Off Wix, onto a site they own
Zenders is a European-styled café and events venue, and they wanted a site that felt like the place does when you walk in. It was running on Wix, which is a fine place to start and, eventually, a ceiling, because the design can only go so far and the site is always rented rather than owned.
What we did
We moved them onto WordPress with a design built from scratch, their own typography, palette and photography direction, then dedicated pages for every side of the business, café, weddings, corporate, celebrations, funerals and events. It runs on a page builder for the everyday editing, with custom code where the design called for more than a builder gives you. Table booking, a Matterport 3D tour of the venue, event ticketing and secure enquiry forms are all built in.
The result
A site with the same feel as walking into the venue, that the team run themselves day to day, and that they own outright rather than rent from a closed platform. Every part of the business has its own clear way in, and bookings and enquiries look after themselves.
What to take from it
A template platform gets you live quickly, and then quietly becomes the limit of what your site can be. Moving to something you own starts to pay off the moment the site needs to feel like you, rather than like the template everyone else started from.
