Valden
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Websites
Marketing sites designed from a blank page, on a CMS your team can run.
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Redesigns
A rebuild for the site that no longer matches the business, without losing your rankings.
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E-commerce
Shopify and headless stores that sell the product properly, from catalogue to checkout.
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Brand & motion
Type, colour, components and movement that carry the brand online.
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Care & growth
Updates, speed, testing and a named developer after launch.
Studio notes
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What websites cost, which platform to pick, why speed scores mislead. Written by the designers and developers who do the work, for the people who commission it.
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What a website redesign should cost in 2026
Quotes for the same brief can range from £4,000 to £90,000. Where the money actually goes, what a fair price looks like at each level, and the questions that expose a weak quote.
Process
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What a website redesign should cost in 2026
Process
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Product pages that sell: lessons from our Shopify stores
The product page does most of the selling, and most of them are built from the same theme default. What we change first, and why it works.
Commerce
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Product pages that sell: lessons from our Shopify stores
Commerce
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Framer, Webflow or Shopify: choosing a platform your team can run
The best platform is the one your team will still be happy using in three years. How we choose between Framer, Webflow, Shopify, WordPress and a custom stack.
Build
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Framer, Webflow or Shopify: choosing a platform your team can run
Build
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How we plan a sitemap in one workshop
Two hours, a wall of paper and four rules. How we get from a sprawling old site to a sitemap the whole team agrees on, before anyone opens Figma.
Design
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How we plan a sitemap in one workshop
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The brief we ask every client to write
One page, seven questions, written before the first workshop. Why we ask clients to write their own brief, and the questions we give them.
Process
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The brief we ask every client to write
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Why your Lighthouse score is lying to you
A perfect 100 on your laptop says very little about how the site feels on a mid-range phone on a train. What we measure instead, and the fixes that actually move it.
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Why your Lighthouse score is lying to you
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