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Bespoke Website Development

Stunning websites that drive direct bookings

Are you looking to take your web presence to the next level? Our bespoke websites power some of the leading hospitality businesses.

We follow a user-centric process which puts the target persona at the heart of our creative decisions.

We have a very special job. Our role is to beautifully combine both function and form. Which is more important? Just ask us, and we’ll take you through our approach.

In hospitality and travel, we have the exciting challenge of portraying brand value while delivering the optimal path through the guest buyers cycle. It is only by truly understanding how and why your particular users act in certain ways, will you create a customer journey that converts? Empathy is a theme that runs throughout all our project, both with your target audience and your business, and comes from our origins as a hotel company and as intrepid travellers ourselves.

We have removed ourselves from the world of page builders and templates. The reason for this is that they lack consistency and limit your ability to scale.

We are so pleased with the new Bromley Court Hotel site. It has made a huge improvement to our guests’ experience and journey through the site

– Mariola Paszko, Revenue and Marketing Manager

  • Cross device compatability

    The website will work seamlessly on all devices.

  • Data-driven design

    Our creative process draws from data across our entire network.

  • Integrations

    Deeply integrated with third parties such as tracking and booking engines.

  • Wordpress CMS

    We leverage the most popular CMS on the internet. Over 40% of the internet is.

  • Lightning Fast Code

    We create beautiful, lightweight code to ensure lightning load speeds.

  • High Scalable

    Our websites are scalable and designed to adapt and evolve with your business.

Trusted by these companies for website development

1

Research and Scoping

  • Innovation Workshop

  • User Research

  • Competitor Analysis

2

Prototyping

  • Customer Journey Map

  • Wireframing

  • Funnel Design

3

Design Renders

  • Style Guides

  • Mobile and Desktop Design

  • Interactive Prototypes

4

Bespoke Development

  • Modular code design

  • Super-fast & scalable code

  • Integrations

5

Optimisation and Setup

  • SEO of content

  • Asset optimisation

  • Page setup

6

Testing and Launch

  • Quality assurance

  • Cross-device testing

  • Domain mapping & launch

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1 – Research and Scoping

Drawing from Inbound Marketing and Growth-Driven Design methodologies, in the scoping session we explore commercial goals, develop unique buyer personas, establish key user flows and begin to deeply understand the brand.

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2 – Prototyping

The buyer personas directly guide the user flow to draw people from landing page to conversion. This user flow is made up of multiple micro-conversions, which are carefully considered ahead of rendered designs.

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3 – Design Renders

Our award-winning design team works closely with you to turn the wireframes into responsive renders. We draw from 200+ websites, a decade of experience and millions of data points to strategically integrate your brand into a design.

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4 – Bespoke Development

Our development team will turn your design into a living, breathing website. We use the very latest in web technologies to ensure it is fast, flexible and a truly bespoke website. Umi also bakes in a powerful combination of additional hotel marketing tools.

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5 – Content Optimisation and Setup

Umi optimises your content to align with a specific keyword strategy, drawing from buyer personas and commercial goals. The team also optimises all assets and sets up the pages within the content management system.

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6 – Testing and Launch

A rigorous testing phase ensures every aspect of your website is ready for public consumption and, once all the tracking and redirects are implemented, we let fly!

The launch is just the beginning…

Total hotel website optimisation for traffic generation and conversion rate to maximise direct bookings

Your website is your 24-hour salesperson and the end-point for all your marketing activities. Simply put, it is the most important piece of sales real estate you have. As a result, it needs constant attention and optimisation to make sure it works hard for you and your business.

Once launched, Umi can support your business by becoming an extension of your marketing team to help deliver the following services:

Reach out to our team to discuss website development

One of our team will be in touch within 24 hours.