A chartered building surveyors called us last year asking for help with their website, which had not performed well in the eight years since it was built. They desperately needed their website to bring them new business.
A chartered building surveyors called us last year asking for help with their website, which had not performed well in the eight years since it was built. They desperately needed their website to bring them new business.
They had used a flash design agency and took it as read that because the site looked amazing, everything would be amazing, but the web designer employed by the flash design agency had no real experience in building websites. Building a website (ie using code to build the foundations) is not the same as designing a website (which is what it looks like on the front end).
We had a look and agreed the website looked amazing. Then we looked at the code and discovered that the website had been built using a Wordpress template and a poor one. We quickly identified a number of very basic textbook errors and then found advanced, serious errors in the code
Their visitors over the last eight years averaged two per day. We made some changes and fixed the simplest errors in the code (some are going to take a little longer to resolve). Their position started to improve within a month and they are now receiving over 11 visitors per day.
