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Constraint
No analytics survived the rebuild, so no number appears
Client
W Communications, a strategic communications and speaking practice
Scope
8 pages across 4 audiences, brand system
Stack
WordPress

A strategic communications consultancy rebuilt across 8 pages

WordPress website redesign for a strategic communications consultancy. Client: W Communications, A strategic communications and speaking practice.

A producer needs a communications expert on air in 90 minutes. She has 1 name, 1 browser tab, and no patience. She needs the credential, the topics, a photograph she is allowed to use, and a way to reach somebody who answers. The site opens with a paragraph about the practice. The credential is somewhere further down. The topics are inside a document. The photograph is 400 pixels wide. She does not send an email asking for a media kit, because she does not have 90 minutes to wait for one. She books the second name on her list, who had a page she could read in 40 seconds.

4 audiences cannot be served by 1 page. They can be served by 4 pages that each know who arrived.

What was actually happening?

Media, clients, event bookers and readers all arrived at the same page and were handed the same paragraph. The proof existed and sat below the fold. Nothing on the site was structured so that a producer, or a machine answering a question about the practice, could lift a fact out of it and use it without asking a person first.

Every figure below is a real capture of the live page. Each frame caps its height and scrolls inside itself, so a full-page capture can be read end to end without leaving the figure. Both frames are reachable by keyboard. Nothing here is a mockup or a drawn schematic.

1. What should a consultancy homepage do when 4 audiences arrive at it?

Before: 1 homepage opening with a general paragraph about the practice and no named audience.
Before: 1 homepage opening with a general paragraph about the practice and no named audience.
After: a homepage that names each audience and sends it to the page built for it.
After: a homepage that names each audience and sends it to the page built for it.

2. Where does the credential belong on a personal practice site?

Before: a biography page where the credential sits below several paragraphs of narrative.
Before: a biography page where the credential sits below several paragraphs of narrative.
After: a biography page leading with the credential, with the narrative underneath it.
After: a biography page leading with the credential, with the narrative underneath it.

3. How should expertise be structured so it can be quoted?

Before: expertise described in prose, with the topics implied rather than listed.
Before: expertise described in prose, with the topics implied rather than listed.
After: an expertise page with 1 topic per section, each quotable on its own.
After: an expertise page with 1 topic per section, each quotable on its own.

4. What does a client page have to show a buyer?

Before: a client list without context or the nature of the engagements.
Before: a client list without context or the nature of the engagements.
After: a client page that states what the work was for each name shown.
After: a client page that states what the work was for each name shown.

5. What does a producer need on a media page?

Before: a media page requiring an email before anything usable is available.
Before: a media page requiring an email before anything usable is available.
After: a media page a producer can use without sending an email first.
After: a media page a producer can use without sending an email first.

6. What should a speaking page state before the enquiry?

Before: a speaking page without formats, topics or audience.
Before: a speaking page without formats, topics or audience.
After: a speaking page stating formats and topics, then 1 enquiry action.
After: a speaking page stating formats and topics, then 1 enquiry action.

7. How should published work be presented?

Before: books listed as images with no description or route to purchase.
Before: books listed as images with no description or route to purchase.
After: a books page with the description and the purchase route beside each title.
After: a books page with the description and the purchase route beside each title.

8. How many ways to make contact is the right number?

Before: a contact page offering several competing routes and no indication of which is fastest.
Before: a contact page offering several competing routes and no indication of which is fastest.
After: a contact page with 1 primary route and the reply expectation stated.
After: a contact page with 1 primary route and the reply expectation stated.

Before against after, with the measured column

WhatBeforeAfterMeasured
Audience routing1 page for 4 audiences8 pages, 1 audience eachNot measured
CredentialBelow the narrativeLeads the biography pageNot measured
Media accessEmail required firstUsable on the pageNot measured
CitabilityProse, no structureStructured headings and metadataNot measured

What was built?

  • A brand system covering mark, type, colour and layout rules, applied across all 8 pages.
  • 8 pages, 1 question each for media, clients, speaking and published work.
  • A media page a producer can use without sending an email to get anything.
  • Structured headings and metadata so an answer engine can cite the practice without a person in the loop.

What changed, and what is not claimed?

8 pages shipped, each carrying 1 audience and 1 question, on a brand system that covers mark, type, colour and layout. The media page can be used without an email, and the pages are structured so a fact can be lifted out of them and cited correctly.

What this case cannot tell you

  • Whether the redesign changed enquiry volume or quality.
  • Whether the media page produced more bookings.
  • Whether the speaking page shortened the enquiry cycle.
  • Whether the structural work increased citations in answer engines.

The honest limitation

No performance data exists for this rebuild. No analytics survived it. Everything on this page is an architecture claim and should be read as one.

This engagement runs as Website Design.

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