Web Design

Outstanding web design is the foundation of a powerful online presence. At Volume Marketing, we blend eye-catching visuals, intuitive user experiences, and SEO optimisation to craft websites that deliver measurable success for businesses in Cheshire, Liverpool, Manchester, and beyond.

At Volume Marketing, we specialise in creating bespoke web design solutions tailored to the unique needs of businesses in Cheshire, Liverpool, Manchester, and beyond. Whether you’re a local start-up or an established enterprise, we understand that your website is more than just a digital presence—it’s a powerful tool to achieve your business goals. By combining creativity, strategy, and the latest design trends, we ensure your site delivers seamless user experiences while driving measurable results.

Our designs are built with your audience in mind, striking the perfect balance between aesthetics and functionality. From captivating visuals to intuitive navigation, every element of your website is carefully crafted to engage users, reflect your brand’s identity, and encourage conversions. We take pride in helping businesses stand out in the competitive digital landscape by delivering websites that not only look great but also perform exceptionally well.

What is Web Design?

Web design is the creative and strategic process of crafting a website’s visual and structural framework before moving into development. Unlike web development, which focuses on coding and functionality, web design centres on aesthetics, user flow, and ensuring the design aligns with your business goals. This crucial planning phase sets the foundation for an engaging, user-friendly website that drives results.

Imagine web design as the blueprint for constructing a building. Just as architects draft detailed plans, a web design ensures every element of your site serves a purpose, enhancing both appearance and usability. A professionally designed website builds trust, boosts engagement, and creates opportunities for growth by supporting your marketing goals, from lead generation to brand awareness. Investing in web design is investing in the long-term success of your online presence.

Why is web design important?

In today’s digital-first world, your website often serves as the first point of contact between your business and potential customers. With visitor expectations at an all-time high, an effective and engaging web design is no longer optional—it’s essential. A poorly designed website risks losing customers to competitors in mere seconds. That’s why great web design isn’t just about looking good; it’s about creating a seamless, intuitive experience that keeps users engaged and drives meaningful interactions.

An effective web design focuses on three key pillars:

User Experience (UX)

User experience (UX) is at the heart of successful web design. By prioritising functionality and intuitive navigation, UX design ensures visitors can easily find what they’re looking for without frustration. Paired with user interface (UI) design, which fine-tunes the visual elements of your site, this approach creates a smooth and enjoyable journey for your users. The result? Happier visitors who are more likely to return and convert into loyal customers.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

A well-designed website should not only appeal to users but also perform well in search engine rankings. By embedding SEO best practices—from strategic keyword placement to mobile-friendly design—your site will be primed for success from the start. An SEO-driven design doesn’t just attract more visitors; it ensures they stay longer, improving your online visibility and supporting your overall digital marketing efforts.

Brand Integrity

Your website is the digital face of your business. Consistent branding throughout your web design reinforces trust and credibility, ensuring your business stands out in a crowded market. From colour schemes and typography to tone of voice and imagery, every element of your website should echo your brand’s identity. A cohesive and professional design leaves a lasting impression, building loyalty among your audience.

By focusing on these three essential factors, your website becomes more than just a platform—it becomes a powerful marketing tool that enhances engagement, strengthens your brand, and achieves your business goals.

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Web Design Process

Our web design process

Discovery Meeting

We begin every project with a discovery meeting that brings together our expert web design team and key stakeholders from your business. During this collaborative session, we dive deep into your goals, challenges, and vision for the website. We also address pain points you’ve faced with past websites or CMS systems. This phase is pivotal in ensuring we’re aligned on strategy and objectives. For consumer-facing projects or websites targeting mobile-first audiences, we may recommend additional UX/UI planning to create an optimised experience across all devices. This meeting lays the groundwork for a tailored and results-driven design process.

Comprehensive Sitemap

Once the discovery meeting is complete, we develop a detailed sitemap that outlines the structure of your website. Using advanced software tools, we map out all pages and their relationships in a clear, hierarchical format. This document ensures your website is well-organised, intuitive, and purposeful. It also serves as a reference point throughout the project, ensuring consistency and clarity as the design evolves. After your approval, we move to the next step—wireframing—to translate this structure into visual layouts.

Wireframing & Visualisation

The wireframing stage is where we begin to bring the sitemap to life. By creating low-fidelity mockups of each page, we provide a skeleton outline of your website’s structure and layout. This step ensures all critical elements are accounted for before committing to the final design. Wireframes also give you a clear understanding of how your website will function, laying the foundation for a seamless user experience.

Collaborative Design Refinement

Our process is designed to keep you involved every step of the way. After the wireframing stage, we develop branded design concepts that incorporate your logo, colours, fonts, and imagery. This is where your website truly begins to take shape. We typically provide several homepage design options to choose from, ensuring the final design reflects your brand and goals. Once the homepage design is finalised, we apply the approved concepts to other unique pages, maintaining consistency across the site.

By following a structured and collaborative process, we ensure that every detail of your website is aligned with your vision and business objectives, creating a final product that’s both visually stunning and strategically effective.

Wireframing & design concepts

What is Wireframing?

Wireframing is an essential step in the web design process that allows us to create a skeletal layout of each page without committing time to detailed design work. Think of it as a visual blueprint that helps us map out the structure, functionality, and flow of your website. By using this low-fidelity approach, we can focus on key elements like navigation, content placement, and user interaction. This collaborative process ensures alignment between our vision and your expectations, laying a solid foundation for the design phase.

During wireframing, we work closely with you to refine the layout, ensuring that all necessary elements are accounted for. This phase helps identify potential issues early on and streamlines the design and development process. The wireframes serve as a reference point throughout the project, providing clarity and consistency as your website evolves.

Website Design Concepts

Once the wireframes are finalised, we transition to creating design concepts that bring your brand to life. Using your established branding—including colours, fonts, and imagery—we develop several homepage concepts that showcase different creative directions. This stage is where your website starts to take shape visually, and it’s often one of the most exciting parts of the process for our clients.

We present 2-3 polished design concepts, each tailored to your brand identity and goals. After reviewing the options, we refine the chosen concept based on your feedback to ensure it perfectly captures your vision. Once the homepage design is approved, we extend the visual language to other unique pages, maintaining a cohesive and professional look throughout your website.

Responsive Design Across Devices

In today’s mobile-first world, responsive design is non-negotiable. As part of the design concept phase, we create layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile views to ensure your website performs seamlessly across all devices. Using interactive tools like Figma, we provide prototypes that allow you to explore your website’s look and functionality across different screen sizes. This ensures your site will deliver a consistently great user experience, no matter how it’s accessed.

From wireframes to final designs, our process is designed to combine creativity and strategy, delivering a website that not only looks stunning but also meets your business objectives and engages your audience effectively.

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Supporting Businesses Across Liverpool, Cheshire, and Manchester

At Volume Marketing, we take pride in delivering exceptional web design services to businesses in Liverpool, Cheshire, and Manchester. Whether you’re a thriving enterprise in Liverpool’s bustling city centre, a local business tapping into Cheshire’s robust economy, or a brand expanding in Manchester’s dynamic market, our team of experts is here to support you at every stage of your digital journey.

Our web design approach combines creativity, technical expertise, and market insights to deliver websites that stand out in today’s competitive landscape. By prioritising user experience and implementing SEO-ready frameworks, we create websites that not only look stunning but also drive measurable results. Whether you’re seeking to enhance your online presence, increase customer engagement, or achieve higher conversion rates, we tailor our solutions to meet your specific needs and goals.

From Design to Development: Bringing Your Website to Life

Once the designs are approved, we seamlessly transition your project to our team of experienced WordPress developers. Using cutting-edge tools and techniques, we ensure that every element of the approved design is translated into a fully functional, responsive website. Our development process is grounded in precision and attention to detail, guaranteeing a final product that mirrors the designs perfectly while offering outstanding performance across devices.

Whether you need an ecommerce platform, a sleek corporate site, or a content-rich blog, we deliver robust solutions tailored to your goals. We believe in building websites that are as functional as they are beautiful, setting your business up for long-term online success.

Web Design FAQs

How long is the website design process?

The length of time it takes to design a website can vary depending on the complexity and size of the website together with the requirement for UX design. Another important factor is whether you have an established brand style that we can follow. However as a rule we would normally allow at least 4 weeks for this process.

Do you offer web design for new sections of an existing website?

Yes, we are happy to work on designs for existing websites and often do this for clients. This would involve working within your existing brand guidelines. When it comes to development we usually only work with WordPress websites, but for pure web design projects we can work on any type of website.

 

How do I ensure my website is mobile friendly?

It is important to consider how the website design will need to adapt to suit different devices such as mobiles. Not all desktop design elements will work for a mobile view and vice versa. We will identify the need for mobile specific design elements at an early stage in the design process.

How will I know I will like the website design?

Clients often worry about the design process as design is such a subjective experience, however we haven’t had someone who doesn’t like their web design yet! By starting with a broad mix of concepts and gradually narrowing it down in a systematic way, we are able to consistently deliver designs that our clients love.

Can you design a website that ranks well on Google?

Web design alone won’t make a website rank highly on search engines, but using keywords as a starting point at the very outset of the design process is the first step in the search engine process. Structuring the site so that your focus keywords take centre stage is the foundation of a search engine optimised website. 

It seems so complicated. How do I know where to start?

It can seem complicated, but we have been through this process with lots of different clients in a large variety of sectors and will guide your through it every step of the way. Although your product or service will have unique elements that we need to absorb, the underlying website design process is fundamentally the same for all websites.

Web Design Phases

Keyword Research

It is a good idea to start with looking at the keywords you would like to rank for.

Discovery

We will get together to discuss the objectives for the website and get under the skin of your business.

Wireframing

A key part of the design process is creating low fidelity page layouts that explore every aspect of the website content.

Design Concepts

We create 2 or 3 different design concepts, based on your brand guidelines, that will showcase how your new website could look.

Page Designs

The selected design concept is applied to each unique page and the individual design elements for the user interface are created.

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