WordPress website design free consultation
Our website coders and web designers at our expert WordPress website design company in London are big WordPress fans because WordPress is easy to use and easy to teach.
WordPress also allows us to use any design we like, so our designers can be free to follow the creative brief and create a completely unique design for our clients, and then our website coders integrate that seamlessly into WordPress for updateability.
We offer a free consultation if you are wondering if WordPress is right for your website. If you would like to book in with us, fill out our contact form, or you can send an email to team@topleftdesign.com or call the office on 020 7036 0560 – and please quote “Customised WordPress Website Design”.
WordPress web design has a lot to offer
When people look for WordPress website design companies in London, or anywhere else for that matter, more and more are also looking for people who really know their way around this and can use WordPress to it’s full potential. And because the availability and abundance of WordPress themes have made it so easy for many people to get an easy-to-update WordPress website with a more or less modern look and feel, WordPress has become the most widely used way to create websites
What started off as a platform for blogging became a platform for “CMS” or “Content Management System”. And, as far as CMSs go, WordPress ticks all the boxes in terms of development, design, user friendliness, and internet marketing and SEO performance.
So, the question is, to use a WordPress theme or not a WordPress theme?
We at Top Left Design are WordPress website design specialists. Many people know our company for our amazing unique designs, our social media and digital marketing know-how, and of course the service and approachability of our design team.
But what’s not so easy to see, because it’s hidden in the code, is that our bespoke customised websites are built with WordPress – from custom bespoke designs, and rarely from WordPress themes.
WordPress themes can be great – there are plenty, and they are pretty inexpensive to buy. However there are limitations with WordPress themes. Often they are “over-engineered”. And, even the theme sites can take a few days to put together properly, so it’s not necessarily as inexpensive as you might think.
By definition, “template” means others could be buying the same one. So, your design won’t be completely unique to your website.
And, probably most importantly, the result is that when you choose a WordPress theme, you need to adapt your message and content into the WordPress theme’s framework and layout, whereas with a bespoke WordPress website design we have the expertise and experience to create something specifically to show off your message and content in the best light possible.
And, WordPress themes (also called WordPress “templates”) are not all coded equally. Often, when you unpack the WordPress theme, you can find frustrating bugs or pages that just don’t quite look right after you have put in your own content and images. So, the ideal scenario, whether you feel ready or not, would be a bespoke WordPress web design. That way, you get all of the benefits of WordPress, without being limited by WordPress themes.
Some examples of websites we have built with customised bespoke designs, using WordPress:
To show you exactly what we mean, check out these WordPress website design examples below. They are not from themes, they are custom designed for each client, and carefully coded so that each page can be updated easily, by our clients, and without compromising the WordPress website designs.
Aspire Leadership: www.aspire-leadership.co.uk
PMA: www.thepma.com
Dr. Richard Clinics London: www.doctorrichardlondon.com
Starlight Barking: www.starlightbarking.co.uk
Snowbizz: www.snowbizz.co.uk
Farley: www.farley.co.uk
What’s involved in coding a WordPress website from scratch?
Our WordPress coders are responsible for taking our web designs and keeping them pixel perfect AND responsive. So, that happens first -but while they are doing that, they are also preparing the website code to be ultimately built in WordPress. So, this means planning for website coding in custom fields, “widgets” and plugins.
This is how we’re known to be a WordPress website design company.
Who will be responsible for keeping the WordPress website up to date?
It may be you or someone else in your team, but we want to make sure the WordPress website is as easy to update as it is to navigate (which means super easy!).
In the planning stages, our WordPress website designers and coders will look at the WordPress website designs and make note of all the boxes and images and areas which our clients are likely to need to update.
Each of these can be turned into a custom field.
It’s so much more than just “throwing it together”.
We are considering ultimately that human beings need to work with this WordPress website and update it without it being seen as a hassle or stress.
Typically, we can teach our clients how to update their WordPress websites in a 1-2 hour WordPress website training session. We also provide a written WordPress maintenance manual.
Your WordPress website should be easy to use – and flexible
If our clients can use WordPress easily to update their websites, they will be more motivated to do so regularly. The customised areas that are unique to their site are built into the system as “special areas” or “custom fields”. This means the WordPress website will remain up to date and “fresh” – content will be regularly added, as will images and blogs.
WordPress website usability is equally important from the “back end” as it is from the front end.
Free consultation
This is a lot to take in! So, while you may feel inspired, it may also be overwhelming. If you want your next website to be a true upgrade then we offer a free consultation meeting to help you scope it out. We are sure that a WordPres website, delivered by our TLD team, will be the ultimate combination of design, clarity, messaging, marketing, accessibility, and updatability.
This is the definition of what we at TLD proudly specialise in.
And we know we can deliver this via a new WordPress website.
If you are still looking for more specific answers of how a WordPress website could work for your business, feel free to book a free chat with us – we are nice and friendly! – you can fill out the form on our contact page, or email us at team@topleftdesign.com or call us at +44 (0)20 7036 0560 – and please quote “Customised WordPress Website Design”.