At Home Estates
Web Design & Development ConcreteCMS Hosting Maintenance & Support
The Challenge
At Home are leaders in leveraging digital in order to market their properties over and above what the competition are able to do.
The client wanted a new "bespoke" website to replace their "package" one. This would be more flexible, removing editing limitations so that their SEO Agency could promote the new website to it's maximum potential.
The old website was also looking tired, so we were asked to redesign the site to bring it fully up to date.
Our Approach
Working with the client and the clients' marketing agency, we identified massive potential in the marketplace for more online sales of properties. We also saw there was a lot of potential to get more clients wanting to rent and landlords wishing to let out their property. At Home have a fresh brand which is very well known in the area, so we wanted the website to live up to that, perfectly reflecting At Home, their brand and values.
We started producing an existing sitemap to show the layout of pages in the current website. This allows us and the client to visual and assess what they currently have. Working with the client, we identified some areas for improvement and removal of irrelevant pages and produced a new proposed sitemap as the base for the new website.
Once the sitemap was approved, we moved onto sketching ideas for the layout of the homepage in order to produce wireframes before moving onto the design phase. We then moved onto producing the high fidelity designs using the clients branding and images. The site is designed to be fully responsive and highly accessible for everyone, with good text size, contrast, clear navigation etc. It is designed to really help sell the properties, with clear details and large property images.
We created an XML feed from the clients' CRM system that automatically updates the properties on the website, which runs very frequently to keep things up to date. The website also has the ability to make changes to properties in the backend should an urgent need arise.
Using ConcreteCMS, the website is extremely flexible for creating new pages, editing title and meta tags, building links and other activities vital to helping improve and optimise the site for search engines.
Results
The project has been a huge success in the following ways...
- +15% increase in traffic
- +10.9% session duration
- Flexible CMS to make any required SEO changes
- Stunning new brochure to help sell properties
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Happy clients150+
Websites in our care9+
Years trading94%
Client retention
Would highly recommend Dave Reeder at Made Simple Media. From the initial meeting he understood our needs and wants and was able to enhance our ideas, incorporating the new website into our company rebrand. We are delighted with the final result, which has already resulted in new enquiries for our business. And all in a timely fashion and within budget.
Steve
Great personal service from Made Simple Media to understand our requirements, and explain every step in the design process for our new website. They are always on hand to give support and guidance, and we now have a professional website that is attractive and easy to manage. Many thanks!
Peter, Henfield Theatre Company
Made Simple Media have made a number of websites for us and their work is always of a high standard. They are fast acting when we need help and I would happily recommend Made Simple Media to anyone looking for web development help.
Chris, Respirex International
We are delighted with the quality of our new website, which has enabled us to effectively communicate our various areas of work and build an engaged and increasingly active audience. The common-sense design and easy-to-navigate structure has also helped us establish our organisational identity following a full rebrand in 2017. The support has been excellent throughout.
Jack Dixon, Imperial Health Charity
Very helpful and professional company and people. They created a trading website for us and were able to even provide the SEO back up and continuing support. The website has been running now for a few years and has increased the online sales dramatically. Very supportive with changes as required. Would definitely recommend.
Adam Stally
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