Website Development for Architecture Studios

Many studio sites open with a full-screen sequence of images, no words and a menu hidden behind an icon.

• The first screen of a phone shows a single photograph of built work, one sentence on what you design and where, and a visible way to ask about a project.
• The menu is written out: projects, how we work, the studio, contact. A client should never have to guess where the phone number is.

A visitor planning an extension wants to see extensions, not scroll through schools and offices.

• The portfolio can be filtered by kind of building, each project keeps one permanent address, and built work is kept apart from competition entries and unbuilt designs.
• Photographs are served in sizes that suit the screen and plans as light, sharp files that can be enlarged, so a page with thirty images still loads on mobile data.

The build goes as fast as the material arrives.

• We need the photographs with the photographer's licence for web use, drawings cleared of names and addresses, a few facts per project and the registration details of the architects.
• At launch the old project addresses are redirected, so links from magazines keep working, and afterwards we count enquiries by kind of project and note which project pages were opened before each.