Step-by-Step Guides to Building and Growing Your Website
Website Design covers the visual and structural choices that shape how a site looks and feels — layout, colour and fonts, hero sections, calls to action, and accessibility.
None of this needs a design background. It mostly comes down to clarity and structure — what goes where, and what a visitor notices first — plus the more hands-on tasks: style guides, wireframes, and designing for mobile from the start.
Palette generators like Coolors and Adobe Color check whether colors look good together. They don’t check whether the text sitting on them is readable. Here’s how to run both checks properly, with real WCAG numbers.
“Add dark mode” is really three different technical decisions. Here’s how to pick the right one — pure CSS, plugin, or a hand-built toggle — and the classic-theme constraint most guides skip.
The hero section is the first thing every visitor sees, and its background image is usually what Google actually measures as your homepage’s Largest Contentful Paint. Here’s how to build one in WordPress that loads inside Google’s own 2.5-second good threshold and still reads clearly.
A footer isn’t an afterthought — it’s where visitors go when they’re deciding whether to trust your site or looking for contact details before buying. Here’s how to design one that actually works.
A clear, practical guide to choosing one icon set, keeping visual weight consistent, sizing icons correctly, and handling accessibility for icon-only buttons in WordPress.
Learn how to create a mobile-friendly WordPress website — from choosing a responsive theme and setting font sizes to optimising images and testing on real devices.
A style guide documents your colour palette, fonts, and button styles so every page on your site looks consistent. Here’s how to create one in an afternoon.
Wireframe every key page before touching WordPress — a rough box-and-label map that removes most of the guesswork, and a real 2026 change to Figma’s free tier worth knowing before you pick a tool.
How to set a WordPress featured image correctly, including the real 1200×630 industry-standard dimension platforms actually crop to, and how it differs from an in-content or hero image.
Learn how to make a WordPress website accessible with practical steps covering heading structure, colour contrast, image alt text, form labels, keyboard navigation, and mobile testing.