LONDON WEB DESIGN AGENCY
Ronins is an experienced web design agency based in central London who work with founders and marketing teams across the UK and internationally. We design and build a new website or rebuild the old one around your business goals and the target audience you need to reach, and being a full service agency the web designers, developers and search specialists are all involved from the first conversation of every website project.
OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Websites
Marketing sites, corporate sites and customer portals where the message is settled before the layout is. We have been building on wordpress for over a decade so most of our website design work ends up there, with Webflow or Sitefinity where the team or the scale needs something different.
E-commerce
Shopify is where we start when e-commerce is the whole business, and if you already run WordPress and want the editorial and search control we add WooCommerce to it so you are not running two platforms.
Search
We run seo and digital marketing alongside the build, keyword research first and then the structure and the content, written for real people because that is what the search engines and the assistants built on them end up quoting.
Award Winning Digital Marketing
NATIONAL EXTENSION COLLEGE
From clicks to enrolments
CLEARSTONE ENERGY
Powering trust in the UK’s low-carbon future
ORBUS SOFTWARE
A platform that keeps pace with enterprise ambition
OUR DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS
WordPress
We use it more than anything else, it’s reliable, flexible and easy for most teams to pick up. You can get content live quickly and make it attractive to the search engines easily too.
WordPress AgencyWebflow
Its great when you need to move quickly, its very visual and flexible to edit, you can deploy with easily and it comes with its own content delivery networks for faster page load times.
Webflow Development AgencySitefinity
This really shines for the larger organisations with lots of content and require strict content governance around it. It handles permissions, translations, workflows and API integrations to third party platform well.
Sitefinity Development CompanySitecore
For when you really need to scale, its great at personalisation, handling lots of users at once and supports global rollouts easily.
Shopify
Still the king when you want to sell online, it fully loaded with features tout of the box that you dont need to develop, for most clients we just apply their branding and give them some training and they are away.
Shopify Development AgencyWooCommerce
This is great when you already have a WordPress ecosystem and we can bolt this on. You get the familiar WordPress interface with the flexibility of Shopify.
WooCommerce AgencyWEB DESIGN SERVICES
What We Build
Marketing websites: Sites where the first page says what the business is and does, built on a clear user-friendly structure so buyers find what they came for and the enquiries that arrive are from people who think they already know you.
E-commerce platforms: Shopify or WooCommerce depending on what your ecosystem is, with product pages, checkout and sales tools that connect to the systems behind the business.
Multilingual and global sites: One site in several languages with localised content, for businesses with global clients and teams in more than one region
Customer portals and dashboards: Somewhere your users can log in, check progress and update their details without the need to drain your resources.
Headless WordPress: When the front end needs to be completely custom and high performance but the editors still want the WordPress they know.
Redesigns of an existing site: We start from the analytics and the search data and decide what is driving you the most value and restructure against your existing design system.
OUR WEB DESIGN PROCESS
How we deliver results
Wireframes before design: Our web design London team always start with your target audience, their motivations and their needs and wants, we create personas and user-journeys so when we wireframe it so you can see our vision.
You will always know where we are: As a web development agency we work in agile sprints with regular planning sessions, demos and a shared project management tool.
Your team can run it when we are done: We build the editing experience to be intuitive and easy to use so your team can publish so regular updates without needing us, and we document everything so you are not locked into a retainer.
Nothing goes live untested: We test internally throughout the build and then our external QA partners check it across real devices and browsers before it goes live..
Built on the right technology: Most sites go on WordPress or Webflow with a component based design library and fully documented so any developer can pick it up in the future.
Optimised once it is live: We watch what people search for and where they drop off and keep the site optimised to achieve your KPIs
Support when you need it: Our support team handles maintenance, security patches and performance monitoring, and ongoing support is a monthly retainer for some clients while others just call when something needs doing.
WEB DESIGN LONDON
Our Point of View
People increasingly hear about your business before they ever see your website.
Whether its someone deciding whether to hire you, back you or join you, they will often ask an assistant or read a summary in the search engines before they open a single page, and what they are told is the words taken from your website.
We believe that your website is now the source everything else is derived from, which means that the words on it matter more than they ever have.
We are increasingly telling our clients that the words now matter more than the design, and if the brand has not got its messaging clear then a new website is not the next thing to spend money on.
We do still put a lot of creativity into the design and the interface and there is a team dedicated to the site from your first call.
FAQs
Questions we’re asked before we are hired
How long does a new website take?
Over the years we have found that a site of fifteen to twenty pages on a CMS is usually six to eight weeks from kick off, and the slowest aspect is normally how quickly we get content and sign offs. Fully custom builds with third party integrations or a big content migration are closer to three or four months and we always agree a realistic launch date with you at the start.
Will it work on mobile?
Yes, and we design for mobile first because in 2018 we saw mobile visitors outstrip desktop visitors for the first time. Every page is design with a mobile friendly layout before the desktop version, and the code underneath is responsive and tested on real devices before anything goes live. This is key as Google no only crawls the mobile version of a site first for search.
Do you use off the shelf templates?
Yes we do but only where the budget will not stretch to a custom design. Templates are a sensible place to begin for a startups site and we still set up the logical structure around how your customers interact with the website, and we are open with you about what a custom design would give you that the template cannot.
Should we rebuild or fix what we have?
It depends, but usually we start with the business goals, search analytics and the search results data to see what pages are performing before we recommend a strategy. Most of the sites we are asked to rebuild were built a few years ago and we have extensive experience deciding what is worth keeping, and where the answer is a Web Design Surrey we say so.
What affects the cost of a website?
Its almost always the scope, and we run an open book so you can see which features are driving the most resource and cost. A five or six page site is a different conversation to a redesign with multilingual content or integrations into your existing systems,
Do you work with other agencies?
Yes, we do this regularly. Some clients already have designs from one of the web design agencies they work with and want us to build them, and others want us alongside their in house team on a specific role like UX or development. We are happy to lead the whole thing from strategy through to launch as well as we all want to see us gain real results for you,
Can you write the content?
Yes we can and we often do this when you need to align a brand style or need your site to consistently ranks in the search engine and AI engines too. We interview your team, read your existing materials and develop the content as part of the build by people and not generated by AI, which we believe is what Google and your customers both want to read.
What makes you different?
We are a digital agency run by founders who have built, raised and exited businesses and we now build ventures alongside other founders through our own venture studio. That gives us a deep understanding of what it is like to spend your own money on your company, so we treat your budget the way we treat ours.
Do you only work with London clients?
No, and like most agencies in london we work with businesses across the UK and internationally, most first calls are on video anyway and location has not been an issue for years and we are always in the room for the important meetings and conversations
Do you handle website hosting?
No, we do not host sites ourselves but we do help you set up your own hosting account and configure it for the site. This way you remain in total control over your most valuable assets, because the account is yours and it stays yours for the life of the site whoever is looking after it.
Do you work with startups?
Yes, we do and we often create websites for startups with a template if the budget is tight. We have also been known to join founders after the seed round through our venture studio, where the website is one part of getting the product in front of paying customers. When you are part of our studio we design everything right form the brand to the website and even your app to ensure your company looks established, trusted and able to compete in a competitive marketplace.
Can you run paid campaigns too?
Yes, we run Google Ads and paid campaigns for clients who need traffic while the organic rankings build. Our focus is on getting the ad account structure and content right first, and then we tie the campaigns back to what the site is doing so you can see what is driving the enquiries.
Businesses we’ve helped grow
