Put your business’ best pixels forward with a client-winning website built on a proper hench SEO foundation. Created to convert, we’d love to design seriously good-looking and wonderfully strategic website for your businesss.
We don’t create websites that haven’t been optimised for search engines.
SEO is a long game – but every website needs their essential SEO checkboxes ticked.
We don’t think it makes any gosh-darn sense for businesses to pay twice for shoehorned SEO essentials.
Technical performance, ticked on launch day. Strategic content, ticked again. Engaging design, ticky-tick. Fiddly settings & integrations that you don’t want to deal with – very, very ticked too.
Our seriously sensible web design process is all about cutting the excess and spending your budget on what matters – website features & content that increase sales.
Whether you’ve got a thorough set of brand guidelines or need us to work from your social posts & PowerPoints, we create websites that are creatively on-brand.
Enquiries are great, but enquiries from people who know you’re the best are better – we optimise your user experience (UX) to guide your clients, not push them.
If your business had a step, we know you’d buy a ramp. Consider us your website ramp specialists; minimising barriers and maximising website accessibility.
Let’s get more clients onto your mailing list with optimised sign up forms and integrations with MailChimp, Flodesk, Mailerlite, Klaviyo & more.
A suite of blogging templates that make your content writing a little easier and way more creative – oh and make sure to ask us about our signature in-blog ads.
Say goodbye to bodging your podcast into your blog, and say howdy-do to a podcast website package so good, we took it to The Podcast Show.
Fold, rejig, resize, hide, show, move and maybe turn that square pic into a circle – we don’t just optimise for different screen sizes, we design.
Website strategy & architecture is our jam – we create custom content & fields using all the power of WordPress and the easy management of Elementor Pro.
We’ll record a pair of concise, custom training videos, and ad-hoc training whenever you want to know more or add more to your website.
Every website is designed, built, and managed by our small team in the centre of Bristol. No off-shoring, no third-parties, yes to occasional pop-ins-for-a-latte.
From occasional maintenance to full website management, we’re here to make sure your website keeps up with your growing business.
A local company found me via Google just three months after go live. They commissioned a project worth double what I’d paid Studio Cotton
We’re all about businesses and brands that just make the world a little bit nicer.
We want to help spread small moments of joy, and and we want to help spread waves of change. From flower farmers to tech start-ups – if it’s good and nice and kind, count us in.
Maybe most importantly, we’re here for small. For small independent businesses, for small teams, for small beginnings – and for your epic success.
We’ve *almost* made too many small business website to count, and we can’t wait to create just as many more.
We’re a small team who are possibly a little too enthusiastic, we work hard-as-heck at what we do, and we head home at 5:30.
Our new website and branding is something everybody in the company feels proud of; an invaluable tool to provide positive engagement with potential enterprise customers
Our business website packages start at around £7,500, with a typical project budget around £10,000 – £14,000.
We very occasionally take on smaller web design projects – especially for projects, causes, and products that catch our eye or add new skills to our team.
If you’d like to view our packages in full, or discuss working together, we’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch with our independent Bristolian website design company for a cheerful & very websitey chat.
We’ve collected common questions we’ve received over the years, but we also know that every project is different and you probably need to know something that we’ve not yet written up.
If you have any questions at all, no matter how small, we’d love to answer.
Yes, we don't lock anything down - anything we can edit or add, you can edit or add too.
But.
Whilst we very much encourage our clients to manage their website text and images, we highly recommend leaving the web design & technical jobs to us. Unlike an out-of-the-box website, your bespoke site has a tonne of custom-made moving parts, and sometimes what seems like a small edit can have pretty serious consequences, especially on tablets & phones.
That's also why our recommended maintenance plan (which you get for 12 months included your website package) comes with 20 minutes of human-time from our team each month - perfect for small web design additions, tweaks, and changes.
Imagery. We ask that all clients have a bank of professional-quality brand photography or illustrations for their website project, as, to put it bluntly, it's incredibly difficult to create a stunning website without professional imagery.
Branding-wise, we find that projects are most successful when we're provided with a comprehensive brand identity. However, we're often able to work our website magic from limited brand references. If you can provide your logo and some font and colour references (like a previous website or social media content), we can often adapt and expand your elements into a fully-fleshed out and beautiful website.
Whilst our website packages do not include copywriting as standard, we do provide text prompts throughout. For this reason, we prefer to be provided with website copy after at least the initial design phase.
Your website needs hosting, security, software licenses, and regular technical updates to remain online and available to your customers. We bundle 12 months of these costs into the initial website project price, and continue to offer these as a maintenance package of approx. £80+VAT per month (billed annually).
The best performing websites are those that receive regular, proactive additions and optimisations - especially when it comes to staying competitive with SEO.
With this in mind, we recommend clients budget somewhere from 1-4 days per month of website time, whether that's in-house or via a website management retainer. We're always happy to make recommendations and suggest some website-growing homework!
No.
We only build websites with a WordPress content management system and the Elementor visual page builder plugin. If you're glued to a non-WordPress platform, unfortunately it's very unlikely that we'd be able to work together.
We love to chat about all the benefits of WordPress for a growing brand, and we're pretty open about the drawbacks too. If you want to know more about our technologies, you can check out the full list or drop us a message/call if you'd like to hear more.
Our website design projects require a 50% deposit at the time of booking, and the full balance settled before a website goes online or within 6 months of the agreed project start date. Some of our clients choose to break down the final 50% over multiple payments, which is a-ok with us.
If you have a schedule in mind, e.g. splitting into equal monthly amounts, this can be discussed following an initial project consultation.
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