Web
Think a website is just a bunch of pretty pixels? You’re missing the big brand and business picture.
Your website needs to showcase your brand, build trust and convert. And that calls for a rare blend of brand, technology, design, UX, development and SEO smarts. Our blend.
Your brand is only as good as your website.
To be the best website – the kind of website prospective customers will eat up and make your competitors feel sick – it needs to be fast, secure, beautiful, intuitive and call out to people.
This is what we do. This is our difference. We combine the wealth of brand strategy, website development, SEO, UX and design expertise within our team with lightning-fast technology. The result is a website that doesn’t just tick the website box, but all the brand, business and ROI boxes.
From copywriting, photography, design and development to migration from your old site and ongoing maintenance and SEO, our all-in approach adds value across the board.
Vast experience. Cutting-edge thinking.
While we’ve been building brands and websites for decades, our web team invests heavily in R&D. It goes without saying that everything we do meets the latest design and development standards. But more than that, we’re constantly evolving our approach and solutions.
Custom WordPress development.
We use WordPress, and with good reason. It’s the world’s most trusted CMS. But WordPress can be slow. That’s why we custom-build our websites, with an unwavering focus on lean, stable code and minimal plugins.
Blazing fast React frontends.
Lean, custom code makes WordPress fast. But we also use React (a JavaScript library) frontends to deliver super-fast performance.
ReactJS’s sublimely efficient code delivers virtually instant rendering, practically making the term ‘load speed’ obsolete. Less time waiting for pages to load. More satisfying, immersive experiences.
Built for SEO from the ground up.
Our websites are built on a robust and thorough SEO foundation that will future-proof your site. You’ll be ideally placed to dominate the search engine rankings today and into the future.
Our Results
Love the team at Distl! They're super helpful, quick to respond and the staff are always friendly. We had our website re-built by them recently. They offered great ideas and advice and were easy to collaborate with. The team took our site to a whole new level and we couldn't be happier. Highly recommend their services.
Whether you want more local leads and sales or you’re aiming for world domination. Whether you need to sell products via your website or engage with customers via an app. We’ve got you covered.
Want a website that delivers on every level?
You need a web design and development company that does too.
Web design & development that understands your brand & SEO
Custom web design & Development
WordPress is the world’s favourite website development platform. Ours too. It’s robust, flexible, open-source and ubiquitous – you’ll find WordPress designers and developers everywhere, so you’re never tied to one web development company. But best of all, because we know WordPress inside-out, we can build a lean, custom-designed site for you from the ground up, quickly and cost effectively. See why we’re Perth’s best WordPress developers.
E-commerce
If you want a website that sells your products effectively, you need more than a shopping cart. You need an e-commerce site that’s secure, scalable and easy to manage. That’s responsive and mobile-friendly. That offers different payment and shipping options, and analytics that turn data into powerful insights. And you need integrated SEO, Google Ads and social media to reach the right customers.
User Experience (or UX)
Ever noticed how some websites just feel right? Natural. Intuitive. It’s no accident. It’s the result of user experience or UX design where everything – from information architecture (IA) and navigation to branding, design and copywriting – are carefully planned by our web designers & developers to create a website experience that engages casual visitors and converts them into paying customers.
Website domains & hosting
OK, so domains and hosting and IP addresses and website load speeds may not be as sexy as website design, but the domain hosting choices you make can be the difference between success and the f-word. You might not always be able to tell the difference between one domain hosting solution and another, but Google can. So don’t take any chances. Get the domain hosting basics right.
Discover why we’re Perth’s go-to web hosting guys.
Website design & development with Distl
Perth web developers & designers are all much of a muchness, right? Wrong. If you want a website that works reliably and effectively on every level, you need a web design and development company that does too – a company, like ours, that makes achieving the hardest online objectives feel easy. There really is a difference between custom and premade WordPress templates.
Don’t skip any steps with your website
Whether you’re building a house or invading a country, you’ll need a plan. Or you can be sure you’ll end up with egg on your face.
And a website is no different. We speak with many clients who have dived head first into a new site without knowing what they are trying to achieve. The results are mostly disastrous.
That’s why we always start with a plan.
Lay the foundations
When we meet with any new client, the first question we ask is “why?”. More specifically, why do you need to build a new site and what do you want it to do.
Often the answer isn’t as simple as it might seem. Although most websites are designed to generate leads or new business, this isn’t always the case. Some sites are there to build trust, brand awareness or capture email addresses. Don’t fall into the trap of building a new site without being clear on your goal.
With the purpose defined, we get to work planning the site structure – it’s URLs, information architecture, the user flow and content plan. We need to understand the goal of each page, what we would like users to do once they arrive and when they are ready to move on.
By creating an effective website foundation, everything that follows is purpose driven and built to grow into, not out of.
Choose the right website technology for your needs
You might not see the code that powers a website, but you’ll experience it.
With lean code and best in class technology under the hood, your site will be faster, more engaging and perform better in the search engines. Good code is the X factor that elevates a sites experience above the mediocre.
As web conventions evolve, you need confidence that your web partner will too. Our web team invest heavily in R&D to ensure we’re consistently ahead of the curve with the best solutions.
Next generation code
Yes, traditional WordPress is widely trusted and easy to use, but it can be slow. Which is why we’ve teamed its trusted CMS with a React (JavaScript library) front end to deliver performance that has made the term “load speed” virtually obsolete.
ReactJS’s sublimely efficient code delivers virtually instant rendering that allows us to worry less about waiting for pages to load and more on delivering immersive experiences that will keep your customers and Google smiling.
Fill your site with engaging content
As harsh as it sounds, without great content, your website is a waste of space. A pointless distraction from the millions of quality sites fighting for attention.
Content shouldn’t be an afterthought to a website’s design. The reality is, it’s the reason your site exists. Visitors don’t come to your site to be entertained, they come for high quality, trustworthy solutions to answer their questions and solve their problems.
What is content?
Content is anything on your site that educates or informs your visitors. Whether it’s written (copy), visual (video, images, infographics etc) or audio (interviews, music etc), content should be your website’s greatest asset.
But that’s not all. It’s one thing to have great content, it’s another to deliver it in a way that’s easy to find, easy to digest and likely to achieve its purpose.
That’s why our website process places content creation front and centre.
Apply a fresh design that speaks to your website’s visitors
Fundamental to a website’s success is quality, conversion focussed design. No matter the quality of your content, a naff design will distract and diminish trust.
Web design is a unique and specialised discipline. Unlike print design, web design isn’t static – it needs to adapt to an ever-increasing range of mobile, tablet and desktop requirements. And achieving an exceptional result is no accident.
Follow the conventions
There’s no doubt creativity is key to good design, but when it comes to web, it’s not always the case. By fixating on new and different ways to design a site, the risk is that user waste valuable time figuring out what to do. Valuable time that could be spent clicking and converting.
Menu positioning call to actions, content hierarchy, phone number placement all have learned conventions embedded in our minds from years of navigating the web. As soon as we break these conventions, we risk confusing users and losing their interest.
A great web design will stay focussed on being seamless and intuitive, even if it means following the same conventions used for many years.
Web design trends come and go, but the same rules apply. Make a site easy to use, eliminate distractions and remain focussed on the goal.
How much does it cost to build a website?
While our websites start at around $10,000, we can consult with you free of charge to find a solution that suits your exact requirements.
What platforms do you use for your sites?
Most of our sites are built using the WordPress CMS however we also develop with Shopify for ecommerce and some other technology options.
How long do you take to build a site?
Depending on the size and complexity of a site, we take anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months. We’ll do our best to work to your deadlines without cutting any corners.
Can you write copy or arrange photography for my site?
It’s common for us to produce the content for the sites we build. We have in-house copywriters, photographers and videographers who would love to work with you.
Why do I need a new website?
It’s possible that you don’t. We may be able to work with your current site to achieve your objectives. If your site’s code and design are generally poor, it may be better to build a new site. It’s a bit like renovating a house vs building a new house.
There are so many web developers, why choose Distl?
We combine exceptional design, lean code and great content with decades of branding experience. We’ll not only create an incredible site, we’ll help you realise your big picture goals – we’ve been doing it for over 20 years.