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.
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. Direct for brands, white-label for agencies.
Designed with the build in mind, nothing unbuildable✦
4,500+ projects delivered since 2004✦
Clear IP & Ownership Terms✦
Reply within four business hours (typical)✦
500+ agencies served✦
WCAG 2.1 AA as a default, not an upsell✦
Designed with the build in mind, nothing unbuildable✦
4,500+ projects delivered since 2004✦
Clear IP & Ownership Terms✦
Reply within four business hours (typical)✦
500+ agencies served✦
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
A broad range of creative services, one bold, easy-to-navigate site.
Creative Agency · United Kingdom
Agency website
CFH Design: a bold website for a full-service UK creative agency.
A UK creative agency with more than 40 years behind it offers everything from branding to exhibitions. We turned that breadth into a professional, image-led website that is easy to navigate and showcases the work.
The team understood what we needed from our website and translated our broad range of creative services into a professional online presence. The site is visually strong, easy to navigate and does a much better job of showcasing our work and capabilities.
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
30
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.
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.
Where the engagement includes it, your design work runs in a Prism workspace you log into: review requests, sign-offs, the task list and the weekly review, with each decision recorded.
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.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
Response and start times
We typically respond within four business hours. Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed.
Business hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm IST, excluding published company holidays. Typical expectations, not guaranteed service levels.
Every delivery is reviewed before release by QA, your Project or Account Manager and a senior delivery lead, and you then review it against the acceptance criteria agreed at the start. Our specialists use AI to support delivery, with people responsible for reviewing the work. Applicable development work includes 30 days of corrective maintenance after production launch.
Who owns the ad accounts, the data and the work?
Your materials, data and accounts remain yours, and we prefer to work in advertising and analytics accounts you own, with access delegated to our team. Agreed ownership rights in bespoke deliverables transfer under the engagement terms and applicable payment; third-party software and assets keep their licences. We do not withhold customer-owned data or accounts over a payment dispute.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
How will we know what you are doing?
Before work starts we agree how often you get updates, what the reports cover and who sends them. You know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue. For hourly and retainer work, time is recorded in Workstatus, so you can see the time records behind your invoice.
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. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your written, priced scope. Agencies get white-label rates they can quote onward with margin.
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.
Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your scoped, itemised web design proposal. Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.