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Website Design & Development
Fast, accessible, genuinely editable websites — designed and built by the same team.
The business problem
The current site is slow, hard to update, and does not reflect the business as it is today. Simple changes require a developer, the mobile experience was an afterthought, and search traffic has been flat for two years.
A website is the only marketing asset that is also an operational system. It has to convince a stranger and be maintainable by your team on a Tuesday afternoon.
The GDS approach
Ship something solid.
We design and build in the same room, which removes the usual translation losses. The front end is hand-built rather than assembled from a page builder, so pages load quickly and stay accessible. Content models are shaped around how your team actually writes, so publishing does not require a ticket.
Capabilities
What this covers
- Website strategy and content architecture
- Editorial and interface design
- WordPress theme and block development
- Headless and custom front-end builds
- Performance and Core Web Vitals engineering
- Accessibility, SEO and analytics implementation
Typical deliverables
What you end up holding
- Sitemap, content model and page templates
- Designed pages across all breakpoints
- Production website with an editor-friendly admin
- Performance, accessibility and SEO configuration
- Analytics and conversion tracking
- Training session and written handover
Process
How the work runs
- Discover Goals, audience, audit and content inventory
- Define Sitemap, content model and technical approach
- Design Templates and components
- Develop Build, integrate and review on staging
- Launch Migration, QA, redirects and go-live
- Grow Measurement and ongoing improvement
— Related work
— Next action
Need website design & development?
Tell us what is happening now and what you need to be true in six months. We will come back with a route, a rough shape and an honest view of the cost.
- Based in
- Minnesota, USA
- Typical reply
- Within one business day