Simkin Associates needed a professional website for a new environmental consultancy based locally near Market Drayton. From an initial conversation and a coffee meeting, I took the client’s information, services and photography and turned them into a complete WordPress business website ready to represent the company to clients across the UK.
A website project that started at the play park.
This project actually began through a completely normal local conversation. Bo and I were taking our children to the same play park, got chatting, and the conversation eventually turned to work. I mentioned that I design websites for local businesses, while Bo explained that he was starting Simkin Associates as an environmental consultant.
It sounded like a brilliant business to be building and one I was interested in helping bring online. From there, we arranged to meet properly over a coffee so I could understand what he wanted the website to do, how he wanted the consultancy presented and what information needed to be included.
Turning the client’s expertise into a professional business website.
Bo already understood his consultancy, services and clients. He provided the business information, content and photography, giving me the raw material I needed to understand Simkin Associates and what the website needed to communicate.
My job was to take all of that and turn it into the finished website. I built the pages the business needed, worked the supplied information into a clear structure and developed the design around the direction we’d discussed over coffee. Bo didn’t need to arrive with a technical brief or work out how a website should be put together. He could concentrate on explaining his business while I handled the website.
Understand the business
We met over coffee and talked through the business, the website and what Bo wanted it to communicate.
Build around the content
Bo supplied his information and photography, and I used those materials to build out the pages and visual direction.
Hand over the website
The finished website gave Simkin Associates a professional online home that Bo could take forward and manage.
You know your business. I know websites. The best results happen when we bring the two together.
A professional WordPress website built around the business from day one.
Because Simkin Associates was a new business, this wasn’t about repairing an old website or forcing new ideas into an existing structure. We had the opportunity to build the site around what the company actually needed from the beginning.
The result is a professional WordPress website built around Simkin Associates, its services and the material supplied by the client, with a responsive design that works properly across desktop and mobile.
A one-off website build for a client who wanted the complete site created and then planned to manage it from there.
Build it properly, then put the client in control.
Not every business needs ongoing website work. In this case, Bo wanted me to take care of the complete website build and get Simkin Associates established online, with the intention of managing the site himself afterwards.
That’s the kind of project my Complete Business Website service is designed for. The client brings the knowledge of their business and I handle turning that into a professional website with the pages, structure and presentation it needs.
Business websites built around the people who actually run them.
Simkin Associates is a good example of how I approach business website design. I don’t expect a client to arrive knowing how their WordPress website should be structured or designed. They know their business, their customers and their services. I take that knowledge and turn it into a website that represents them professionally online.
Simkin Associates is based in Loggerheads, just outside Market Drayton, which makes this a particularly good example of the kind of local website project I enjoy working on. I’m based in Loggerheads too and work with businesses across Staffordshire and Shropshire, as well as clients throughout the UK. You can see more of my website design work or explore my website design services.
You know your business. I’ll help turn it into the website it deserves.
If you’re starting a business, replacing an old website or simply need someone to take your ideas and turn them into a professional site, tell me a little about what you’re working on. If you’re around Market Drayton, I’m also happy to meet locally for a coffee and talk it through.
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