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Based on our initial discussion, we create a storybrandingStorybranding is a process that outlines the narrative and messaging strategy for your brand, ensuring consistency across all platforms. document. This document is a detailed guide that outlines the narrative and messaging strategy for your brand. It includes key elements such as:

• Your brand’s mission
• Values
• Target audience
• Core messages

This way all branding efforts are aligned and consistent through the website design. We email this document to you and, using it, we then proceed to our research and drawing board to develop initial concepts and wireframes for your website. We then present our initial design to you, including the storybrandingStorybranding is a process that outlines the narrative and messaging strategy for your brand, ensuring consistency across all platforms. and a sketch of your website’s main page. We take you through different colour schemes, menu items, and layout of different sections, all based on what is best for your business and the storybrandingStorybranding is a process that outlines the narrative and messaging strategy for your brand, ensuring consistency across all platforms. document.

E-Commerce Integration

As with any website, our process starts with a deep understanding of your business needs and the audience you want to reach. We focus on creating a seamless shopping experience with features like easy navigation, intuitive cart functionality, and a smooth checkout process. By ensuring your online store is user-friendly and visually appealing, we help convert visitors into loyal customers.

Security and performance are paramount in our e-commerce development. We implement advanced security measures to protect customer data and prevent fraud. Our designs are optimized for handling high traffic and large databases, ensuring fast transaction processing and a reliable shopping experience. Additionally, we emphasize SEO, usability, and scalability, making sure your e-commerce site not only attracts visitors but also ranks well in search engines and grows with your business.

Why WordPress?

We like choice, so the CMS we use is WordPress. WordPress offers:

• An extensive plugin library with over 58,000 plugins
• Capabilities for e-commerce, SEO tools, social media integrations, and more

As an open-source platform, WordPress is constantly improved by a global community of developers, leading to regular updates, new features, and enhanced security. Whether starting with a small blog or planning a large corporate website, WordPress can scale with your business, supporting a wide range of content types and handling high traffic volumes efficiently. Additionally, WordPress easily integrates with various third-party services and applications, including payment gateways, marketing tools, and analytics platforms.

WordPress Market Dominance

WordPress dominates the market in 2024 with 62.7% usage of the CMS market. In comparison:

• Shopify: 6.4%
• Wix: 4.0%
• Squarespace: 3.0%
• Joomla: 2.4%
• Drupal: 1.4%

Shopify, Wix and Squarespace all get you tied up with their hosting. However, with WordPress you can choose where to buy the hosting from. You can also easily migrate your website to any other hosting company if there is a need in the future.

You also get a scalable and adaptable website that can evolve with your business. WordPress is an excellent choice for SEO, helping your website rank higher in search results.

Our Approach

Our approach to website design and development includes:

• Minimum use of plugins
• Small sized theme
• SEO-friendly design
• Mobile design
• A collaborative process

Minimum Use of Plugins

Using the minimum number of plugins makes sure that your website remains fast, secure, and easy to maintain. Each additional plugin can introduce potential security vulnerabilities, increase load times, and complicate the update process. This approach not only improves site performance but also reduces the need for constant updates hence reducing chances of plugin conflicts.

Small Sized Theme

We prefer to use small sized themes, e.g. Hello Elementor (18 kb), paired with Elementor Pro. This combination provides a lightweight foundation for your website, ensuring quick load times and optimal performance. A smaller theme size reduces the amount of code that browsers need to load, making your site faster and more responsive. This means better user engagement and improved search engine rankings, as faster websites tend to rank higher. The Hello Elementor theme is highly customizable, allowing us to create beautiful, functional websites without unnecessary bloat.

SEO-friendly Design

SEO-friendly design ensures your website ranks well in search engines, leading to more visibility and traffic. We optimize your site structure, content, and meta tags to make it easy for search engines to find and index your pages, boosting your online presence and attracting more customers.

Mobile Design

Mobile design is crucial as more people use their phones to browse the internet. We create responsive designs that look great on any device, ensuring a seamless user experience whether visitors are on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone. A mobile-friendly site keeps users engaged.

Collaborative Process

Our collaborative process involves you every step of the way. We start with a consultation to understand your goals. Then, we create wireframes and mockups, incorporating your feedback at each stage. This ensures the final design aligns with your vision and business objectives. Read more about Our Process here.