup to capture leaving visitors. I hid an unfinished insights page until the group has content for it.

Results

This was a freelance project through a London agency, live at samkoholding.com. The group now has a responsive corporate site it can edit from documented templates, with leads and newsletter signups arriving in its inbox and a measured performance baseline to hold future changes against. The GoDaddy cache incident became a reusable diagnosis for the group's other sites.

Have a half-finished corporate site that needs completing and launching? Send me the staging link and I will reply with a plan.