Building a Bespoke WordPress Website: Your Guide to Getting It Right

May 9, 2025
Building a Bespoke WordPress Website: Your Guide to Getting It Right

A custom build might seem like a big step—but with the right guidance, it’s one of the best investments you can make in your brand’s future.

If you're running a business in Newcastle, Gateshead, or anywhere across the UK, you’ve probably outgrown your cookie-cutter website. A bespoke WordPress website gives you control, flexibility, and a design that reflects your brand—not someone else’s template. But what does building a custom site really involve? And how do you know what to expect?

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April 29, 2025
The Power of Responsive Web Design: Elevating SEO and User Experience to New Heights

Let’s face it—most people visit your website on their phone first. If your site looks awkward or slow to load, they’re gone in seconds. Responsive web design ensures your website adjusts beautifully to every screen size, whether someone’s browsing on a phone, tablet, or desktop.

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November 27, 2013
Does your site look good on a mobile phone? Responsive design will engage your customers on the move.

While it’s apparent that the web is increasingly accessed by phones and tablets on the move and on the sofa, many websites are yet to be updated to respond to this and the result can be very frustrating for the customer. Websites with drop down menus that don’t work on iPad, booking forms that simply […]

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November 15, 2010
National Entertainment Company – Letting a great company flaunt their assets.

Martin from the NEC already had the right idea, he had built his company website using wordpress as a CMS and just needed a great theme design to make it pop. Since the NEC provide events management and equipment for a massive range of party entertainment – from paintball and foam cannons to bouncy castles […]

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July 23, 2010
Coastline Fish & Chips – a business website run on Wordpress.

Coastline is a great “chippy” on the coast of Blyth in the north east of England providing quality fish and chips. We were very happy to build their website, and spent a sunny day taking photographs to use on the theme. We even built our own weather widget for the site!

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March 25, 2010
Search Kingdom – Another Satisfied Customer

Search Kingdom is a great resource for SEO knowledge which is definitely worth reading for anyone who wants to get more traffic to their site. The blog instantly clears away many of the myths surrounding SEO and keeps strictly to the facts we know about the top search engine algorithms and various practical tips to […]

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March 12, 2010
Etoys.co.uk – New Design, Wordpress and Shopwindow Integration

Etoys.co.uk was originally a simple ShopWindow site that required a revamp to bring it up to date and achieve better SEO. ShopWindow is a great affiliate software client that uses its API to query the Affiliate Window product database of over 4 million products. An affiliate can literally upload the client to his web space […]

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