Dom Stapleton

• Thursday Fragrance

  thursdayfragrance.co.uk

  This website – for an independent, gender-free fragrance brand – uses a clean and stylish design with an element of fun, to match the brand. In the background, the website runs on WordPress, which is a popular content management system – and uses WooCommerce to allow customers to order online.

  

• What A Drag

  whatadrag.co.uk

  What A Drag was an online beauty retailer for drag performers that I co-founded in 2018. We sold everything from false lashes and wigs, to our own custom-designed makeup palette and brushes. The website ran on WordPress, which is a popular content management system. Customers could order online and manage their accounts thanks to WooCommerce, which is a highly customisable ecommerce platform.

  

• The Hockley Flower Shop

  thehockleyflowershop.co.uk

  This website was for a boutique florist based in Hockley, Essex. The website ran on WordPress, which is a popular content management system – and customers could order products online thanks to WooCommerce, which is a highly customisable ecommerce platform. The site was fully responsive, meaning it adapted to fit the screen size whether it was viewed on a desktop PC, a tablet or a mobile.

  After only a few months of being launched, the website already began to rank as the number one Google search result for "hockley florist", which was the business's key search term.

  Many of our sales come through the website, and without Dom, we probably wouldn't have had so many!

  Nick, owner

  

• Really Simple Tools

  domstapleton.co.uk/tools/

  This website is a collection of really simple web tools – such as an RGB-to-hexadecimal colour converter, an HTTP header checker, an image converter, a password generator and a percentage calculator. The design is deliberately as clean and as simple as possible, as it's the functionality of the tools that is most important.

  

• ByWriters

  bywriters.com

  ByWriters was a multi-author blog covering a range of subjects – from current affairs and culture, to comedy and the arts. The design was clean and modern with an emphasis on typography over imagery. It ran on WordPress, which is a popular content management system. I designed the site to be fully responsive, meaning that it adapted to fit different screen sizes.

  What can I say...? Dom has done an outstanding job on the site, really great work. He's been reliable and professional, having helped me with the most ridiculous queries I've had at all hours! Always personable, and very easy to get along with, which made bouncing ideas off each other all the easier. Most importantly, the passion he has for web design comes through in his work. I'd hire him again in an instant, so should you.

  Jordan, founder and editor

  

• Transactional emails for InsureandGo

  insureandgo.com

  In late 2015, I redesigned the transactional emails for InsureandGo, which is one of the UK's largest direct travel insurers. The emails are sent to customers when they get a quote, buy or make changes to their policy online. I designed the emails to match the company's visual identity, and with an emphasis on clear calls to action. As maximumcompatibility was important, I worked hard to make sure the emails looked right in the different email clients, many of which can be very fussy.

  

• Essex Blast Solutions

  essexblastsolutions.co.uk

  This website – for an Essex-based abrasive blasting company – included a before-and-after image slider on the homepage, a lightbox gallery and a contact form which allowed people to upload photos to send with their enquiries.

  We're really chuffed with the work Dom did on the website. It's exactly what we asked for and more.

  Jake, company director

  

• ALPAC

  alpacoctane.com

  This website – for a company which supplied network provisioning servers – used a clean and simple one-page design, with elements that fade and slide in as visitors scroll down. The website also included a simple contact form.

  

• Forcon

  forcon.co.uk

  This website – for a telecommunications company operating across Europe – was designed to advertise the company's services, and then direct potential clients to a contact form so they can get in touch. The footer of the website included a news widget which pulled live information from an RSS feed.

  We would recommend Dom's work to any company requiring a cost-effective and professional solution.

  Phil, company director

  

• DomStapleton.co.uk

  domstapleton.co.uk

  Bit of an obvious one but I also designed the website you're looking at right now. When I'm not busy on other projects, it's possible I'm making tweaks to my own website. I don't just like to think of it as a portfolio of my work – it's also a testing ground for new designs and features.

  

• Your Homepage

  domstapleton.co.uk/home/

  This was a website I made to replace the iGoogle homepage, which was discontinued in November 2013. I created it for myself and a few friends and family members who previously relied on iGoogle as their browser's homepage. Your Homepage included widgets for the local weather, RSS feeds and trending topics on Twitter. Each widget was fully customisable.

  

• Attention to detail

  Your website will look exactly as you want it, and will fit your brief perfectly.

• Cross-device optimisation

  Your website will look great on mobiles, tablets and desktops alike.

• Maximum compatibility

  Your website will look and work as it should across the different browsers.

• Search engine optimisation

  Your website will be built with SEO in mind, so it'll be easier to find on search engines.

• Standards compliance

  Your website will meet the W3C's HTML5 standards, so it's reliable and future-proof.

• High performance

  Your website will load quickly and won't keep your customers waiting.

• Content management system

  Want total control? With a CMS, you can add, edit and remove pages whenever you want.

• Email design

  Get a suite of marketing and transactional emails to match your brand.

• Excellent reviews

  Check out my work and see what my clients have said about me.

• Competitive rate

  Contact me today for a quote.

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