Web design company in Sydney, New South Wales

WordPress is worth considering when your team wants to edit content regularly. An editor for pages, news, projects and careers gives you a way to keep the site current without asking a developer for each content change. Think about who will make those updates and which parts of the site they need to manage.

A custom-coded site in Next.js suits a business that wants fast pages, tight security and a design without template limits. It is a good fit when you are happy for a developer to handle structural changes. A headless setup adds a separate content editor to a custom front end, giving a team room for heavy editing, though there are more parts to host and maintain.

Hosted builders such as Wix, Squarespace and Webflow suit small sites an owner wants to run alone. You give up some control over code and speed, and moving away later can mean rebuilding. We recommend an approach after learning how your team works and what it needs to edit.

Australian guidance on equal access to digital goods and services recommends WCAG 2.2 at a minimum of Level AA. We agree an accessibility target in your brief and set up the sitemap, wireframes and desktop and mobile page designs with that target in view. Your feedback helps refine those designs before the build. Agreeing the target early gives both teams a clear reference when reviewing the pages and their structure.

Gather these details to make the first discussion more useful.

• A goal for the site, such as quote requests or job applications, and who handles each enquiry.
• Vector logo files, brand colours and fonts, or a note that they still need creating.
• Sites you like and dislike, with a short reason for each.
• Login details for your domain, hosting, email and search tools, or the name of the account holder.
• Photos of your team, premises and finished work; book a photo shoot ahead if needed.
• A folder of case studies, permitted client logos, testimonials, certifications and memberships.

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  Leaving content until the end

  Use real headings and paragraphs in designs, since their length can change a layout.

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  Reviewing only on a large screen

  Check every page on a phone before approving the design.

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  Leaving search setup until launch

  Check page titles, the sitemap and development indexing settings before the site goes live.

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  Putting accounts in an agency’s name

  Hold the domain and hosting accounts in your business name and grant access to the people doing the work.