How a site gets built
One project, start to finish. Forge & Ember is a steakhouse we made up to show the process. The steps are the same for a clinic, a shop or a builder.
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Understand
Start with what the customer needs to do.
Before any visuals, we list the questions a visitor arrives with and the one action the site has to make easy. For a steakhouse: what’s on the menu, what does it feel like, and can I get a table on Friday?
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Structure
Draw the path, not the decoration.
The page gets sketched as a route: first impression, menu, a feel for the room, then booking. Every block earns its place by moving someone closer to the table.
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Design
Bend the brand around the structure.
Colour, type and photography go on last and follow the route. Here that meant fire-lit darks, warm brass and a serif with some swagger.
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Launch
Switch it on.
Built responsive from the first line, checked on real phones, then launched. The booking button stays the easiest thing to find at every screen size.