The challenge

Orangutan Landscapes needed a simple, professional website that could showcase the range of garden work on offer across County Durham and let happy customers do the selling, without an expensive or complicated build.

The business had recently separated from another company and had no web presence of its own to carry over. That meant starting from scratch, with word of mouth as the only way new customers were finding them.

What we built

We built Orangutan Landscapes a WordPress website designed to do justice to genuinely visual work, since landscaping is a trade where photos of past projects often do more to win trust than any amount of written description. That meant:

  • A gallery and portfolio structure to showcase past landscaping projects, alongside genuine customer testimonials
  • Clear, prominent contact options so visitors could request a quote easily
  • Integration with turtl.co, where the business already had the majority of its project portfolio, rather than starting that content from scratch
  • A dedicated services page setting out the full range of work on offer, from tree pruning and patio building to fence repair and garden pond construction
  • A site built to work well on mobile, since many homeowners research landscaping work casually, often while browsing on a phone in the evening

The result

Since launching, Orangutan Landscapes has been receiving between 5 and 10 enquiries a month, a steady stream of new leads from homeowners who found them through the new website rather than word of mouth alone.

Why this approach works for landscaping and garden businesses

Orangutan Landscapes reflects something true of most visual trades: the website's main job is to get out of the way of the photography. Clean layout, fast loading images, and an easy path to enquire, built around letting the actual work speak for itself, tend to outperform anything more elaborate.

FAQs

How long did the Orangutan Landscapes website take to build?

The Orangutan Landscapes website was built and launched in 7 working days, from initial brief to going live.

What package did Orangutan Landscapes choose?

Orangutan Landscapes chose our Business package, since they needed the ability to add their own testimonials and photos as new projects were completed, rather than being limited to a fixed set of pages.