Custom WordPress design and development

Beautiful design has its place. But the design must work hand-in-hand with the writing, the strategy, and a very focused message. We design and build WordPress sites around what each page has to do, then make sure your team can run them.

Is your website working for you, or for your designer's portfolio?

A lot of websites are built to impress other designers. They win praise for how they look, and nobody can tell you what they bring in. Meanwhile, your team is afraid to edit a page in case it breaks, the site slows down every time someone adds a plugin, and inquiries fall through the cracks between the form and your inbox.

What we build

  • Design with a job to do. Every page is designed around one goal: an inquiry, a booking, a download, a sale. The design serves the message, not the other way around.
  • Built the way we’d want our own built. Every page follows our own standards and draws on a library of custom components we maintain, so the site stays consistent from one page to the next.
  • Speed and structure. Pages built for speed, with search structure and schema in place from day one, not bolted on later.
  • Easy for your team to edit. Your team can change the words and images without breaking the layout. That’s a design requirement from the first page, not an afterthought.
  • Tested on phones before launch. Every page is checked on phones and desktops before it goes live.
  • Lead capture, tested end to end. Forms, inquiry paths, and booking handoffs that route every lead to the right place, tested with real submissions.
  • Integrations. Booking engines, CRMs, and Google’s tools connected to the site, so information goes where it needs to go.
  • Care after launch. Updates, performance checks, content changes, and a running list of improvements. Every change gets built and tested on a staging copy first, so your live site is never the test lab.

Don't let interested visitors walk away.

You wouldn’t give someone a business card with no phone number or email address, right?

Yet how often have you found a great website with exactly what you needed, then forgotten what it was and never found it again?

If potential customers are coming to your website and you aren’t capturing their information, you’re working hard to attract people you’ll never hear from again. There’s no point to spending the time, money, and effort to get people to your website in the hopes that they will buy everything they ever need from you on the first visit.

You need a strategy for building a relationship with your customers.

So we build the capture points (inquiry forms, booking paths, sign-ups) and make sure each one lands where someone will act on it.

Subscriber acquisition tools

Squeeze Gear

Squeeze Gear is our lead capture and email follow-up service: an offer worth trading an email address for, then drip campaigns that stay in touch until each lead is ready to buy.

AI in how we build

AI is built into our workflow, which speeds up the build. Before a build starts, we research current platform and search guidance, and AI-assisted checks test the build against current best practices, to keep it aligned as those practices change. We build on a staging copy, and anything we publish on your site goes live only with our founder’s sign-off.

How a website project runs

  1. Plan. What the site has to do, page by page, and how we’ll measure it.

  2. Design. Layouts built around the message and reviewed with real content, not placeholder text.

  3. Build. On a private staging copy of your site. Anything we publish on your site goes live only with our founder’s sign-off.

  4. Launch. Every old URL that matters redirected to its new home, tracking verified, and forms tested with real submissions.

  5. Run it or hand it off. Ongoing care, or a clean handoff with documentation.

How we measure it

Inquiries and bookings by page and by traffic source, form completion rates, page speed measured on real visitors’ devices, and search visibility for the pages that matter most.

Recent website work

A luxury hospitality brand

Website, booking integration, guest forms, and conversion tracking.

An enterprise software company

We run the website, search, and measurement, and we’ve built custom tools for its team.

From earlier work

“I don’t know anyone in possession of more technical wizardry (plus a sharp as hell marketing eye) than Den Bradshaw. I won’t go into all the amazing stuff I’ve seen Den build. Just trust me, the guy’s a miracle man.”

Andrew WayOwner, South Swell Marketing

“They were able to take my vision and translate it into exactly what I was looking for. … Most importantly, when you work with [Marketing Magnet] you not only feel like you made a quality choice, but you also feel like you built a quality friendship.”

Justin SzaboCEO and Founder, ScoutMe.com

“Not only is Den’s team incredibly skilled at all aspects of web design and programming… Den is an internet marketing genius… Den understands the complexities and subtleties of marketing in a way that powerfully shape the [Marketing Magnet] approach to building websites and handling projects.”

Dr. Bill EshbaughPlastic Surgeon, Founder of FloridaBody.com

“KILLER work on the GM stuff… Fast, efficient, and to the point. Again, awesome work on this stuff… thanks Den!”

Eben PaganOwner, Get Altitude

Questions people ask

Why WordPress?

Because you should never be locked into one developer, including us. WordPress is widely supported and your team can learn it, and if we ever part ways, another developer can pick up where we left off.

Can you work with the site we have?

Often, yes. Sometimes a rebuild is the right call. Either way, we’ll tell you which and why.

Will we be able to edit it ourselves?

Yes. That’s a design requirement, not an afterthought. We build components so the layout holds up when you change the words.

What happens to our old links when you rebuild?

Every old URL that matters gets mapped to its new home, so links from other sites and your search visibility don’t dead-end.

Tell us about the site you have, or the one you need.