Shoebill Design Studio

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Websites that win the work

A site that wins the job when someone searches for you, and that you can change yourself.

Stone Care of Arizona homepage with the hero, navigation and Get a Free Quote link

Who this is for

Sound familiar?

No real web presence, or one that embarrasses you

  • 01

    You are winning work on referral and losing it the moment somebody searches for you

  • 02

    The site was built by someone who has since stopped answering email

  • 03

    You are paying for ads that land on a page nobody would buy from

  • 04

    You want to publish your own changes without opening a support ticket

I send people to our website and then apologise for it

What you get

What you get

  1. A designed and built site on a host you own, fast on a phone

  2. Forms that reach your CRM with the source of every lead attached

  3. Titles, descriptions, schema and canonicals on every page, done once, done right

  4. A content editor you can use, and a written handover you can hand to anyone

How it runs

How it runs

Investment
Scoped on the first call
Timeline
Fixed in the written scope before work starts
What moves the figure
  • How many distinct page types there are, not how many pages
  • Whether the words and photos exist yet, or we are producing them with you
  • What the forms have to connect to, and how many systems that touches
Audit what you haveA plain-language read on whether to keep it

We crawl the existing site and read what is actually there: the pages that rank, the ones nobody visits, the forms that work and the ones that quietly do not. You get a short written read on whether it is worth building on.

Structure and words firstThe page list and the copy, agreed

Before anything is designed we agree what pages exist, what each one is for, and what it says. Design that starts before the words are settled gets redone. This is the step that stops that.

Design and build togetherA live URL that improves every week

You see real pages on a real URL from early on and we make decisions on them, not on mockups. Type, colour and layout are set as a system so every page after the first is cheaper than the first.

Launch, measure, hand overThe site, the accounts, the editor, the walkthrough

We switch the domain with a rollback ready, confirm analytics and form delivery on the live site, then walk you through the editor on your own content. Everything is in your name before we call it done.

Related work

Where we have done it

Illustrative examples are marked in the study itself: invented to show the shape of an engagement, not real companies.

Home services

Stone Care of Arizona homepage with the hero, navigation and Get a Free Quote link

Stone Care of Arizona

An early-2000s website rebuilt as a modern layout built for conversion: a clear call to action on every page, and forms that carry the source of every lead into the CRM.

View case study

Healthcare

Concept homepage for Mountain View Orthopedics, an invented practice: mountain hero, Request an Appointment button and a specialty picker

Mountain View Orthopedics

Appointment requests tripled, and each one arrives already routed to the right specialty

View case study

Legal

Concept homepage for KC Personal Injury Law, an invented firm: roadside hero, Discuss Your Case button and three practice area tiles

KC Personal Injury Law

First call to a new case in four minutes instead of three and a half hours

View case study

Questions

Before you ask

What if we already have a designer?

Then we build what they design, and we make sure it survives contact with real content, real phones and real search engines. We are happy in that role. If you have no designer, we design it, and we tell you which we are doing before the scope is written.

Do we have to move hosts?

Not if the current host is sound. We will tell you plainly whether it is. When we do recommend a move it is for a reason we can name, usually speed or a host that has stopped being maintained, and the new account is yours from the start.

Can we make changes ourselves afterwards?

Yes. Every site we build has a content editor your team can use without touching code, and every piece of text on the page is a field in it. We walk you through it on your own content at handover, and the written guide stays with you.

Not sure which one you are?

That is normal. Most businesses are in two at once. One call and we will tell you where to start.