Custom WordPress & Showit Website Design

WEBSITE DESIGN & BRANDING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS & CREATIVE BUSINESS OWNERS

It’s time to create a brand and website that are perfectly tailored for your business. One that evokes emotion, encourages action, and elevates your business. A custom WordPress website design & brand can take you to the next level. Browse custom Showit sales page templates that are both beautiful and functional.

Logo Design

Logo design, cohesive illustrations & brand patterns, brand style guide and color palette.

Website Design

Choose from custom Showit or
WordPress website designs.

Full Brand Design

Logos, websites, print materials, brand strategy & more. Everything a compelling brand needs.

Marketing Collateral

Lead magnet design, custom pricing guides, business cards, Showit landing pages and other marketing pieces.

The Branding
Questionnaire

The conversation always starts with our brand questionnaire where we get to know you and your business, its history, the services and products you offer, what your ideal client looks like, and who your competitors are.

The questionnaire not only familiarizes us with your business, but also serves as a focusing activity for you. Clients often tell us they have greater clarity and feel more focused after completing our branding questionnaire.

We use your responses to start creating a mood for your brand.

The Mood Board

After you’ve completed your branding questionnaire, we’ll pull together a mood board to make sure we understand your ideal look and feel.

Don’t worry about putting together a Pinterest board for this – we generally like to find our own images and mix them with some of your images.

Logo Drafts

If you’re happy with the mood board, we’ll start working on a few logo concepts. We generally send around three to five ideas for you to choose from.

These are rough and normally pretty far from the final design. We have to start somewhere right? This round lets you see where we could go and it helps us narrow down a single direction to focus on.

Logo Refinements

Once you’ve chosen a direction, we’ll start working on a few revisions based on your feedback. Most likely we’ll go through two additional rounds of revisions before we finalize the layout and illustrations in the logo.

Once the layout is finalized, we’ll explore other font options and then finally color options.

Final Brand

Finally, we’ll bring your entire brand together with a few submarks (if they work for your brand), a color palette, a font palette and alternate versions of your logo.

The branding design process typically takes 4-6 weeks.

Website Kickoff

As we move on to the website, we’ll send over an outline to help you gather images and content in an organized manner. We know content gathering can be one of the toughest parts of putting together a website so we try to break it down into easy-to-digest parts.

We’ll also ask you to gather around 100 of your favorite images for us to use throughout your site and upload them to your gallery system, Dropbox or Google Drive.

The Homepage

Once we have your content, we’ll start working on the homepage design of your site.

We’ll input your brand elements + content into the homepage of your website and send it over for feedback.

Generally, once the homepage is done the rest of the site flows a bit faster, as the homepage determines the general look and feel of your design.

Website Pages

Once you’re happy with the homepage design, we’ll ask for the content for your About page and we’ll go through a similar process as we did for the homepage with up to two revisions per each page. Generally, once the homepage is done the rest of the site flows a bit faster, as the homepage determines the general look and feel of your design.

Depending on how quickly you send us content, this part of the process typically takes about a month.

Website Wrap Up

Once the pages on your site are built, we’ll move your design to your account for final testing. The actual launch will look a little different depending on your platform, but we’ll make sure all of your blog posts are migrated from your current site and that your site is thoroughly tested before your official launch.

While you can always come back to us for updates, we’ll send over videos to teach you how to update each section of your site. We’ll also add you to our private Facebook Community to make sure you stay up to date on all things web.

We’re grateful for these awards

Showit Designer of the Year

Website Template of the Year

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What People Are Saying

Don't just take our word for it.

“

We love our website SO much and have absolutely seen an increase in inquiries and bookings! ”

- Ryann Winn

ryannwinnphotography.com

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Our scope was huge, but somehow they were able to make all of the features we dreamed of possible.”

- Caitlin & Mandy

magicplaybook.com

FAQ

YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, WE HAVE ANSWERS

I'm on the fence about Branding. Should I do it?

If you’re thinking about a rebrand in the next year, we highly recommend starting there before tackling a new website design. Generally people want to revisit their website after a rebrand.

How long does branding typically take?

Brand design typically lasts between 4 and 6 weeks.

How long does website design typically take?

Semi-custom website projects usually last somewhere between 6 and 8 weeks, while custom projects generally take between 8-12 weeks.

Should I choose WordPress or Showit?

Good question! It ultimately depends on what kind of functionality you need in a website. Both platforms are relatively easy to use and provide lots of flexibility. WordPress, however, is generally a better fit for e-commerce businesses and membership sites.

Check out this article—Showit vs. WordPress/Elementor—for a more in-depth comparison.

What's the difference between custom and semi-custom web design?

The primary difference between semi-custom and custom website design is that semi-custom design starts with one of our pre-made website templates, which you can find in The Palm Shop.

Can you host my website?

Yes, if you choose to build your website on WordPress, we can host your website. You can, of course, find your own host, too.

If you choose Showit, Showit will host your website.

Will my website be optimized for Search Engines?

We build all of our websites with search engines in mind. We even teach on search engine optimization (SEO) at various conferences throughout the year.

SEO is not something that’s done once. You’ll need to continue optimizing your website after it’s built and as you develop content. This includes optimizing content as it’s created and building quality backlinks to your website.

All semi-custom and custom website design clients get access to our Inquiry System Course, which provides video tutorials on optimizing your website.

How do your payment plans work?

We typically break projects into four payments, but we can be flexible. We do, however, require a 25% payment to start the project, and the final payment to be made prior to delivering final services.

Can you recommend a copywriter?

We’ll provide guidance on copy throughout your project, but we’re always happy to recommend copywriters if you’re interested in hiring one. Just let us know, and we’ll send over a few names that we think might be a good fit for your project.

PS – Don’t see your question here? Feel free to ask us via that little chat icon in the lower right corner of your screen.

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