Websites for the publishing industry & publishing houses

Your new website is built in the WordPress platform, and comes with the visual Bricks site builder. This content management system significantly lowers the learning curve for you and your team, so you can update the site content yourselves without needing a developer. Also, full documentation and handover training will be provided, giving you easy access to onboard new members of your team to the CMS.

Your new website will be designed specifically to meet you – and your customers – where you are. We incorporate your design and brand guidelines, colours and typography, and build on them to make your new website a digital experience that turns your visitors into paying customers. If you don’t have fixed brand guidelines yet, or you’re looking to evolve the brand, we can support with that too – and point out where you might have gaps (like colour contrast for example, which can prevent meeting accessibility guidelines). 

Your new site is built to be resilient, flexible and scalable, ensuring that it grows and scales with you as your business – and needs for your digital presence – grows. Your site is built on the flexible WordPress platform, and uses a modular, component-based framework. This means that functionality and designs can be easily extended and changed with less developer effort required. For you, this means less cost for future changes and growth, making your budget go further, and in some cases, you’ll be able to achieve what you want without developer involvement at all.

Your new website will integrate seamlessly with all of your platforms. We work with you closely from the offset to make sure nothing here is missed, including:

• Any CRM systems you use, like HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive.
• Any e-mail marketing platforms you use, like Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, and Sendgrid.
• Any content management systems you use for your titles and other data, like Biblio, knkMedia, ACUMEN Book and Consonance.
• Any wholesale or distribution platforms you might be using for your titles, like Gardners Books. 
• Any event management and booking platforms you use – allowing seamless booking and showing your events automatically on the site – like Eventbrite, Fienta and TicketTailor.
• Any other platforms you’re using – we’ll map these out in our kick-off workshops to get a deep understanding of your business, and what your new website needs to integrate with, so it’s considered from the start, and nothing is an afterthought.

On delivery of your new website, we’ll provide full documentation and handover training for your team. This gives your team full control and knowledge, so you can update the site content yourselves without needing a developer. The documentation gives you the ability to onboard new members of your team to the CMS beyond the initial handover training session.

A mobile-first design approach is followed throughout the design and build, ensuring it looks great on mobile, tablet and desktop. For your visitors, this means a consistent, better user experience – and for you, this means more visitors converting to paying customers.

We also conduct regular quality assurance and testing both throughout the build and on completion, ensuring your new website performs and works exactly as intended across browsers, devices and screen sizes.

Accessibility best practices are incorporated from the very beginning, and throughout the entirety of the project – design, build, and ongoing maintenance. Your new website will be fully compliant with the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility guidelines, and the European Accessibility Act. This means your new site is legally compliant, and crucially it will be accessible to more of your visitors, meaning more of them will become paying customers.

Security will be built in to your new website from the ground up as a core foundation. We follow industry leading security practices throughout the entire develpment an deployment process, including code level scanning and automated vulnerability scanning – ensuring that your digital presence is well protected against modern threats.

All of our hosting eenvironments and development practices align with Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 standards, ensuring robust data protection, access control, and information security management at every stage. In addition, your new site will be deployed behind a firewall and CDN (content delivery network), ensuring high peformance while simultaneously protecting it from DDoS attacks, bot traffic, web scraping (with exceptions for ‘good bots’ that we want to allow), and other malicious activity. 

We’ve been building digital solutions – including websites – for over a decade, so we’re confident that you’ll like what you see when we start working together – confident enough to put our money where our mouth is. If you aren’t completely satisfied with how things are going, you can invoke our money-back guarantee within 30 days of starting the project, no questions asked, so there’s no risk to you – or your hard-earned budget.

Although we conduct thorough quality assurance and testing both throughout the development of your new site and on completion, it also comes with a 3-month post-launch warranty, giving you complete peace of mind once it’s live. During that 3-month period, we monitor your website’s performance and stability closely to ensure it continues to function exactly as intended – and we’ll fix any bugs, technical issues, or unexpected behaviour covered under the original project scope quickly and at no additional cost.

Your new site includes three months post-launch of hosting, support and maintenance at no additional cost. During those three months, your website will be securely hosted on optimised infrastructure, with daily backups, uptime monitoring and performance checks to ensure reliability and speed.

Each month we dedicate time to continuous improvement – from regular UX and performance reviews through to refining content structures and improving conversion paths.

You’ll also benefit from ongoing technical support and proactive maintenance throughout, which includes regular plugin and dependency updates, performance and UX optimisation, and security patches and updates. When the 3-month period ends, you’ll automatically shift on to our monthly rolling hosting, support and maintenance plan, meaning no disruption to your website.