Website design

Designing a website is like building a house

There are many ways to go about it and endless design possibilities. Our team at Pathfind Media endeavors to find the best way to build your online "house" where Internet users can visit your content. By applying the most advanced UX design, hosting, and SEO principles, we aim to make your website your most valuable marketing asset.

visit our grandstand
Design

Streamlined steps to the summit

Select a step...
Peak Small White
OnboardingContent cloudContent cloudContent cloudContent cloud
  • Start with filling out a quick questionnaire so we can determine your needs.
  • Next we schedule a meeting in person or online, if needed.
  • We then send you an estimate of the cost for the website and chose services.
  • If you approve the estimate we proceed with onboarding you to the pathfinding journey
complete needs analysis
PlanningContent cloudContent cloudContent cloudContent cloud
  • First, we orientate you on the project and project management tools we use.
  • Utilising industry best practices, we assemble the site map.
  • We construct a wireframe outlining content for necessary pages
  • We craft a distinctive brand style guide for your website.
  • Images and graphics are then sourced, to compliment the content.
  • For effectiveness, we carefully curate the content.
  • For the last step of this phase, we design a high-fidelity prototype.
what content do you need?
BuildingContent cloudContent cloudContent cloudContent cloud
  • To kick-start development, we setup the platform the site will be built on.
  • We delve deep into dev mode, and role out all the pages of the site.
  • Any special features are added in the form of widgets.
  • After you approve the site, we mobile and SEO optimise everything.
  • Zoho Apps are setup and configured to suit your needs.
  • Your email accounts are created and emails are migrated to the new server.
functionality & design
LaunchingContent cloudContent cloudContent cloudContent cloud
  • We submit the site for internal and external testing.
  • You provide us with final feedback and sign-off.
  • We point your website domain to the new website hosting server.
  • All systems go - we publish your website and show it off to the world.
visit our grandstand
A mountain to summitA mountain to summit

On our Steps to the Summit, designing your website is the third peak we set out to summit. On this ascent, we come up with innovative page designs and prioritise functionality.

When it comes to innovation, we love venturing off the beaten track and continuously discovering new pathways to success for our clients.

House icon

The right foundation

Just like a house, a website has a foundation. This basis must be stable to support your online requirements and the site's scalability when accelerating your marketing efforts.

In our experience, Drupal, Joomla and WordPress (three of the most popular CMS website builders) do not provide sufficient stability and scalability.

 In this blog, we detail the disadvantages of building with WordPress.

The cluttered dashboard of a WordPress website
Three trails of footprints with one trail leading to Webflow

Like true pathfinders, we diverged from the well-trodden road against popular opinions in favour of WordPress. Instead, we ventured into the secure and scalable world of Webflow and pure, semantic HTML, CSS and Javascript. Webflow (one of the greatest web design tools) is backed by AWS hosting and sports its very own ultra flexible CMS.

Webflow outputs pure HTML code that we can host on AWS with its CMS functionality or on our own dedicated hosting server with Xneelo.

We put Webflow up against WordPress to see its advantages in this blog:

Wordpress vs Webflow.

 In short, we build websites that no longer rely on clunky plugins and themes that need constant updating. We can provide 10x better security and speed regardless of the size of the site.

Unlimited website design

With tools like Webflow at our disposal, we can accomplish our true passion: creating business websites with zero limits to creativity and functionality! And, of course, all our websites are designed with a mobile-first approach, meaning they are 100% responsive on different devices. 

Don't believe us? Our grandstand website showcase says it all!

visit our grandstand