AWARD WINNING WEB DESIGN COMPANY
Most businesses that come to us for web design in London are not starting from nothing. They have a site, it worked well enough for a while but it is not bringing in the enquiries it used to and they have started noticing competitors ranking above them for searches they should own. Some of them are embarrassed to send people to it.
We work with founders and marketing teams across London, the UK and internationally and the first thing we do is look at how the site is actually performing, where are people landing, what are they searching for, where do they drop off. Then we rebuild around that because most of the time the problem is not the design it is the structure underneath it and the content.
WEB DESIGN LONDON
What success looks like
Online success is never just the design, It’s how the site behaves once it’s live, its about whether people can find it. whether they do what you need them to do and is the experience sticky.
Problems we solve
Every website has its friction points, pages that load a little bit too slowly, content thats stale and no longer on brand, or simply tools that don’t talk to each other. We fix what’s blocking performance and make the whole thing feel smoother to use and easier to run.
We optimise
Launch is where the real work starts we watch how people use it, what they search for, where they drop off. The best performing sites has someone behind the curtain optimising it each month.
A selection of web design projects
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 AgencyCUSTOM WEBSITE DESIGN
What We Build
As a digital marketing agency we build websites that work really hard, whether is visible in the search engines or design to covert or simple portray your brands story. Most of our projects fit into a few groups:
Marketing websites: For those clients who need results, sites that have clean user journeys and architecture and are able to turn interest into leads.
E-commerce platforms: For when you need a store whose products easy to find, the basket and checkout process feel intuitive and customers come back for more.
Multilingual & global sites: For the larger brands who are working across regions, one website multiple languages and localised content.
Customer portals & dashboards: These are Sites or platform that act as part of your business, its where your customers can log in, check progress, update details and get what they need without chasing support.
Headless WordPress setups: For the most demanding of clients that need the ultimate in security, control and speed. We separate the CMS from the front end to allow for more bespoke workflows.
WITH ONGOING SUPPORT
How we deliver results
Discovery first: We take time to really understand how the business runs before touching any design, we ask questions so understand what you’re aiming for, who you’re trying to reach what the business KPIs are
Design with purpose: To meet the KPIs, this is where every layout, every flow and every bit of content has to help answer what your users do and what they came for.
Build for scale: Whether it’s WordPress or another CMS we have experience in creating websites that handle high traffic loads and enable your content team to expand the content base.
Optimise continually: Once its live, this is when we get to see how people move through the site, where they hesitate and what they ignore, after all if we can spot it we can fix it.
Support that sticks: We offer support and maintenance retainers to handle content updates, SEO optimisation and conversation rate optimisation.
WE ARE THE RIGHT WEB DESIGN AGENCY
Our Point of View
At our leading web design agency we believe a website should do three jobs at once. It should bring people in, it should convince them to stay and it should make it easy for them to act. That means clear language, real proof that you deliver and no friction between someone arriving and someone converting.
But it also means the site keeps working after launch, tracking behaviour and feeding your team the insights they need to keep improving it because the best performing websites have someone behind the curtain optimising them every month.
FAQs
Questions we’re asked before we are hired
Do you work with existing websites?
Yes and honestly that is most of our work. A lot of clients come to us with an existing website that was fine a few years back but it has fallen behind on seo performance or the website content has gone stale and nobody has touched it since launch. We look at the analytics first, figure out what the web pages are actually doing and then decide whether to rebuild the whole thing or reshape what is already there so it starts performing again.
What does your web design process look like?
We start with your business goals not a template. Our web design process runs through discovery where we dig into your target audience and how they search, then our design team will create wireframes so you can see the structure before anything visual happens. From there it moves into design and development together because we do not separate those two things, the people designing it are the same people thinking about how it gets built.
Do you use off the shelf templates?
No, Every site we build is a bespoke website design because off the shelf templates force you into someone else’s structure and that structure almost never matches how your customers actually think or search. Our web designers build custom functionality around your specific business needs so the user interface works the way your audience expects it to and your content team can manage it without calling us every week.
Can you help with SEO and marketing?
Yes we handle digital marketing services alongside the build because there is no point having a beautiful site that nobody finds. We structure seo optimised websites from the ground up using seo best practices in the architecture and the content, and we run google ads and ppc campaign management for clients who need traffic while the organic rankings build. We also support content strategy so what you publish actually helps you show up in search engine results.
How long does a new website take?
This depends what we are building and how quickly you can get us content and sign offs. A new website with maybe fifteen to twenty pages and a straightforward cms systems setup, that is usually six to eight weeks from kickoff. When it is fully custom websites with integrations or a big content migration then it is more like three or four months because the website design team needs time to get the editing experience right and rushing that bit always causes problems later.
Do you only work with London clients?
No. We are a london based team with offices in London and Surrey but we work with businesses right across the UK and internationally. Most of our web design services start with a video call anyway so location has not been an issue for years. What matters more is whether the project is right for us and whether our london web designers can genuinely add something your current team cannot do on their own.
Do you handle website hosting too?
Yes we sort website hosting as part of the build for most clients because it makes life easier when one team is responsible for the end to end process. We use managed hosting that is configured for security and we monitor it so you are not the one finding out something has gone down. If you already have hosting sorted we are happy to work with that too, we are not precious about it.
Can you redesign our existing site?
Yes and honestly as a web agency that is most of the work we do as they majority of our clients come to us with an existing site that was built a few years ago and it no longer performing for them, and nobody has really looked at the analytics or the content since it went live. We go through it, let data drive the decisions to work out what is worth keeping and what needs rethinking in your digital presence.
Do you build corporate websites?
Yes we have built corporate website projects for businesses from twenty people to several thousand. The difference is usually the number of people who need to sign off and the volume of content that needs proper structure so our project managers get involved early to keep the website development moving. We also find that professional websites at that level need tighter governance in the CMS so your content team can publish without breaking the design system or the brand guidelines.
What makes you different as an agency?
We are a digital agency where the people in the strategy conversation are the same ones doing the build, there are no layers between the thinking and the work. That means creative solutions come from people who understand what is technically possible. We have been doing this for over twenty five years across digital services with integration and the thing that has not changed is that we still care more about whether it works than whether it wins an award.
Do you offer social media services?
Yes we run social media marketing and social media management for clients who want it connected to the website and the broader digital strategy because the two should feed each other. We handle paid and organic and we tie it back into what the site is doing so you can actually see what is driving traffic and what is not. If you need someone posting five times a day across every platform that is probably not us, we work best when social is part of something bigger.
Do you follow the latest trends?
We keep ourselves well informed on industry trends as we believe that both Technical excellence and creative excellence are required to stand out in today’s marketplace. Our creative design team focuses on building high performing websites with a strong visual identity that still convert many years later. We would rather build you a successful websites that compounds over time than something that matched the brief.
