Design and branding for your small business WordPress site.

There are no brandzillas here. Just a team of creatives that will get your site on-brand and looking great!

Design is one of the most contested areas of the website process and often leads to delays and overspending.

When designing a website, the most important consideration should be the person using the website, but this often goes out the window in favour of personal preferences.

Our platform is built from customised Gutenberg blocks designed to be on-brand for each client we work with.

To keep our platform affordable, even for the tightest of budgets, we don’t get drawn into endless rounds of design and revision.

You give us your brand guidelines, we deliver a site that is on brand.

Internal stakeholders always get hung up with design; it matters little to the end users*.

Have you ever heard of a business seeing a dip in enquiries because it elected to use Helvetica instead of Open Sans? No, you haven’t, and the reason for this is that the most effective design solution is simply a container for the copy.

Professional and appropriate are the only two words you must consider when designing*.

  • Does our site look professional?
  • Is the design of our site appropriate for our end users?

Too much emphasis on the design means too little consideration of the copy.

As we work with organisations for whom budget is a serious consideration, Webworthy sites are built from a library of pre-configured content blocks.

These blocks allow an almost infinite number of page templates to be built, but they don’t allow an infinite number of design revisions.

We do this because if you are already working on a tight budget, your focus should be on what your website says; it’s the words that convert people, not whether the call-to-action has a five- or eight-pixel margin set to it.

Do we design your site to focus on brand and on user engagement and conversions?

We certainly do, but we put far more emphasis on making the site simple to use (for you and your visitors), speed, and conversions.

Your site won’t be under-designed; it will align with your branding and marketing collateral.

The simple point here is that it won’t be over-designed.

Our library of content blocks can be customised to match your branding and other brand identity elements.

If you have unique brand elements, you can incorporate these into the block library so that when you add content, everything automatically looks like it should.

If everything you try to publish needs umpteen rounds of design revision before it goes live, it creates friction that prevents you from publishing new content.

Content is our main focus, as it will get you traffic and ultimately more members, donations, or subscribers.

Here’s what we’ll deliver in terms of design.

Remember that if you feel you need more design input in the project, we can provide this at an additional charge.

Logo

We will add your logo to the site. If you can provide this in the appropriate format, we will convert it to an SVG file so it’s ultra-fast to load and displays well.

Colour scheme

We’ll add your colour scheme to the site so everything is correct. All your brand colours will also be added to the site colour-pickers, so there is no messing around with HEX colour values; your team can only choose from approved colours. We will also check that your colours meet accessibility guidelines.

Fonts

If your fonts are Google or open source, we can load these into the site. If you use custom forms in your branding, we can look at creating @Fontface kits so your site can use them. Note that not all fonts are free to use on websites, so some compromise may be required if you use a font that requires a fee to use on your site.

Headers and footers

The header and footer of your site will be designed as part of the project so they are on-brand and look as you wish. We will advise on best-practice.

Blocks

Our block library will automatically inherit your brand colours, so all the blocks you use on the site will fit seamlessly with your branding.

If you need custom blocks or want to enhance the design of a certain block, we can let you know if we can do it as part of the project or if we will need extra time (often, simple tweaks to blocks are included).

Images

We have accounts with various stock libraries, so if you find the image, we can use it (free of charge) on your site. We’ll ask you to source the images as that saves time (and budget).

The following are considered as extras.

We can do any form of custom design work required, but we usually have to charge an extra fee for certain types of creative work.

Documents and PDF files

Project fees do not include designing any documents you might want to host on the site for downloads. If you need these, our branding team can design them for you and can provide a separate cost.

Infographics

If you have content that is better served in an infographic or diagram we’ll need to have a chat about the scope and provide a separate quote.

Video

We can create videos for your site but as an extra. We also have access to stock video, so if you can find something on one of our stock sites, we can add that to the site free of charge. Note that YouTube and Vimeo embeds are handled natively by WordPress, so you can embed any videos from these channels.

Custom block development

If you need a more complex block for a specific type of content, we can provide a cost to create this for you. It’s not complicated and takes minutes rather than hours (but more than a few minutes).

Photoshop work

This is charged extra if you need photo retouching, image combining, or any additional image processing work.

Multiple revisions

You can change your mind as much as you like, but revisions to previously approved design work are charged as an extra (that’s why it’s best to plan thoroughly).

We employ common sense in designing your site, and we ask that you do the same.

We’re not penny-pinchers, so if theres that final small tweak or changes here and there to the site as we work through, we don’t start charging extra.

Generally, the charge we quote you is what you pay, providing the project stays on track and we avoid too much of the inevitable scope creep.

If things are starting to go a little off-piste, we’ll simply let you know and we can work together to get a solution that works for everyone.

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