Barefoot Web

Based just off the London Road in Brighton, Barefoot Web has served businesses in Brighton, Hove and the wider Sussex area since 2009. The studio works with small and medium-sized businesses, with a particular focus on the e-commerce sector, and describes itself as an affordable option for clients seeking web design alongside branding and digital strategy support. The agency builds websites on WordPress, Joomla, Shopify and Squarespace, offering web development, e-commerce development, brand identity and logo design, user experience design, website hosting, SEO, PPC management, digital strategy and planning, and email marketing. Its stated web design process runs through four stages: discovery, where it establishes a client's goals, audience and SEO requirements and gathers visual inspiration; wireframing, producing wireframes, moodboards and visual mockups for feedback; development, building the homepage first followed by subpages according to the wireframe hierarchy; and testing, where a demo version is refined, checked across browsers and quality-controlled before the site goes live. Barefoot Web states it started as an SEO agency, and it applies this background to building fast-loading, precisely coded, SEO-efficient sites. Its e-commerce design work is described as combining visual design with a conversion-focused shopping experience, illustrated by a project for Phytality Supergreens. The agency also offers one-on-one website training and states that its work is carbon offset via C Level.