New Website 7-page Design & Development

We're looking for a senior WordPress designer/developer to design and build a new website for a specialist advisory business serving private capital investors, family offices, boards, C-suite executives and other senior professional audiences. This is a relatively straightforward WordPress/Divi build. Several functional elements already exist on another website and can be replicated or adapted, including the research filtering structure and other relevant functionality. We will provide the final copy, research taxonomy, brand assets, audience definition and access to the existing reference implementations. Bulk research-content populating will be handled internally. We need someone with strong visual judgment who can take the audience, business proposition and content we provide and turn them into a sophisticated, well-structured website. We expect the selected designer to bring their own expertise to the information hierarchy, page structure and user journey. **Scope The site will have seven principal designed pages: * Home * About * Services * Insights * Track Record * Contact, which is very light: hero, address/social links and embedded Google Map * A dedicated 'Legacy Business A' page There will also need to be a reusable template for individual research posts. The site should include: * responsive desktop, tablet and mobile design * a research library of approximately 47 items using a filtering plugin we already own, which filters by Date, Type and Topic * reusable research-post template * gated access to selected research * email verification for gated reports * enquiry and follow/newsletter forms * cookie/GDPR controls, CAPTCHA and normal spam protection * technically sound SEO and search/discovery setup, including appropriate treatment of AI search and agent crawlers * administrator handover so our team can make normal content changes without developer support There is no ecommerce, membership system, booking system or bespoke software requirement. ** Design standard Design quality is central to the appointment. The site needs to feel restrained, sophisticated and credible for a senior institutional audience, with strong typography, generous spacing, disciplined use of imagery and a premium boutique-advisory feel. The successful applicant will be expected to interpret the audience and brief and propose the appropriate website structure, information hierarchy and visual treatment. We will provide: * logo * colour palette * brand materials * final page copy * audience definition * research taxonomy for the filter * access to relevant existing functionality and reference implementations ** WordPress / Divi WordPress is already installed as part of our hosting package. We have a preference for Divi 5 because our internal team needs to be able to make routine copy, image, service and research updates easily after handover. **Applicants who can include a valid Divi 5 licence within the fixed project price will have an advantage.** Please identify any other paid licences or recurring costs your proposed solution would require. ** Timing We need somebody who can start immediately, preferably on **Sunday, 27 September**. Our target is: * first strong design direction within 1 business day of receiving the required materials * rapid design review by Zoom/screen share * next-business-day turnaround on consolidated design feedback * full site live by **7 October 2026** Reliable overlap with **UK afternoon hours** is essential during the design and revision stage. Please state specifically what hours you can normally be available between approximately **1pm and 6pm UK time**. Please apply only if your current workload allows you to prioritise the project immediately. ** Budget **US$300 fixed price. This is the maximum budget.** If you cannot complete the stated scope within US$300, ** please do not apply**. Please do not submit a $300 proposal and then attempt to increase the price after application, make the price conditional on an introductory call, or propose a substantially different budget after discussion. ** Application questions Please ensure that you answer EVERY question here: 1. Give 2 to 3 live examples of advisory, investment, professional-services, research-led or similarly senior B2B websites that you personally designed or materially led. State your exact role on each. 2. Based on the audience described above, how would you approach the visual design, information hierarchy and user journey of this website? Please explain your own thinking. 3. How would you approach the research-library, filtering and gated-research requirements described above? We want to understand your proposed approach and reasoning. 4. State your estimated total working hours, earliest start date, the UK-afternoon hours you can normally cover, number of included design revision rounds and post-launch defect/warranty period. 5. Do you work alone or with a team? If others are involved, explain who handles design, development and QA, and who will remain directly accountable to us throughout the project. ** Shortlisting process We will shortlist **three applicants**. Only those three applicants will receive the detailed project specification and be invited to a Zoom meeting before the final appointment. Please do not ask us to arrange a Zoom call, discovery call or introductory meeting before shortlisting. We will not be holding calls with applicants outside the final three. Generic proposals that simply repeat this advert will not help your application. We are looking for relevant design evidence, judgment, realistic scheduling and clear ownership of delivery.