Motel crafts stunning, high-performing websites that drive revenue, sales, leads, and builds unforgettable brand awareness. If you’re looking to grow through an increased rate of website visitors and enquiries, improve sales online via your online store or expand your firms awareness and audience, your digital offering should be considered as part of your design strategy. Ditch missed marketing opportunities and lost sales. Let's build a website that crushes the competition.
From scale-up global brands to innovative startups, we deliver digital success through website design services and technical knowledge built and optimised for search engines.
We analyse your audience and competitors to create a distinctive site structure and navigation. We then draw up wireframes to agree on content and functionality.
We focus on the look and feel of your online presence with a custom website design based on your brand identity. Not an off the shelf template, instead a stunning bespoke website design specific to your business. Our web designer process includes a fully responsive design, meaning our website design is both desktop and mobile friendly, and in most cases a unique design for both mobile and desktop platforms respectively. We only design websites that are custom – meaning the only template you will find on our websites are custom design templates crafted and tailored to our clients business by our website design company.
Our website designers incorporate the use of your visual identity elements which often includes your logo, colour palettes, typography and fonts, graphics, design systems, images, photography, illustrations, icons, video content. We can work from brand guidelines, if you don't have a style guide we can also create this for you together with new design assets including imagery.
Combining all of these elements together along with your content enables us to create a custom site design tailored to your companies service offering, in order to differentiate your online presence and business against the competition.
We start building and codifying the visuals into custom code within the chosen builder approach and integrate a content management system (CMS) that's easy to use. Our CMS enables you to manage your own content and website copy on your site so you can keep it up to date and inline with your business, products and services for your target audience. We can also support you and your website post-live as your business evolves.
Our SEO website builders optimise the code for search engines using SEO tools and expertise. Each site we build is secure and comes with an ssl certificate. Once the website is built, tested and approved via a staging/test development environment our website builders will push the site to your chosen domain to go live.
Each site we build is setup for your visitors and customers to find your website via search engine optimisation (SEO) using professional SEO tools, we also set up Google Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns and social media campaigns using marketing tools to drive traffic to specific landing pages on your site in order to sell services or products.
Our website builder includes advanced features and premium features for marketing such as pages requiring a contact form, ecommerce tools for credit card payments to sell products via an online store to your customers, blogging tools for creating unlimited pages of professional content, drag and drop editors if required (including Wordpress drag and drop editor) to ensure you can rest easy knowing your online presence is both eye catching and professional, aligned with your brand and visitors, and will support your business with the next stages of growth and success.
Our website design and build services incorporate leading user experience strategies coupled with a responsive design for mobile friendly devices that converts customers. When we design websites every website project is unique, meaning the approach differs for each project across desktop and mobile devices, but we apply the following processes for an optimal UX:
Custom website design and bespoke website development services are unique and crafted around your brand. We can build the UX from the ground up specific to your target audiences and for your customers to engage with. You have complete control over the evolution of your website. By creating a custom website, you can ensure a unique website that's tailored to your business.
Off the shelf templates can be limiting and difficult to develop beyond the original template format, so important to consider for the longer term when you will need to evolve the design, functionality and content on your website. Off the shelf templates are also vulnerable to updates, or lack of updates, which means your website is forced to follow the path of its creator.
With custom design and build, you own everything we create and have complete control and flexibility over what you need to do and how the website needs to evolve. Our website design is also responsively custom – meaning the design is unique across desktop and mobile formats, respectively. Whilst the visual style will remain consistent the user experience and functionality will be optimised for the best experience across each platform type, sometimes meaning an altogether different design.
We craft custom Webflow sites, custom Wordpress sites and custom Umbraco sites, tailored to your business stage and goals:
Blast off your innovative startup or small business with a single-page masterpiece. Captivate your audience, showcase your value, and ignite conversions.
Supercharge your existing site. From clunky novices to digital dynamos, we'll unlock powerful features and skyrocket your enquiries.
Craft your digital crown jewel. Imagine intricate animations, cutting-edge functionality, and an experience that redefines your industry.
Don't wait. Let's build your online empire with a free consultation now.
We establish continually evolving, long-standing relationships.
Luca Massaro
CEO
WePlay
As a web design agency, our consultants create award-winning websites for businesses based on a solid brand strategy foundation and creative website design services that have transformed brands across the world such as Apax, WePlay and CyberClan. After spearheading leading client websites at top London agencies, our services experience brings a diverse range of businesses and clients, from startups to global giants and national leaders.
Shaping the next generation of creatives with inspirational world leading brand identities and strategy our website design consultants have guest lectured at Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire Universities, where we aim to inspire future brands and industry leaders.
Designing websites helps create your website overall look for users and its functionality. It involves preparing the elements for an online website from the structure to images, colours, fonts, or graphics.
Building websites turns your website design into code that makes your website function and perform in the way its original vision intended it to. The website builder creates website pages for website content to sit on, which is managed by a content management system (CMS).
Website CMS platforms come in three main flavours:
Free and customisable but requiring technical know-how, like WordPress and Joomla.
Powerful and feature-rich like Umbraco, better to suited to larger organisations and enterprises due to complexity and cost.
Hosted and easy to use with a monthly fee, perfect for beginners like Squarespace and Wix.
Seek advice or pick yours based on budget, tech skills, and desired control. Usability and future proofing how you manage your site is key.
SEO is like dressing up your website for a search engine party. You choose the right SEO keywords, craft engaging SEO content, and make it easy for everyone to navigate your website. The better you look, the higher you rank, the more guests (visitors) you get.
Need SEO? Depends on your goals. Want more online attention and traffic on your site? Then grab your SEO party outfit.
Imagine bidding for prime billboard space in a digital landscape. That's Google Pay-Per-Click (PPC). You pay each time someone clicks your ad displayed on Google search or elsewhere online. It's fast, targeted, and effective for driving website traffic and leads.
But do you need it? Depends. If quick results and laser-focused targeting are your thing, PPC could be your secret weapon. But if your budget is tight or your audience isn't search-focused, organic SEO might be a slower, more cost-effective route. Choose the tool that fits your marketing goals and budget.
A CMS is like your website builder command centre – it lets you manage, create, edit, and publish content on a website page without coding. Think static website page, blog posts, pictures, or even online stores.
Need a website builder? Depends on your goals. If you want a simple site with static page content, you're good to go. But for dynamic, frequently updated sites, a CMS saves you time and headaches. It's like having a handy assistant always there to keep your site fresh and fabulous.
Your domain is your website's address on the internet, like your home address is for your physical house. It's a unique name people type in to find you online. A custom domain is a website address specific to you, your business or your product/service/requirements.
An SSL certificate, on the other hand, is like a security padlock for your website. It encrypts communication between your site and visitors, protecting their information and showing them you care about their privacy. Think of it as building a trusting bridge between you and your guests, making them feel safe and secure when they visit your online home.