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Website Example: Property Development Firm

Overview of a web design project

Category

Brochure Website

Website portfolio example project. Property development company
Property developer logo
Client

Austen Estates

aestates.co.uk
“Edge have been a joy to work with, they are creative and bring a lots of brilliant ideas to the table. They delivered a superb website that was delivered on time and at a good cost. Very happy with Edge Studio’s services and will continue to work with them. Highly recommend.”
Lottie B. Client since 2021

Brief

Initially contact was made to rebrand the business but once a strong direction was created through a new logo and documentation the business extending the project to include a new website.

Background

Surrey based development firm specialise in land acquisition and new home development across the South East of England.
Company cover image for web design project

Research

Analysis of Competition

Before starting the website we needed an understanding of the industry the client was working within. We could identify how similar businesses marketed their website and attracted visitors. We soon realised that high volume organic searches were very achievable with a specific strategy. We also realised that there was an opportunity to use paid advertising through Google. Competitors who are already adverting in this space were spending large sums on a narrow range of keywords indicating that the conversion rate could be very high for this type of website/business.

Web Marketing Research

Advertising research within property development

Keyword Research

Keyword volume research

Branding

Branding

Working closely with the company’s marketing staff a brand direction was outlined. This then lead to creating a logo – the first step in creating a business identity. Initially a range of eight designs were offered. In this particular example it didn’t take long for a decision to be made and one further round of amendments lead to the final product; a range of high resolution JPG and PNG files along with a scalable vector (EPS) file.

Design (initial)

Web Design

A benefit of being involved with rebranding at the start of the project is that the website can be a part of the new direction and tied-in to match. To ensure both parties are happy with the website design direction, initially a smaller introductory section is used to show different concepts. In this example six ideas were presented to begin with and this led to two full homepages. Some clients like to see internal pages before development but in this case it wasn’t deemed necessary.

Initial Design Concept One

Property developer website design example

Design Two

Property developer website design example

Design Three

Property developer design example

Design Four

Property developer web design example

Design Five

Property developer website example

Design Six

Property development website

Homepage Design

Web Design

A benefit of being involved with rebranding at the start of the project is that the website can be a part of the new direction and tied-in to match. To ensure both parties are happy with the website design direction, initially a smaller introductory section is used to show different concepts. In this example six ideas were presented to begin with and this led to two full homepages. Some clients like to see internal pages before development but in this case it wasn’t deemed necessary.

Design Two

Full design concept for property developer

Full Design Concept One

Property development full page design concept

Hosting

Support & Maintenance

Most agencies rely on third-party hosting providers to manage and store the website files. This can be fine until an issue arises. If you have one point of contact for all your hosting needs then I can address any updates and maintenance as a priority when it’s needed. Who better to maintain the website than the person who built it. Almost all our clients host their website on one of my high-speed UK servers but it’s not compulsory. If you do decide to use my hosting service then you can access the following:

Regular Backups

Website backups

Security Certificate Installation

Security certificates for website protection

Updates & Fixes

Code updates

Virus & Hacking Protection

Website security protection

Performance

Loading Speed & Optimisation

A site that is built to perform in search rankings must be optimised to load quick enough for it not to be penalised. My primary goal as a web developer is to ensure that even the most content heavy pages load within 1.5 seconds over standard bandwidth. This is the single biggest factor to achieving a high Page Insight score from Google.

Google Page Insight

94/100

GT Metrix

92/100

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