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Home Remodeling & Construction

A modern remodel site built to win local jobs

A to Z Building is a home remodeling and construction business. We designed and built the site, then set up the foundations it needs to be found locally.

A to Z Building — Home Remodeling & Construction
Client
A to Z Building
Live site
Currently offline

The challenge

What this site had to get right

Remodeling buyers shortlist three or four contractors and decide mostly on evidence: finished work, a real address, licence and insurance details, and a phone number that gets answered. The website has to carry all of that in the first screen, on a phone, often from a search done in a driveway.

Sites in this sector all have to get the same few things right before they can do anything else. These are the ones that shaped this build.

  • The portfolio is a lightbox of 40 untitled photos

    No scope, no budget band, no location, no before. A prospect cannot tell whether you have done their job, so they keep looking. Projects need to be structured content with their own pages, not an image dump.

  • The estimate form asks for eleven fields

    Name, email, phone, address, square footage, budget, timeline, how you heard about us. On a phone, on a Tuesday evening, that form does not get finished. Two fields and a callback converts far better.

  • One page for every town you serve

    Or worse, the same page with the town name swapped. Search has been good at spotting that for years. A service-area page earns its place when it has real projects, real permits and real specifics from that area on it.

Approach

How we worked through it

The same four stages on every project, including this one.

  1. 01

    Understand the buying decision

    Before any design, we work out who lands on the site, what they are comparing, and what has to be true for them to make contact. That conversation decides the page structure.

  2. 02

    Structure before styling

    Templates, content model and URL map first. Deciding what repeats — and who edits it — is what keeps the site cheap to run two years after launch.

  3. 03

    Design against the constraints

    Type, colour and layout are chosen with contrast, mobile width and load weight already in scope, so nothing has to be unpicked during build.

  4. 04

    Build, measure, hand over

    Semantic HTML, a performance budget, accessibility checks, analytics configured, and a handover the client's own team can work from.

What we built

The work that shipped

  • Custom Website Design
  • WordPress Development
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Custom Website Design

    A design system built for this brand rather than adapted from a theme: type scale, colour, spacing and a component set that covers every template the site needs, designed mobile-first and checked for contrast before build.

  • WordPress Development

    A WordPress build with custom post types and fields for the content that actually repeats, so the team can publish without touching layout. No page builder bloat on the front end.

  • Search Engine Optimization

    Technical foundations first — crawlability, indexation, structured data, internal linking and a URL structure that will still make sense at ten times the content — then on-page work across the money pages.

Results

On publishing results

We publish a number only when we have the client's analytics in front of us and permission to share it. For this project we have neither yet, so there are no numbers on this page.

Stack

What it runs on

  • WordPress

Every site we ship is held to the same baseline regardless of platform: a 1.4 second average largest contentful paint, a Lighthouse performance score of 95 or better, and WCAG 2.2 AA checks on the components we build.

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