Website Design Services
Websites designed to look right, read clearly and turn visitors into calls, bookings and sales on every screen.
The short answer.
Website design decides how a site looks, reads and converts: mobile-first layouts, type and color that fit the brand, and calls to action a visitor can find without hunting for them. Lumorise designs each page around the one action it should drive, then hands the approved design to the build, which is covered on our Website Development page.
What we deliver.
A working dossier of the practice, every line is a thing we ship, not a thing we slide-deck.
Phone screens set the constraints first: what fits before a visitor scrolls, how large a tap target has to be, and how much text a thumb will realistically get through. Contact methods stay within reach from any page rather than only at the bottom, navigation collapses without hiding what people actually came for, and every layout is drawn at phone width before it is adapted up to tablet and desktop.
Type, color, spacing and imagery are chosen to match the business rather than a stock theme. Booking, quote and checkout steps are built in that same visual language instead of third-party widgets dropped into the page, and where a brand carries a heritage or a story, it runs through the imagery, naming and copy rather than sitting on an about page by itself.
A page should make the next step obvious, whether that step is a call, a booking or a quote request. Forms ask for what the work actually requires and route by the type of job, so an enquiry arrives complete enough to act on without a round of back and forth, and the same action repeats as a page gets longer instead of appearing once at the top.
Some work only convinces people once they can see it. Galleries, drag-to-compare before-and-after sliders and project detail pages are designed to carry real photography at a size worth looking at, so a visitor judges the quality for themselves instead of taking a claim on trust.
We decide what each page is for and in what order a visitor meets it, so nobody has to read the whole site to find their own answer. Where a business sells to more than one kind of customer, each audience gets its own track through the site instead of being blended into a single general services page that speaks to neither of them properly.
Color contrast, text size and the space around tappable elements are settled during design, not corrected after launch. A clear heading order lets the page be skimmed in sequence, and hover, focus and error states are drawn so someone navigating by keyboard gets the same information as everyone else.
How we work.
- Step 01.
Discovery and content inventory
Before anything is drawn, we take stock of what you already have: copy worth keeping, photography worth reusing and the pieces that are simply missing. We also agree on the single action each page should drive, a call, a booking or a form, because that decides the layout long before anything gets styled.
- Step 02.
Wireframes
Every template is laid out in grayscale first: heading order, where the proof sits, and where the call to action repeats as the page gets longer. Settling structure without color or photography keeps the conversation on whether a page works before it turns into a conversation about how it looks.
- Step 03.
Visual design
With the structure agreed, the brand goes on: type scale, color, spacing, buttons and imagery, drawn at phone width and again at desktop. You review real pages holding your own content rather than a moodboard, so what you approve is what the finished screen will look like.
- Step 04.
Design review
You go through the designs and mark what needs to change, and we revise from your notes. Feedback is collected against specific screens instead of scattered across messages, so nothing gets lost and everyone knows which version has been signed off.
- Step 05.
Handoff to the build
Approved designs move to the build with the detail a developer needs: spacing, text sizes, color values and how each element behaves at other screen widths. Anything interactive is handed over as described states, so the built page matches what you approved rather than drifting along the way.
Questions, answered.
What is the difference between website design and website development?
Design decides layout, look and flow: what belongs on each page, how it reads and what the visitor is meant to do next. Development builds that design into a working site, in custom code or on a CMS, whichever the project calls for. Most projects need both, and the design is approved before the build begins.
How long does website design take?
Design sits inside the overall project window rather than running as a separate engagement. A marketing site of 5 to 15 pages typically launches in 2 to 4 weeks, with discovery, wireframes, visual design and your review happening in the earlier part of that window so the build has something settled to work from.
Do I need a redesign or a new website?
If the structure and content still fit the business and only the look is dated, redesigning the existing pages is usually enough. If pages are missing, the navigation no longer matches what you sell, or every change fights the current site, rebuilding is the better long-term answer. Discovery is where that call gets made.
Will my website be designed for phones?
Yes. Phone layouts are drawn first and desktop follows, because that is how most visitors to a small business site arrive. In practice that means tap targets big enough for a thumb, text that stays readable without zooming, and a call or booking button reachable from anywhere on the page.
What do you need from me to start?
A clear sense of who the site is for and what you want it to do, plus whatever you already hold: your logo, photos of real work, current copy and a few sites whose look you respond to. If copy or photography is missing, we flag it during discovery so it does not stall the design.
What affects the cost of website design?
A few things drive it: how many page templates the design covers, whether each screen is drawn from scratch or adapts an established layout, how much copy and photography still has to be produced, and how many interactive pieces such as galleries, sliders or multi-step forms are involved. A scoping call gets you an accurate estimate.