Barron Surveying

Barron Surveying are just like lots of businesses in the South West, an owner run business with a couple of staff, very much like Shred. Just like many small businesses they were frustrated with their website, it had been designed a few years back by a larger Plymouth based creative agency and really needed an overhaul. We took a look at the project and found that really the team at Barron needed a site that would deliver a content-rich experience that could be updated easily. Steve, our MD, scribbled the cost on the back of a napkin and then bet the owners at Barron that the cost of the new site wouldn’t be far removed from the cost of the simple updates from the larger agency. Sure enough we got to work on the new site within days, utilising WordPress with a short-code rich template that would allow us to make it look more like a website than a glorified blog but would also allow lots of functionality for the team at Barron to update with news items.

The project wasn’t all plain sailing, the build was a little more complicated than we first thought but the evolution of the WordPress platform does mean we have to keep on top of new functionality. This can only help make sites even better and having done a lot of these sites now we are constantly impressed with the way we can deliver a high level of function for a realistic price and also teach our clients how to run these sites in less than an hour, putting sites like Barron’s back in the control of the business owner and not the creative agency.