Web & Conversion

Website Design & Development

Strategy, creative and performance, built as one growth system. Scoped as a standalone project or run inside a Solando engagement.

Marketing sites, e-commerce and institutional websites built around a defined conversion path. Strategy, UX, design and development by one team, so every page has a job and every visit has a next step.

What it is

Conversion-focused web design means building a website backwards from the action you need visitors to take: a booked call, a purchase, an enquiry. Structure, copy, design and code are all decided against that path.

The result is a site that explains the business clearly and turns attention into pipeline.

The problem we usually find.

The pattern

Most growth-stage websites were built for an earlier version of the business. The company has moved on (new offers, bigger clients, new markets) but the website still describes who it used to be. The signs are familiar:

  • Traffic arrives, but enquiries don’t.
  • The sales team re-explains the offer on every call, because the site doesn’t.
  • Every change needs a developer, so the site stops being updated.
  • The site looks fine, but nobody can say what it is supposed to achieve.

A redesign alone rarely fixes this. A new look on the same unclear structure gives the same result. That’s why we start with the conversion path, and only then design.

How we work · 5 steps

How we work.

01

Diagnose. We review your current site, analytics, search visibility and sales process, and agree on the one or two actions the site must drive.

02

Architect. Sitemap, page purposes and user flows. Each page gets a job, a primary audience and a next step before any design starts.

03

Write and design. Copy and visual design are produced together on your brand system, so the message leads and the design supports it.

04

Build. Development on WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or a custom stack, chosen for what your team needs to run, not for what we prefer to sell. Speed, accessibility and SEO foundations are built in from the first line of code.

05

Launch and support. QA across devices, tracking set up, search engines notified, and 30 days of post-launch support.

What’s included · 7 deliverables

Everything the engagement covers.

Built for search and AI from day one.

SEO foundations

Every site we build ships with the foundations that search engines and AI tools rely on to understand a business: clean page structure, one clear topic per page, structured data that names who you are and what you offer, fast loading on mobile, and a sitemap submitted to Google and Bing.

Your new site doesn’t need an SEO “fix” six months after launch.

Proof

Selected work.

01

UNETEL. A membership association whose website read as generic. We rebuilt the brand system and redesigned the website around how members and partners actually think about the organisation. Every page now reflects a specific stakeholder need. View the case study →

02

African Digital Week (2021, 2022, 2024). A dedicated event website and mobile app for West Africa’s flagship digital summit, rebuilt for each edition and delivered on fixed, non-negotiable dates. View the case study →

Right fit

This is for you if…

If one or more of these sounds familiar, it is worth a conversation.

01

Your current site doesn’t reflect your business

02

Traffic arrives but doesn’t convert

03

You need infrastructure to grow into, not out of

FAQ

Common questions.

Most marketing websites take 5 to 10 weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on the number of pages, content readiness and integrations. We give you a fixed timeline after the diagnosis.

WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or a custom stack. We recommend the one your team can update without us. You own the site, the content and the accounts.

Yes. Copy is written with the design, not poured in afterwards. If you have existing content, we restructure and edit it.

Yes. Technical SEO, structured data, speed and a clean page structure are part of every build. Ongoing SEO & GEO work is available separately.

Yes. We work remotely with clients across the Gulf, Europe and Africa, in English and French.

How this fits

Where this sits in the growth system.

Website Design & Development can be scoped as a standalone project or delivered inside one of Solando’s three engagement formats. Most engagements use it as a component of the Build or as ongoing work inside the System.

Next step

Ready to move?

Book a strategy call and we’ll tell you honestly whether Website Design & Development is the right first move, or whether something upstream needs to come first.