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Web design built to convert
and to rank.

Marketing sites and landing pages from one senior team: researched before they're drawn, structured so buyers and search engines both find what they need, and delivered as a system, so page forty looks as considered as page one.

Proposal in 48 hours · First deliverable in 14 days

  • Hello Peter
  • Gruber Logistics
  • Delhivery
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Qatar Airways
  • Grundfos
  • Save
  • BERD
  • Yale University
  • Kuwait Police
  • Dubai Police
  • Panasonic
  • Infosys
  • Kia
  • Hitachi
  • Orange Business Services
In one answer

PixelCrayons designs marketing websites and landing pages that are structured to convert visitors and rank in search. Every project starts with research into your buyers and your search demand. It ships as a reusable design system rather than one-off pages, and ends in dev-ready files, or production code from the same team. WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility is the default. First deliverable within 14 days; direct for brands, white-label for agencies.

The operating record

Judge the record,
not the adjectives.

Outcomes tied to real engagements, not averages.

21 yrs
Years in continuous delivery
100+
Agency partnerships
2,500+
Projects delivered
30+
Countries served
2+ yrs
Average partner retention
14 days
NDA to first deliverable
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
Client outcome: eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
Client outcome: SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · zero churn
Client outcome: via agency partner
Clutch — 4.8 / 5 ratingGoodFirms — 4.7 / 5 rating
Google Partner
Meta Business Partner
Shopify Partner
Where the work happens
ShopifyWooCommerceMagentoWordPressWebflowKlaviyoGoogle AdsMeta AdsGA4Next.js
  • First deliverable in 14 days: NDA to first pages
  • WCAG 2.1 AA as a default, not an upsell
  • Designed with the build in mind, nothing unbuildable
  • 2,500+ projects shipped since 2004
  • You own every file, token and template
  • Proposals in 48 hours
  • 100+ agency partners white-label our work
How we report it, in Prism

The states ledger,
before a screen is signed off.

What you receive in month one

Design is reported as a set of documents you can review without a walkthrough. In the first month you receive the research summary with the tasks users need to complete, the information architecture with every page and its purpose, and the states ledger listing each screen with its empty, loading, error and success states. Review rounds are logged with the decisions taken and the reasons for them.

  • 01Research summary: user tasks, existing friction, and what was observed
  • 02Information architecture: every page, its purpose, and how users reach it
  • 03States ledger: each screen with empty, loading, error and success states
  • 04Component inventory: what is reused, what is new, and where each appears
  • 05Decision log: each review round, what changed and why

Related workD2C fragrance retailer: a store structured to sell.Commerce · Gulf · A different discipline, so it is linked here rather than presented as proof of this one.

How a site is actually costed

Nobody designs forty pages.
They design seven templates.

Page count is the first number every buyer reaches for and the one that tells you least. Design effort tracks the number of distinct layouts a site needs, and the number of genuinely distinct layouts is always far smaller than the number of URLs.

The example site42URLs7Templates2Genuinely bespoke pages
  • Service page

    14 pages

    Must survive · A one-line service and a twelve-section one. Three proof blocks or none. The version with a case study and the version still waiting for approval.

  • Article

    12 pages

    Must survive · Long-form with subheads, tables, code, pull quotes and images at three widths, and the 400-word note that has none of them.

  • Industry / segment page

    6 pages

    Must survive · Sector proof where it exists, and a structure that still holds for the sectors where it does not yet.

  • Case study

    5 pages

    Must survive · Numbers, or no numbers. A named client, or an anonymised one. Both have to look deliberate.

  • Listing / index

    3 pages

    Must survive · Two items and two hundred, with filters that do not break either.

  • Home

    1 pageBespoke

    Must survive · The only page whose job is to route rather than convert, and the one page that earns bespoke design outright.

  • Contact

    1 pageBespoke

    Must survive · The highest-intent page on the site. Bespoke because a template that also has to serve fourteen service pages will compromise it.

Where the cost actually sits

Not in drawing seven layouts: in the states inside them. Empty, loading, error, one item, two hundred items, no image, missing proof, longest plausible heading. A template that only works with ideal content is not finished. It has been demonstrated. That difference is most of the gap between a cheap quote and a workable one.

When you compare two proposals, compare template counts and what each template must survive. Two quotes for “a 40-page site” can differ by a factor of three and both be fairly priced.

Illustrative site: a typical mid-size services site, not a client project

In writing, every time

What a web design engagement
actually includes.

01

Research before wireframes

Analytics and heatmap review, search-demand mapping and stakeholder interviews before anything is drawn. Every page gets a written job (the visitor it serves, the question it answers, the action it earns) so design reviews debate evidence rather than taste.

Week 1
02

Pages designed to convert

Custom website design means message hierarchy, proof placement and calls to action built from how your buyers actually decide, not from a template of what landing pages are supposed to look like. Design shapes the conversion. The offer and the traffic still have to hold up their end, and we will say so if they are the problem.

Every page
03

Designed to rank, not just to look ranked

Heading logic, content structure and template architecture planned around real search demand, so the pages give an SEO programme something to work with instead of something to fight. One team designs for the buyer and the crawler at once.

Every template
04

Performance-conscious by design

Font weights, imagery and motion chosen with a performance budget in mind, because a beautiful mockup that loads slowly is a slow site with good intentions. What gets designed here gets built fast: the constraint is in the artboard, not discovered in the build.

Every decision
05

A system, not a stack of pages

Named colours, sizes and spacings (tokens), components and page templates delivered as a reusable library, so the next campaign page is assembled in hours rather than commissioned as a fresh project. Page forty ships looking like page one, because they're built from the same parts.

Every delivery
First 30 days

Brief to first pages,
no mystery in between.

01
Days 1 to 3

Discovery & evidence

Analytics, search demand and your current site audited; stakeholder interviews done; content dependencies flagged early; and what success looks like defined in writing before any design starts.

02
Days 4 to 7

Architecture & direction

Sitemap and page-level jobs agreed, wireframes for the priority pages, and a visual direction presented with rationale and decided with you in the room, so everything after moves fast instead of hedging.

03
Days 8 to 14

First pages land

Priority pages designed inside a live component system: tokens, states and layout rules forming as the pages do. Your first deliverable arrives by day fourteen, ready for structured review.

04
Weeks 3 to 4

Templates & handoff

Remaining templates completed from the system, files documented for handoff to your developers, or the build starts with our own front-end team, with no translation loss in between.

Inside Prism

Your engagement, week to week,
in one workspace.

Your design engagement runs in a Prism workspace you log into: review requests, sign-offs, the task list and the weekly review, with each decision recorded.

  • 01

    Review requests and sign-offs

    One queue, one owner, one due date.

  • 02

    Weekly review

    Each decision recorded, with the expectation attached.

  • 03

    Actions checked against outcome

    What we did and what happened, side by side.

Where this fits

Web design is one part
of the machine.

Selling online specifically? eCommerce Web Design covers storefront and checkout design in more depth than this general page does. Building a product, not a site? Start with UI/UX design. Story unclear before the layout is? Brand identity comes first. Pages approved? Design to code ships them as a working front-end, by the team that drew them.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

There's no flat rate card, because pages are not the unit of work: templates are. In the example on this page, 42 URLs come down to seven templates and two bespoke pages, and the cost sits in the states each template must survive. Every proposal is scoped against your brief and itemises exactly what you get: research activities, templates and bespoke pages, the component system, handoff documentation and the number of review rounds. You compare deliverables, not day rates. You'll have a written, priced scope within 48 hours of the first call. Agencies get white-label rates they can quote onward with margin.

Your first deliverable (priority page designs plus the system foundations) lands within 14 days of the NDA. The timeline is set by page and template count and written into scope; larger sites are phased so development can start before every template is finished. The honest caveat: the most common delay on web projects is content that isn't ready. So we flag content dependencies in week one rather than discovering them at handoff. If a date moves, you hear it from us first, with the reason.

We won't promise a number, because conversion depends on your offer, your traffic and your market as much as on the page. What we commit to is the method: pages designed from evidence about your buyers, clear measurement in place at launch, and plain reads of what the data says afterwards. If you want conversion treated as an ongoing, tested programme rather than a one-time redesign, that's exactly what our CRO service exists for. The two work well together.

Either. The same organisation that designs your site can ship it as a production front-end (semantic markup, accessible components, the spacing and motion exactly as specified) which removes the classic failure where a separate build team quietly reinterprets the design. Equally, you can take just the design to your own developers: files come with named layers, documented tokens, redlines (the exact measurements to build from) and variants (each state a component can be in) a stranger could build from. We answer your developers' questions during the build at no extra charge.

Included, always. WCAG 2.1 AA contrast, visible focus states, reduced-motion alternatives, readable type scales and semantic structure are in the base spec of every engagement, not a line item you can accidentally decline. Accessible pages also tend to be clearer pages, which is good for every visitor and for the search engines reading the same structure. If you have compliance requirements beyond AA (public-sector standards, industry regulation), say so at scoping and we'll spec and test against them explicitly.

Review rounds are written into the scope before work starts: structured feedback windows at the direction, first-deliverable and pre-handoff stages. That makes revisions a planned part of the process, not an open-ended negotiation. Within a round, consolidated feedback is turned around on a stated schedule. Because pages are built from a component system, most revisions propagate across every template at once rather than being patched page by page. If the brief itself changes mid-project, we say so plainly and re-scope that piece rather than absorbing it silently and letting the timeline or the quality slip.

Not for the design itself. Heading logic, content structure and template architecture are planned around real search demand while the pages are designed, so one team designs for the buyer and the crawler at once. The pages then give an SEO programme something to work with instead of something to fight.

Put senior designers
on your next site.

A scoped, itemised web design proposal within 48 hours, and if we go ahead, your first page designs within 14 days of the NDA. Files, tokens and templates are yours to keep either way.

48-hour proposals · NDA standard · You own every file

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