Web design and development in Ipswich

WordPress suits a team that publishes often and wants to edit most of the site itself. Its choice of plugins gives you options for extending the site, while regular updates become part of keeping it secure. Before choosing it, identify who will publish changes and who will look after those updates.

A custom-coded site, such as one built in Next.js, suits a design that needs freedom from template limits. It also fits companies that want fast pages and tight security, and are comfortable asking a developer to make structural changes. That distinction is useful when deciding which changes your own team needs to make and which it is happy to hand over.

A separate content editor paired with a custom front end is another option for a site that needs speed and heavy editing. It gives the team an editor alongside the custom build, though there are more moving parts to host and maintain. We discuss how your team works before recommending WordPress or Next.js, so the choice reflects the work you expect to do after launch.

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, using the information you provide.

Accessibility needs a place in the brief. UK guidance says organisations providing services through a website must make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We agree an accessibility target with you and use it to guide the page and form designs; WCAG provides levels for specifying that target.

Gather these details so the brief can start with your goals and the material you already have.

• Your main goal, such as quote requests, and who handles each kind of enquiry.
• Vector logo files, brand colours and fonts, or a note that you need them created.
• Photos of your team, premises and finished work, with any photo shoot planned ahead.
• Case studies, testimonials and client logos you have permission to show, collected in a folder.
• Domain, hosting, email and analytics login details, or the name of the person who holds them.
• Examples of websites you like and dislike, with a sentence explaining each choice.