Website design
No website yet, or one that is not worth keeping? Start with a conversation. If you have a site that just needs improving, see website redesign.
Who it is for
Established businesses that need a website built properly, not another attempt at patching the old one.
You do not currently have a website that is fit to send to a prospect.
You are launching a new brand, service or division that needs its own presence.
The old site needs replacing entirely rather than modifying.
You want a professionally designed website built around how the business actually works, from the ground up.
Why businesses come to us
The current site was a quick fix that never got replaced.
Built in a hurry years ago, on a template that has never quite fitted the business.
The business wins work offline and the website adds nothing.
Referrals and reputation do the heavy lifting, and prospects who check the website are left unconvinced.
A new venture needs a proper website from day one.
A new company, a new service line or a division that has outgrown a page on the parent site.
Nobody is sure what the website should say.
The structure, the pages and the words are as much the job as the design. We start there.
What we do
Website design and build is one job here, not a hand-off between departments.
Structure and page planning
What pages the site needs, what each one has to say, and where an enquiry should come from.
Visual design
A custom design that reflects the business, its customers and the quality of the work, rather than a theme with your logo dropped in.
Responsive build
Designed for phones first, because that is where most prospects will find you, and built to load fast on real devices.
Enquiry journeys
Forms, phone, email and WhatsApp routes placed where a prospect is ready to use them, delivered to you reliably.
Technical SEO foundations
Clean structure, metadata, sitemaps and performance, so the site can be found for what the business does. No inflated promises about rankings.
Launch
Domain, hosting, testing and go-live handled properly, with ecommerce included only where the business genuinely sells online.
How it runs
Four steps from the first conversation to a live website. You deal directly with the person doing the work throughout.
We understand the business, the customer and what the website actually needs to accomplish.
We redesign the experience around clarity, credibility and conversion.
We turn the approved direction into a fast, responsive website.
Testing, migration and launch without the usual agency circus.
Built from scratch
Bespoke Registrations needed a first website that matched the stock they carry: current registrations, individual enquiries, sourcing, selling and valuations, on a site designed for buyers on their phones.
Private registration sales and sourcing
A new website for a private registration dealer: current stock, individual registration enquiries, sourcing, selling and valuations, designed for buyers on their phones.
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Projects start from £1,500. Every website is scoped individually based on the number of pages, the functionality it needs and how much content exists already, and you receive a fixed quote before any design starts. We do not sell packages.
It depends on scope, and on how quickly decisions and content come back. A focused site with a handful of pages moves quickly; a site with stock, bookings or a lot of content takes longer. We agree a realistic timeline with you before work begins and tell you early if something changes it.
We plan every page and write or shape the copy with you, working from what you tell us about the business, its customers and how it wins work. If you already have a copywriter or existing content, we build around that. Either way, nothing goes live that you have not read and approved.
Yes. Websites are built so they can be added to and changed as the business moves on. When a redesign is eventually needed, the structure and content are already in good order to start from.
Tell us about the business and what the website needs to do. If you have a current site, send the link; if you do not, that is fine too.
Paste your current website. We’ll tell you the three things we’d change first.
What you get
A short email with the three things we would change first, and whether we think we can help.
Or email hello@thewebsiteoffice.co.uk
Website projects from £1,500.
