Website and booking platform for Chronicle Press
The Chronicle Press building is one of the finest restored spaces in Coleraine. This is a digital presence built to match it, and a booking platform built to keep it full.
A building this good deserves to be seen.
Chronicle Press is not just an office building. It is a beautifully restored landmark that offers something genuinely different to businesses on the north coast. A space with character, with history, and with the kind of environment that makes people want to come to work.
The website has one job: to communicate that. Not just to list the spaces and the prices, but to make someone feel what it would be like to have their business here. To walk in every morning, close the door on a private office, and get to work. Or pull up a hot desk and be surrounded by other people building something.
A beautifully crafted digital presence, built to fill every desk, every office, and every room.
Built to reflect the building. Built to fill it.
Chronicle Press deserves a website that stops people. Not a template, not a brochure site. A custom-designed, beautifully crafted digital space that reflects the quality and character of the building itself.
Every element is designed to convert. A prospective tenant browsing office options should feel the pull of the space before they have ever visited. A freelancer looking for a hot desk should be able to sign up without a single phone call. A business needing a meeting room for the afternoon should find it, book it, and pay for it in under two minutes.
- →Custom design that reflects the heritage and premium feel of the building
- →Private offices, always showcased, ready to list availability the moment a space opens up
- →Hot desking, day rate and monthly subscription, sign-up handled through the site
- →Meeting rooms and event spaces, fully bookable, publicly visible, clearly presented
- →Full SEO architecture, structured so Chronicle Press ranks when people search for office space in Coleraine
- →AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation), built so AI tools like Google's AI Overviews return Chronicle Press by name
- →Fast, mobile-first, accessible on every device
Four rooms. Every kind of meeting.
The meeting and event spaces at Chronicle Press are a serious asset — not just for tenants, but as a standalone revenue stream. The goal is to keep them busy. Tenants have allowances built in, and beyond that, every space is open to the public to hire. A fully booked calendar is part of what makes Chronicle Press feel like the most alive and productive place to work in Coleraine.
Board Room
The go-to for client meetings, team sessions, and focused working days.
Edit Suite
The most private space in the building. Ideal for concentrated work and one-to-ones.
The Studio
A flexible space for workshops, presentations, and small events.
The Auditorium
The flagship space. A genuine event venue in the heart of Coleraine.
The software Chronicle Press deserves.
There are off-the-shelf coworking platforms. They are fine, until your model does not quite fit their rules and you find yourself working around the software instead of the other way round. Chronicle Press has a specific set of entitlements, allowances, and booking logic. A custom platform means all of that works exactly as it should, with no workarounds, no rules written by someone else, and no ceiling on what it can do as the business grows.
This is a full-stack booking platform built exclusively for Chronicle Press. Every tenant has a login. Every booking is tracked. Every allowance is managed automatically. The super admin has complete visibility and control over everything.
Tenant accounts
Every office tenant gets a company login. They can view their remaining weekly hours, their annual half-day allowance, make bookings, and pay for extra time, all from their own dashboard.
Entitlement engine
Two separate allowance pools tracked automatically. Two hours per week per company for general meeting room use, resetting weekly. Four half days per year in The Studio and The Auditorium, on a separate annual cycle. When an allowance runs out, tenants can pay for additional time without friction.
Hot desk management
Day rate and monthly subscriptions, sign-up and billing handled entirely through the platform.
Public booking
Anyone can find an available space, book it, and pay without needing an account. First come, first served alongside tenant bookings, keeping the calendar full and the revenue flowing.
Payments
A single Stripe integration handles everything. Public bookings, subscriptions, tenant overage. All automatic.
Super admin dashboard
Full control over the whole operation. Manage tenant accounts, view and override any booking, monitor space utilisation, track revenue by room and by period, and manage the public availability calendar. Everything needed to run Chronicle Press without a spreadsheet in sight.
What the project costs.
As a Coleraine Connect member bringing both deliverables together in one engagement, I have applied a discount to the custom platform that reflects the scale of the project.
Once live, a small monthly retainer covers hosting, support and ongoing SEO. It is scaled to the support and server usage the platform actually needs, confirmed once the build is complete, and kept deliberately modest. Payment on the project above is 50% on start, 50% on completion.
A phased build, delivered in order.
Twelve weeks from kick-off to launch, structured so each phase builds on the last — design first, platform second, everything tested before it goes live.
Discovery and planning
Confirm all space details, agree design direction, map the full booking logic and database architecture.
Website design and build
Custom design, content, SEO and AEO architecture, responsive across all devices.
Booking platform build
Tenant accounts, entitlement engine, booking calendar, payment integration, admin dashboard.
Integration and testing
Site and platform connected, full testing across all user types: tenant, hot desker, public, and admin.
Launch
Go live, handover, team walkthrough on the admin dashboard.
The Chronicle Press story deserves to be told properly online.
If this proposal looks right, the next step is a short call to confirm a few final details and agree a start date.
Get in touch→hi@johnnylowe.design · Lowe Creative, Coleraine