Web design
Why it isn't working
Maybe your site looks dated. Maybe a customer told you they couldn't find your phone number. Or maybe you just know it isn't bringing in work, and you'd rather not send people to it.
Owners in that spot usually get told they need a redesign. Sometimes that's true. More often, nobody ever decided what the business was going to say, so the site says a little of everything and none of it lands. A new look on top of that feels the same a year later.
So we start with what you want a stranger to understand in the first five seconds, and build everything around it.
What the work is
Custom web design
You get a site designed around your business, starting from a blank page. There's no theme underneath with your logo dropped in. Most of our work is website design for small businesses, where every page has to earn its place.
It reads in order. The first thing a visitor sees tells them they're in the right place. The next part tells them why you. By the bottom, calling you feels like the obvious next step, because every section earned the one below it.
Website redesign
If your current site brings in search traffic, a careless redesign can lose it in a weekend. Pages get renamed, old links break, and years of earned trust with Google disappear.
We map every old page to its new home before launch, so you keep what you've already earned and your customers' bookmarks still work.
WordPress, done properly
If you want to update your own pages, WordPress is usually the right fit. We build it with a custom theme and only the plugins it needs, so it stays fast on a phone and doesn't break every time something updates.
We skip page builders, because they leave you with a site the next developer can't easily work on. And if WordPress is wrong for you, we'll say so.
Photography and video
Stock photos tell a visitor you had nothing real to show them. Your people, your place and your work in progress tell them the opposite.
We plan the shots before anyone picks up a camera, so the main photo has room for a headline and every image has a job on the page.
A welcome video of fifteen to thirty seconds lets a stranger see your face and hear why they should call before they read a word. Every original file is yours.
What you own
Your domain, your hosting and your accounts are in your name from the first day. Nobody can hold your website hostage, and that includes us.
If we ever stop working together, you take everything with you, and there's never a fee to get it.
- Domain registered to you
- Hosting billed to you
- Analytics and Search Console in your account
- The code, with no license to buy back
How it goes
01
Decide
We sit down together and work out what your business stands for, who it's for, and the line it leads with. You leave able to say it in one breath.
02
Structure
We plan the pages, the order a visitor reads them in, and where every old link goes. You approve the plan before anything gets designed.
03
Build
We build it from a blank page: fast on a phone, easy to read, and clear to Google. You review it, and we make the changes with you.
04
Run it
After launch we handle updates, backups and security, and we notice a broken form before your customers do.
Questions people ask
- Do I need a new website?
- Often, no. If your site is reasonably fast and you own it, the problem is usually what it says, and that's a much cheaper fix. I'll tell you if that's your situation.
- Will a redesign hurt my search rankings?
- Not if it's planned. Rankings are tied to page addresses, so we redirect every page that moves before launch, then check it afterward.
- Do you use WordPress or something else?
- Both. WordPress when you need to publish and edit often. A custom build when your site is really an application. The choice comes from what you need it to do.
- Do I own the website when it's finished?
- Yes, all of it. The domain, hosting, accounts and code are in your name from day one, and there's never a fee to hand over what's already yours.
- Are you a web design company or a web development company?
- Both, and the split matters less than people think. The design decides what a visitor understands in the first five seconds. The website development decides whether the thing is fast, secure and still working in three years. A web design firm that can't do the second half hands you something that looks right and breaks quietly.
- How long does a build take?
- It depends on how much needs deciding first, and the deciding is usually the longer part. Once we understand your business, you get a real schedule instead of a guess.