Hanneson Creative

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Website design that turns visitors into customers

Your website should do more than look good—it should build trust, drive conversions, and support real business growth. We create modern, high-performing websites designed with strategy, usability, and long-term success in mind.

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Visually Stunning.
Exceptionally Effective.
Thoughtfully Designed.

Your website is often the first impression your business makes.

We design custom websites that combine visual impact with strategic functionality—helping your business attract the right audience, communicate clearly, and convert visitors into customers.

Whether you need a new website or a full redesign, every project is built with purpose, performance, and scalability in mind.

This is ideal for...

From leading brands to startups, we partner with you to help elevate your digital presence and achieve long-term success.

As a creative agency, our team has a wide-range of capabilities. You can select add-ons to include in our web design process like brand strategy and guidelines, logo and graphic design, custom images and videos, eCommerce functionality and SEO services.

Our standard scopes for web design often include:

Our Process

Our proven website design process is highly collaborative and unique to each of our clients, refined over our three decades in business and informed by UI/UX best practices, analytics data, and a deep understanding of your business and the needs and desires of your customers.

As we dive into your project, this initial phase begins with a discovery meeting and in-depth research. We take time to understand your organization, industry, competitors, and goals, while also identifying your customers’ needs and expectations.

After gathering insights, we collaborate with key stakeholders to further define your business objectives, brand standards, online strategy, desired interactions, critical functionalities, and user behaviors. This phase helps establish a clear and informed foundation for your website.

With a strong understanding of your business and audience, we develop a strategic blueprint for your website.

We conduct a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) audit of your current site and establish a baseline for performance. From there, we create and present key planning materials, including a sitemap, wireframes, mood boards, and core page structures.

Together, we refine page hierarchy, user flow, interactions, and content direction. We also establish the visual direction through a finalized stylescape, ensuring alignment before moving into design.

Once strategy is approved, we move into design and development.

We set up hosting, configure the database, implement your Content Management System (CMS), and integrate any necessary plugins or third-party Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools.

We then design and develop a working prototype that incorporates your brand identity, visual direction, and content. Strong content plays a critical role in achieving your communication and business goals, so we ensure everything is aligned and purposeful.

A SEO foundation is also implemented during this phase. After your team reviews the prototype, we conduct thorough quality assurance and apply final refinements.

To ensure a seamless user experience, we perform rigorous testing across browsers, devices, and environments. This includes performance optimization, speed testing, security checks, and compliance validation.

After final approvals, we coordinate your launch.

We install analytics and tracking tools, complete a final SEO audit, and run comprehensive pre-launch checks. Once everything is confirmed, we deploy your website to a live environment.

We also provide training to ensure your team is fully equipped to manage and update your new site with confidence.

After launch, we continue to support your website’s growth.

This may include ongoing maintenance, performance monitoring, SEO improvements, content updates, and strategic enhancements to ensure your site continues to evolve with your business.

Our Approach

We take a collaborative, research-driven approach to planning your Website and UX Strategy.

A Strategic Digital Blueprint

With a focused digital brand strategy, we align your marketing efforts and lay the groundwork for a website that not only attracts but also engages your ideal audience.

Why Website Strategy Matters...

Skipping strategy often leads to:

A well-defined strategy ensures:

FAQs

”FAQs”

Most projects take 4–10 weeks depending on complexity, content readiness, and project scope. A typical timeline includes Discovery & Strategy for weeks 1-2, Design & Revisions for weeks 3-4, Development & Testing for weeks 5-6, Launch & Training for weeks 7-8. We'll give you a clear timeline before we begin.

Yes. We often work with businesses that need to improve an outdated site without starting from scratch strategically.

Yes. We build on user-friendly CMS platforms and provide training so your team can confidently manage content.

Yes. We offer monthly support & maintenance plans that include backups, security updates, plugin management, content updates, and performance monitoring. You can also book hourly support for one-off changes.

We can assist with content strategy, messaging guidance, and copy refinement to ensure your website communicates clearly and effectively.

Absolutely. Every website is designed responsively for desktop, tablet, and mobile users.

Templates are pre-made and used by thousands of other businesses — they save money upfront but limit differentiation and scalability. Custom design is built around your unique brand, content, and user needs. It takes more time and investment but delivers higher conversions, stronger branding, and long-term flexibility.

FAQs

Yes. Strategy ensures your website is structured correctly before visual decisions are made, leading to better performance and fewer revisions.

Strategy defines what the website should do and how it’s organized. UX/UI focuses on how it looks and feels when users interact with it.

Absolutely. We can audit your current site and create a strategy to improve structure, content, and performance.

Yes. We incorporate SEO best practices into your site structure and content planning from the start.

Absolutely. We build custom websites with you in mind. You'll receive training sessions, written guides, and video tutorials so you can confidently update text, images, and basic layouts without needing to code or hire us for every small change.

Yes. We offer monthly support & maintenance plans that include backups, security updates, plugin management, content updates, and performance monitoring. You can also book hourly support for one-off changes.

Most projects take 4–8 weeks, depending on complexity. A typical timeline includes:

  • Week 1–2: Discovery & strategy

  • Week 3–5: Design & revisions

  • Week 6–7: Development & testing

  • Week 8: Launch & training

We'll give you a clear timeline before we begin.

Yes on both counts. Mobile responsiveness is non-negotiable — your site will look and function beautifully on phones, tablets, and desktops. We also handle on-page SEO basics (meta tags, headings, image alt text, site speed) so you start with a solid foundation.

Templates are pre-made and used by thousands of other businesses — they save money upfront but limit differentiation and scalability. Custom design is built around your unique brand, content, and user needs. It takes more time and investment but delivers higher conversions, stronger branding, and long-term flexibility.

If you have a project in mind and are ready to get started today, visit the interactive New Project Questionnaire on our Contact page.

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