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Home and Garden Web Design Services

Web design and development that helps home & garden businesses bloom

Does your home and garden brand need a new website that shows your business at its best? That wins your business visibility in search and AI engines, while also charming customers and guiding them carefully from browsing to purchasing? We can help!

Whether you’re taking your first steps into eCommerce or refreshing your existing site to capture new customers, we can design a website that will ensure success for years to come!

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Why Choose The Digital Maze?

We have over 15 years of experience supporting Home & Garden eCommerce businesses with their digital marketing. This means we understand your audience and know how to build websites that rise above competitors and convince customers to choose you.

Based in Derby, we design and develop responsive, user-friendly websites that look amazing and perform even better. We don’t get caught up in eye-catching fads that hamper performance, but bring a flash of innovation to tested techniques to make sure your website design always delivers.

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  • 15+ years partnering with Home & Garden brands.
  • Proven track record of increasing online revenue through data-led marketing strategies and creative campaigns.
  • Extensive development and marketing experience with platforms like WordPress, WooCommerce & Shopify.
  • Google & Bing Ad Certified

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What Matters in Web Design for Home & Garden Brands?

In a large, fast-moving and highly competitive sector, it can be hard for businesses to stand out from the crowd. Whether you’re a landscape gardener, interior decorator or ecommerce store owner, appearing high up in the search results can make a huge difference.

High search volume, high competition

Your customers will often turn to the web when it comes to home and garden inspiration, whether they’re looking for a new patio furniture set or for someone to install new windows and doors. So, there’s a significant amount of search volume for home and garden queries… but also plenty of competition to match.

If you’re not ranking for keywords that show high purchase intent, it’s likely your competitors are, and you’re almost certainly losing out to them on sales. Finding the right keywords and ranking opportunities (and creating content to satisfy them) is vital for standing out in a crowded market.

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A seamless user experience

The user experience (UX) of your website can dictate its success.

Does this sound extreme? Research shows that 40% of users leave a webpage if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. It doesn’t matter how persuasive your copy is, how strong your branding is, or even how much traffic is being driven to your site by your marketing – a 40% bounce rate would mean almost half your potential customers are lost before your site even loads.

At The Digital Maze, we build our websites with UX in mind, making sure no unnecessary friction points deter customers from purchasing.

A responsive website

Impressing customers is no longer just about having a delightful desktop experience. Around 75% of UK online orders are now made using mobile devices, which means you need a website that performs as brilliantly on a small smartphone screen as it does on a laptop or desktop computer.

We test all our website builds on mobile devices before launch to make sure they are fully responsive and give the same excellent experience, whichever devices visitors are using.

A content management system (CMS) that suits you

The unique needs of your home and garden business mean that not all content management systems will work for you. The features and functionality of different CMSs will suit different businesses and different customer bases, and getting the correct one for your website is vital.

Our expert team of web developers have experience creating websites on all major content management systems, including WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify. We can help you identify which platform will have the most features you need, or rebuild using the CMS you’re most familiar with if you’d prefer.

Being optimised for search engines and AI search

The way your target audience finds your business online is always evolving. In 2026, the best way to stand out against competitors is to appear high in search engine rankings and earn mentions in AI search – but this is easier said than done!

As a full-service digital marketing agency, our expertise extends beyond website design. Our SEO team can help optimise your website for organic visibility across all types of search, to make sure it drives traffic as well as conversions. Read more about our SEO services for home and garden businesses here.

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Our Web Design Services for Home & Garden Businesses

eCommerce Web Design

We specialise in web design for eCommerce home and garden businesses, so we know how to deliver websites with serious selling power. From a seamless user experience to effective conversion rate optimisation, we’ll maximise the results your website delivers.

UX Audits

Unsure if your website is the reason you’re losing out on conversions? With our in-depth UX audits, we’ll uncover any friction points to make sure visitors can travel seamlessly from discovery to purchase.

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WooCommerce Website Design

If you’re looking for a site built with WooCommerce, we’re a Woo Pro Partner so we have exclusive access to extra resources provided by WooCommerce. This means you won’t just gain from our own extensive experience, but their most innovative features and advanced platform developments too.

Our Approach

Discussion

Every business is unique, and we only work towards your specific goals, so we’ll start your web design project with a meeting. Our designers, developers and project managers will meet with your team to discover what you want from your website.

Planning

Next our web developers, designers and marketing team will put together a site plan. This covers key pages and functionality, to make sure we understand the brief and are meeting your objectives.

Design

Our web design team will begin bringing your vision to life by building the initial visual prototypes of key templates. As the site begins to take shape, you’ll have a chance to discuss progress with our designers and project manager, addressing any concerns with well-documented rounds of feedback throughout the website development process.

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Copywriting

When it comes to driving organic traffic and conversions, your website copy is your secret weapon. Reusing old, tired content is a guaranteed way to drag down a new website and limit the benefits it brings. Our experienced team of copywriters will refresh your content, either starting from scratch or editing and optimising your own efforts, to make sure your new site is as engaging and persuasive as possible, as well as being optimised for search intent.

Development

When you are happy with the visuals, our web development team will start translating them into your new site. They will start with a staging site to ensure key functionality is built in and give you a chance to give in-depth feedback or additional information to your project manager.

Testing & Launch

After your site is signed off, we start moving our comprehensive list of pre-launch checks to make sure your site goes live in the best condition possible. Various members of our team are involved to make sure nothing is missed from an SEO or web development perspective, and only once we’re completely confident will your site be launched.

Reviewing

Even after launch, we will continue to check and observe your site to ensure no issues pop up that impair its performance. We’ll also still be on hand to answer your questions and provide ongoing support.

FAQs

Most businesses in the home and garden sector redesign their websites every 2-3 years. This is a good rough guide, but other factors will impact whether this is necessary for your business or not.

If your website is constantly being worked on, improved, and refreshed, then a complete re-design might not be necessary. Similarly, if you launch a new website and leave it untouched, after only one year, your site may start to feel clunky and outdated, and its performance in driving traffic and conversions will be less than optimal.

In web design and development, the 3-second rule states that your site must catch a visitor’s attention and convey its value within the first 3 seconds of their landing on your page.

Research shows that when this doesn’t happen, visitors will leave the site without a purchase and likely not come back. Those first 3 seconds are vital for making a good impression, so your design, page loading speeds and content all need to be on point.

The three most important factors in a website’s success are its design, its content and its performance. And it is not enough to focus on just one of these factors – you need to nail all three equally if you want to maximise the benefits your website brings.

If your website looks incredible but is slow to load, your user journey is confusing, or your content is thin and lacks coherence or persuasiveness, you will lose purchases as visitors will leave your site at the first friction point and visit your competitor instead.

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