Helsingør Nordhavn
Making a complex harbour easier to navigate
Helsingør Nordhavn is one of Denmark’s largest marinas and also manages the Langebro and Strandhave dinghy facilities. The new website brings practical information together in a clearer experience for berth holders, visiting sailors, motorhome guests and users of the dinghy facilities.
The challenge
Making three harbour facilities, many audiences and large amounts of practical information easy to navigate
The previous website had unclear navigation and a restrictive system that made even simple visual and content changes difficult. Helsingør Nordhavn needed a more modern website that visitors could navigate confidently and staff could keep up to date themselves.
Three harbour facilities. Many different needs.
Helsingør Nordhavn is a marina, a visiting harbour and a workplace. It also manages the Langebro and Strandhave dinghy facilities. The website therefore needs to help people with very different needs: permanent berth holders, visiting sailors, motorhome guests, associations and local users of dinghy and kayak spaces.
On the previous website, practical information, news, prices, regulations and documents sat in a structure that was difficult to understand. The task was to create one coherent digital overview without oversimplifying the reality the harbour needs to communicate.
Navigation built around its users
We began by organising the content into clear entry points based on why people visit. Permanent berths, visiting sailors, motorhomes, lifting and launching, and the individual harbour facilities each received a natural route into the website.
The new information architecture makes it easier to understand the differences between the harbour facilities and find the relevant amenities, prices, waiting lists and contact details without first knowing how the organisation works internally.
Repeat the information – not the work
Opening hours, contact details, shortcuts and other practical information appear throughout the website. We built these recurring elements as global sections in Nectarblocks, allowing them to be reused without being copied from page to page.
When the editorial team changes a central piece of information, the update appears everywhere the section is used. This creates a more consistent website and reduces the risk of visitors encountering different versions of the same information.
A defined place for every document
Meeting minutes, newsletters, regulations and price lists need to be easy to find today and remain understandable as the archive grows. We therefore created dedicated content types for the documents the harbour publishes regularly.
With custom content types in WordPress, staff can upload a PDF, choose the correct category and place the document under the relevant year. The website then handles the consistent presentation.
An editorial team that can move forward independently
The website was designed and developed in WordPress with Nectarblocks over six to eight weeks. We worked closely one-to-one with Helsingør Nordhavn’s communications officer so the structure, components and editorial workflows matched the reality of their day-to-day work.
The result is a more modern and cohesive website with clearer navigation for visitors and a simpler editorial experience behind the scenes. Routine updates, documents and recurring information can now be handled internally without depending on development support.
