Web design Utah businesses can use

Start with who will update the site. WordPress suits a team that publishes often and wants to edit most pages itself. It also offers a large choice of plugins, though someone will need to keep them updated for security. A custom design gives you more room to shape the site around a specific brand, audience or set of content.

For a straightforward site with a tight brief, an adapted template can reduce design effort. Use your real content when adapting it: the page still has to accommodate your service descriptions and images. Hosted builders such as Wix, Squarespace and Webflow suit a small site you want to run alone, but give you less control over code and speed. Moving away later can also mean rebuilding.

We recommend WordPress or a custom Next.js build after learning how your team works. Tell us what you expect to publish, who will make changes and how much editing control they need; that gives us a practical basis for the choice.

For a business open to the public, accessibility belongs in the brief. US Department of Justice guidance says Title III of the ADA covers goods and services offered on the web, and points to WCAG as helpful guidance. We agree an accessibility target with you, then design the sitemap, wireframes and desktop and mobile pages with that target in the project scope. WCAG has A, AA and AAA levels; agreeing the target gives your team and ours a basis for reviewing the designs.

Bring what you have, and identify who can supply the rest.

• Rank the services or products you want the site to feature.
• Choose a goal, such as quote requests, and name the person who handles them.
• Share sites you like and dislike, with a short reason for each.
• Gather photos of your team, premises and finished work.
• Find account logins or the person who holds them, including for your domain and email.
• Collect case studies, permitted client logos, testimonials and credentials in one folder.

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  Leaving content until the end

  Use real headings and paragraphs in the design, because their length affects the layout.

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  Choosing the platform too early

  First decide who will update the site and how often, then choose an editor that suits them.

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  Putting accounts in someone else’s name

  Keep the domain and hosting accounts in your business’s name and grant access to your provider.

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  Reviewing only on a large screen

  Check every page on a phone before you approve it.