Il Sorriso: A Gelateria Website With Online Orders and a Town Guide

A website for Il Sorriso, a gelateria on the seafront of Alba Adriatica, Italy: a page for every flavour, a take-away tub ordered online, a practical guide to the town with its own map, and postcards visitors make with their gelato. Built as a working demo for the owner, in Italian.

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Il Sorriso home page: the gelateria on a drawn map of the Alba Adriatica seafront

Il Sorriso Project at a Glance

Client

Il Sorriso, a gelateria and café on the seafront promenade of Alba Adriatica, open from the afternoon until midnight.

Scope

Content, design, menu and online orders, the town guide and map, visitor postcards, server and launch.

Stack

WordPress, YOOtheme Pro with custom builder elements, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, GSAP and Swup for motion.

Scale

34 flavour pages, 17 menu items, 28 guide pages, 123 places on the map and a blog.

What a Seaside Gelateria Website Needs

Most visitors are on holiday and on their phone. They want to see the flavours before they walk over, know what is in each one if they have an allergy, and find the shop on the promenade. Many of them also need to know where to park, which beach is free and where the nearest pharmacy is.

The owner needs a site that brings people to the counter, not a catalogue: every flavour and price editable by hand, take-away orders that arrive in order, and a reason for visitors to remember the place after the holiday.

What I Built for Il Sorriso

A page for every flavour

A photo in the cup, ingredients and allergens, values per 100 g, how it is made, how it compares with similar flavours and the questions people ask. The menu shows every flavour and product with its own photo.

A take-away tub ordered online

Visitors choose the size and the flavours, see their tub fill with the photos they picked, and pay when they collect it at the counter.

A guide to Alba Adriatica with its own map

How to arrive, beaches, getting around, useful services, food, places to stay, rainy days and children, with official sources. 123 places in 13 categories are drawn on a map in the style of the site, each with its own page.

Postcards from the visit

“Io ero qui” puts a visitor’s photo in the gelateria’s smile frame with its stamp. The photo stays on the phone; visitors can propose it for the public board, and each one is approved before it appears.

How a Take-Away Tub Order Works

1. The visitor builds the tub

Small, medium or large, with up to four flavours, filtered by creams and sorbets or searched by name.

2. The order reaches the shop

It appears in WordPress with the size and every flavour, so the counter prepares the right tub.

3. Collected and paid at the counter

The tub is ready in a thermal container; payment is taken at pickup.

Everything on the site is edited in WordPress without code: flavours, prices, photos, guide pages and places on the map. Fonts, the map and every image are served by the site itself, so nothing loads from other services before a visitor clicks.