Website design and development
Each Vanilla Rain website is designed and built by the same studio in Newbury, West Berkshire, so the pages you approve are the pages that go live. Sites are built in WordPress, organised around what your visitors need to find, and handed over with editing access for the people who will keep them current.
Responsive layouts, landing pages, a content management system your team can use and attention to load times are all part of a standard build, not extras. What varies between projects is the scope: how many page templates, how much content, and what the site has to connect to.
Services
What Vanilla Rain can do for you
Each one handled in the same studio, to the same standard.
WordPress development
Custom WordPress websites built for speed and security, with an admin your team can use and full ownership of the site and its files handed over.
Website redesign
Existing websites redesigned without losing hard-won rankings, with content, URLs and redirects planned before launch so the new site performs from day one.
UI and UX design
Apps, platforms and websites designed around their users: clear journeys, intuitive interfaces and developer-ready designs that make products easy to use.
Online shop systems
Online shops planned and built around how you operate, with stock, product updates, orders and accounts connected so the shop runs smoothly every day.
SEO services
Technical fixes, content matched to real search demand and authority earned rather than bought, prioritised by the impact each will have on your rankings.
Brand identity design
A complete identity system: logo, typefaces, colour, photography style and layout rules, with guidelines that keep every future piece unmistakably yours.
Graphic design
Brochures, reports, exhibition stands, social templates and everyday marketing material, designed on brand and supplied with editable files you can reuse.
Video production
Brand, corporate and product films planned from a clear brief, shot and edited to a sensible budget and cut for every place the video will be seen.
Digital advertising
Search, social, display and video advertising planned around how your customers buy, managed weekly and reported on cost per enquiry, not impressions.
The work
What a website build covers
Structure before design
The pages, navigation and routes to an enquiry are mapped from the questions your customers ask. A clear structure makes the site easier to use and easier for search engines to read.
Every screen size
Layouts are designed for phones, tablets and desktops from the outset rather than squeezed down afterwards. You review working pages on a staging site, not static pictures.
Built in WordPress
WordPress gives your team a familiar editor and a wide pool of developers should you ever need one. Templates are set up so that new pages keep the design intact.
Landing pages and load times
Campaign landing pages use the site’s own templates, so visitors from ads and search land somewhere consistent. Images are sized correctly and plugins kept few to hold load times down.
Accessibility basics
Colour contrast, heading order, alt text, readable type sizes and keyboard navigation are checked during the build, so the site works for more of the people trying to use it.
Launch and handover
Redirects, analytics, Search Console and contact forms are tested at launch. Your team then gets its logins, a walk-through of the editor and the packaged source design files.
Relevant work
Web design and build work
Spode
Spode’s e-commerce website, designed from the interface up and built in WordPress, with thousands of supplier products, a price markup and B2B ordering.
NBA Basketball Africa League
Interface designs for the Basketball Africa League’s web and mobile platforms, produced for the NBA.
Website design and development
Selected work
A selection of recent projects. The full portfolio has more.
Where the work happens
Newbury, West Berkshire and further afield
If your business is in Newbury, Theale or Basingstoke, the opening workshop on structure and content can take place at your office, by arrangement. Design reviews and the build itself run remotely through a staging link anyone on your side can open. The same approach serves firms in Reading, Oxford and elsewhere in the UK, where sharing a postcode makes no difference to the result.
Questions
Common questions
What do we need to give you before the build starts?
Your logo files, any brand guidelines, the content you already have and a list of the pages you think you need. Gaps are normal. The structure work shows what is missing, and Vanilla Rain can write or edit copy if you would rather not do it yourselves.
Will we be able to update the site ourselves?
Yes. Templates are built so that adding a page, changing text or swapping an image does not break the layout. Whoever will be editing is shown how at handover, and the editable design files are packaged up for you to keep.
Our developer or IT supplier is staying. Can you work with them?
Yes. If your developer is looking after integrations or hosting, Vanilla Rain can provide the design and front end, and the split of responsibilities goes into the written scope so each side knows what it owns before work begins.
How is the price worked out?
From the scope: the number of page templates, the volume of content, any shop or booking features and what the site must connect to. That scope is written up and fixed in price, and you see both before committing to anything.
Plan the new site
Send a link to your current site, or a few lines about the business if there is no site yet, and list the three things the new one must do better. Or call Alistair on 07585 263824.
Design studio in Newbury, West Berkshire. Brand, design, visual production and digital marketing, handled by one studio from the first brief to the finished work.
Services
Studio
Contact
- ag@vanillarain.co.uk
- 07585 263824
- Newbury, West Berkshire
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