Web design company in Cardiff

Start with your editing needs. WordPress suits a team that publishes often and wants to edit most of the site itself. Its choice of plugins gives you options for adding features, but someone needs to keep the site updated for security. Decide who will take that responsibility before choosing it.

A custom design fits when your brand, content or audience calls for something specific. An adapted template can work for a simple site with a tight brief, provided its layouts are reworked around your actual content. Either way, check that the pages leave room for your real headings, descriptions and images.

A hosted builder such as Wix, Squarespace or Webflow suits a small site you want to run alone. You give up some control over code and speed, and moving away later can mean rebuilding. We recommend WordPress or a custom Next.js site after learning how your team works and who needs to make changes.

If your business is a UK limited company, its website must show its registered number, registered office address, place of registration and limited-company status. We set up space for those details in the site, so you can check them before launch.

Services provided through a website must make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. Agree an accessibility target in the brief: we use that target to guide the page work and set up a clear heading structure. WCAG provides A, AA and AAA levels for its success criteria.

Bring what you already have, along with the decisions your team has yet to make.

• Your logo in SVG, AI or EPS, plus brand colours and fonts.
• A folder of case studies, permitted client logos, testimonials, certifications and memberships.
• Sites you like and dislike, with a short reason for each choice.
• Domain, hosting, email, analytics and Search Console logins, or the name of their holder.
• Photos of your team, premises and finished work.
• Your main goal, such as quote requests, and who handles each enquiry.

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  Leaving content until the end

  Use real headings and paragraphs in the design. Their length can change a layout that looked finished with placeholder text.

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  Reviewing only on a large screen

  Check every page on a phone before approving the design, including the parts a visitor needs to use.

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  Putting accounts in an agency's name

  Hold the domain and hosting accounts in your business's name and grant access to the people working on them.

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  Copying every old page

  Choose the pages your visitors need. A shorter site with clear service pages is easier to scan and keep current.