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Web Design Bristol Fashion


Designer Andy Gardner & Co

Welcome to web design Bristol fashion by local web designer, Andy Gardner! We look forward to hearing from you about your next web or design project…

Our Website Portfolio

View recent clients brief and results in our web design portfolio. Only a small selection of our works are here, please get in touch to see something specific.

Web Design Services

Get dedicated design consultation on how your website could be designed and built better. Get a feel for our design process and how we can help you.

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Bristol based Web Design

We mainly design websites for clients in Bristol, Bath and the South West. Our portfolio contains businesses further afield, including exotic locales such as Portugal, Borneo, and Scotland, but generally these have some connection to Bristol.

Responsive Web Design Bristol across multiple screens

Web Design for Small Business

We solve website problems through design and we deliver for all manner of business sectors in Bristol. As a design agency the variety of work this allows us to engage in keeps things interesting! We have catered for most business website needs.

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Branding and Logo Design

We’ve helped established businesses refresh their branding design as well as their web design and love designing logos for start-ups. If you need the help of a designer with your branding direction please get in touch!

Client logos of Andy Gardner Web design

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An Introduction

Andy Gardner Web Design has been building websites out of Bristol for 10 years. Our trio of Bristol website designers build sites that engage users. You can see from our portfolio that we favour clear bold interfaces that allow the user journey through our client websites to be simple and direct. We also help clients with branding, digital marketing, long term maintenance and training.

“Patient, flexible and creative, Andy has created a fantastic new website for our Practice that reflects our house style and showcases our experience and expertise. Thanks very much Andy!”

Gemma Melvill, The Landmark Practice


Designing your website

Content – care needs to go into the ingredients of a good website…

Written content on your website

Websites are mostly written content. That content ranges from long form text like a 300-word description of your services to the micro-copy that might be three words on a button. Text is all important in reaching your reader. And much like an individual, your website copy has a ‘voice’. You would like your customers to listen to that voice, and it helps to be clear and consistent. We’ll help you find that voice. Here’s a couple of pointers. Short sentences convert better! You should also stick to the first or third person for example.

Joyful Elements

We seek to put little elements that delight users into our project where your brand allows. Some examples:

  • On the contact page of a site for surfers; the form reacts to users clicking on the fields with a subtle wave.
  • Or the parallax scrolling on the Totterdown houses midway down their colours filling up like ink cartridges only on user scroll.

It’s important that quirks like these are at the users discretion. We don’t want them busily animating away when the user is trying to look at something else. They also need to be true to your brand and only reinforce and speak to the purpose of the website.

Social Proof

Social proof like testimonials, accreditation and client logos to be put in line with copy in a context sensitive manner to back up claims in copy and simplify user journey through site.

Great Graphics, Photos & Video

Your visitors will always conflate image quality with business quality. We make sure you put your best foot forward with high quality imagery. We encourage our clients to include pictures of themselves and their offices. Transparency really helps build trust with users. Smiling faces also help with engagement! We sometimes run into a little bit of reluctance to ‘be published’ but it does help make your organisation become more relateable. Videos can help make your service easier to understand. We work with excellent photographers if you don’t have professionals at hand.

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Our Recent Press

...our latest adventures in web design
  • Three quick ways you can speed up your website
    Speed kills! Lack of speed when it comes to websites. No-one wants to hang around waiting for a slow website to load. It is incredibly frustrating and most people do not have the time or patience to wait. Research shows anything over 1 second load time will affect conversion rates of your website....
  • What is the “user journey” through your website?
    User journey is an important web design concept. Its simplest expression is the steps a user takes through your website. From where users arrive on your website, to the pages they look at, to where they leave. It is an effective visualisation tool for what your users might do on your website. These user...
  • Take off for Ascent Flight Training website
    Another high flying website designed for the Andy Gardner Web Design team! This time the fantastic opportunity came our way to design the website for Ascent Flight Training. Ascent train all the pilots in the RAF, Royal Navy and Army. You may know that amongst other things we enjoy photography, hiking...
  • People may be warned about visiting your website
    Website owners, you may recently have had emails about “unsecured website warnings”. There’s a 50:50 chance this issue does affect your website. So what exactly is happening and how can you fix it? Well users of the the Google Chrome browser will soon receive a warning about ‘insecure’...
  • Designing the Air Ambulance Charity website
    The Great Western Air Ambulance Charity were there when my family needed them. So, whilst all our charity endeavours feel like important contributions, it’s especially satisfying to help GWAAC build their new website. GWAAC is funded solely by donations, and the website needs to do a better job...
  • Working with Bristol Pound
    We’re happy to announce we’re working with the Bristol Pound to develop their new website. We’ve been business members of the Bristol Pound for several years, and the opportunity to help with their own website is something we jumped at the chance of. Adam and the £B team have been...
  • Medical Website Design for MMH
    Overall the goal is to maintain the MMH brand image at a level consistent with current and future performance. With an audience of healthcare providers and Clinical Commissioning Groups and practice staff this medical site needed very specific appeal. These demographics are all time starved and benefit...
  • Great graphics make great websites
    Users will always conflate image quality with business quality. Look at any well designed website and chances are good design is being supported by great photos and videos. Truly amazing photography needs little embellishment to craft a convincing website. However, it’s hard to come by. The easy...
  • Responsive web design: a 2016 retrospective
    This year saw something of a sea change with clients asking us about responsive web design. True, responsive design has been best practice for some years now. However, in years past it was us making the case for more flexible, mobile and tablet friendly websites to clients. This year, it has noticeably...
  • Haulage website design and build live
    Our latest website is for Bristol’s best heavy haulage firm! They working with amazing machinery that can transport up to 250tonne tractors or huge wind turbines. We get to see some amazing local businesses when learning about our clients. Their equipment bursts off the page on their new site.
  • Why you should secure your website with SSL
    SSL is a technology that encrypts everything between your browser and the website you are looking at. Not every website has SSL, but there’s a way you can tell which ones do! Every site with an SSL certificate will have a little padlock in your browser bar, whatever your browser…
  • Recruitment Web Design & Branding for PRFS
    After taking them through a brand refresh, we designed the website for Bristol based Professional Recruitment. We built in the jobs board that powers their online presence. As leading financial recruitment specialists they still have many subsectors, and naturally placement across the UK, so the jobs...

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  • Thank you for the excellent website

    Pete Cannard, cannard Computing Ltd

    I’d like to thank you for the excellent website and all the hard work you put in. We are really pleased with the end result and I am currently getting all our documentation to reflect the new branding. It is very encouraging to know that we have you as our website designer.

  • Worth his weight in gold!

    Sarah Pavey, AVCT

    Having worked with web designers previously I know an absolute gem when I meet one and I’ve no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Andy as an excellent web designer and absolutely worth his weight in gold!

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