web & digital

Website Design in Sheffield

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Founded in 1999, Vivid Creative is a leading website design and development agency based in Sheffield, UK.

Our team of expert designers, marketeers and developers work seamlessly, and with creative authority, to ensure that your website stays on-brand. This is where web design strategy meets performance.

A website that acts as a business tool – creating enquiries and revenue – and not just a shop window. We use industry best practices, coding standards, and technology to achieve accessible, search-engine friendly websites that produce measurable results.

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Web Design, Strategy and Scoping

Our digital workshops are designed to explore the potential, and needs of your web presence, and to inspire our website design and content scoping. We can also use customer questionnaires to map out and build a custom site that really delivers and performs for users.

 

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UX and UI Web Design

With a modular approach that builds upwards from the smallest of touchpoints, we make the most of every chance to connect with your website users.

What makes our sites effective is real attention to detail. So we keep in mind the objective of holding visitors’ attention and compelling them to act. It makes for an experience that translates into sales, sign-ups, and return visits.

Web Development

Our web development team works with the latest technology to deliver modern websites that convert.

The range of technology we can blend includes our own bespoke MorphCode™ CMS, which allows us to create a system that’s easily managed and maintained, giving you complete control.

Sites can be built to smoothly integrate with e-commerce platforms. For e-commerce websites, we use Magento for its flexibility and limitless capacity to add.

 

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Our Website Design Process

1. Website review

We review your exiting site to identify areas of weakness and potential for improvement. 

2. Scoping

We work with you to understand your goals, market and user needs, putting in a place a plan to achieve your requirements

3. UX design

We plan, draft, and prototype a solution based on the up-front scoping of your project.

4. Creative application

We craft and apply beautiful creative to your website, perfectly in-keeping with, but elevating your brand presence online.

5. Development

We build your website, using the right technology for the task, using our MorphCode™ CMS system to allow you full control.

6. Content

We can produce compelling assets – animation, photography & video, interactive features and more. With knockout content everything falls into place.

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Andy Irvine - Partner, Shorts Chartered Accountants

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A great team with real skill, commitment and specialist knowledge. They have helped take our marketing to a whole new level. Highly Recommended !

Edward Thatcher - CEO, Endeavor 

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Working with Vivid Creative and Gerry has been an absolute pleasure. To help sustain and grow our charitable work, we deliver team development and leadership programmes to commercial businesses. Over recent months Gerry and the Vivid team have generously provided pro-bono support to strengthen our branding, communications and reach into this market.

George Burtoft - Sustainability Analyst ​​​

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We wanted to completely revamp our old sustainability brochure, and tasked Vivid to create a new strategy document from scratch. Vivid perfectly captured our brand’s vision and turned our long-complicated text and statistics into a stunning, visual, easy to follow document. We’ve received fantastic feedback from our customers, and we couldn’t be happier with the final result!

Giles Polito - Fractional Marketing Director

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I have worked with Gerry and the Vivid team for over 20 years and would recommend them to businesses who want to elevate their brand and drive growth. They are creative and commercial in a very balanced way. They know when the project needs greater creative flare and know when to really focus on ROI. From a Bridgedale repositioning to Rohan retained campaign work and Cycle King digital marketing, the Vivid have always delivered.

Jonathan Billing - Head of Strategic Marketing, Jigsaw24

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I've worked with Vivid for a number of years and they've always delivered.

Maria Piastre - VP, Commercial and Trading

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Had the most amazing experience working with Vivid as our marketing agency during my tenure as CEO of Metallix Refining. They are able to interpret and showcase your brand on a creative, engaging and innovative way. Would not hesitate engaging them over and over again.

Mel Pengelly - Managing Director, AIT3CH

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I have been working with Vivid for over 18 months now. I sat with Gerry and his team to create our branding and website from the outset of my AI startup. Having a marketing background myself I knew how hard it was to find a company that actually listens and interprets your needs. Well I found them. Vivid Media. Branding helps create not just an image of a company but sets out what journey for that company if it’s done right.

Robert Newton - Head of Marketing, Symphony Group PLC

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Gerry, Jon, Ben and the wider team at Vivid has been helping drive forward our marketing activities for many years now. Their creativity, design ideas, branding and all round marketing support has really elevated our brands. Thanks to the team there for all your great work.

Scott Devonshire - Marketing Director, DURO Yokota

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The highest quality marketing agency. Creative, knowledgeable, confident in taking you in the direction you need to go, deliver results that can drive your company forward as they have done with mine. Highly recommended to anyone looking to take their marketing to the next level, or starting from scratch - either to use Vivid as a sole external source or to work along side an existing marketing team.

Steve Davidson - Digital Marketing Manager, Close Brothers 

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I had the pleasure of working with Vivid Creative during my time at Close Brothers, and I can confidently say the team consistently delivered exceptional work across every campaign we collaborated on. Their creativity, responsiveness, and attention to detail made them a trusted extension of our marketing function. From campaign support through to delivery, the Vivid team always brought fresh ideas, strong strategic thinking, and a genuine commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes.

Website Design Frequently Asked Questions

  • What makes a good business website?

    A good business website is clear, easy to use and built around the needs of its audience. It should explain what the business does, guide visitors towards useful actions and work well across desktop and mobile devices. Strong websites combine strategy, design, content, user experience and technical performance.

  • Why is website strategy important before design begins?

    Website strategy gives the project a clear direction before any design or development work starts. It helps define the audience, objectives, page structure, content priorities and user journeys, so the finished website supports the wider business and marketing goals rather than simply looking good.

  • What does a website design agency do?

    A website design agency plans, designs and builds websites that support business objectives and customer needs. This can include discovery, user experience planning, content structure, visual design, development, testing, launch support and ongoing optimisation.

  • How is website design different from website development?

    Website design focuses on how the site looks, feels and functions for users, including layout, navigation, visual style and content presentation. Website development turns that design into a working site, dealing with code, performance, integrations, content management and technical delivery.

  • What is user experience in website design?

    User experience, often called UX, is about making a website simple and intuitive for people to use. It considers how visitors move through the site, what information they need, where they may get stuck and how easily they can complete an action such as making an enquiry or finding key information.

  • Why is responsive website design important?

    Responsive website design ensures a site works properly across different screen sizes and devices. Since people may visit from mobiles, tablets, laptops and desktops, a responsive site helps create a consistent experience and reduces the risk of users leaving because the site is difficult to use.

  • How does a website support digital strategy?

    A website is often the centre of a digital strategy because it connects brand, content, campaigns, search, data and customer experience. A well-planned site can help generate enquiries, explain services, support campaigns and give users a clear path from interest to action.

  • What should be included in a website project?

    A website project usually includes discovery, site planning, user journey mapping, content structure, design, development, testing and launch. Depending on the brief, it may also include copywriting, SEO, analytics setup, integrations, accessibility checks and ongoing optimisation.

  • When should a business redesign its website?

    A business should consider redesigning its website when the current site no longer reflects the brand, performs poorly, is difficult to update, does not work well on mobile or fails to support marketing and sales activity. A redesign should be based on clear objectives rather than change for its own sake.

  • How do you measure whether a website is successful?

    Website success should be measured against the goals set at the start of the project. Useful measures can include enquiries, conversions, engagement, search visibility, page speed, user journeys, content performance and the quality of leads generated through the site.