02 · Website design & development

A website
that does
the work.

Designed around what your visitors need, built to be fast on every phone, and easy for you to keep up to date.

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Concept studies

The work

Studies we made for imagined brands — so you can see how we think before we work together.

The Stonehouse Retreat homepage with a large photograph of a stone doorway, a short introduction and an availability search. Concept
study

Website concept · 01 / 01

Stonehouse Retreat

A website for an imagined mountain guesthouse, designed to answer guests' questions before they need to ask.

What's included

  • Website design

    Pages laid out around what visitors come to find.

  • Development

    Hand-built, fast and accessible on every device.

  • Easy updates

    Change your text and pictures yourself, no developer needed.

  • Online shop

    Products, payments and orders when you sell online.

  • Forms & bookings

    Enquiries, bookings and sign-ups that land in your inbox.

  • Launch & care

    Set up on your hosting, then updates and fixes after launch.

How we work

  1. Plan

    What the site must do, who it’s for and which pages it needs.

  2. Design

    Phone and desktop layouts you can click through before we build.

  3. Build

    Code, content, speed and accessibility checks, page by page.

  4. Launch

    We go live together, then hand over and stay on call.

Good questions

How long does a website take?

It depends on the pages and features — we agree a timeline with you before anything starts.

Can I update it myself?

Yes. We can set up a simple way for you to edit text and pictures.

Will it work on phones?

Every page is designed for the phone first, then for bigger screens.

Let's talk

Got something
to build?

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Website concept · Concept study

Stonehouse Retreat

We imagined a small guesthouse in an old stone building whose owners spent hours each week answering the same questions by phone — rooms, directions, meals and availability.

The Stonehouse Retreat homepage with a large photograph of a stone doorway, a short introduction and an availability search.
01 / 05 Homepage — the essentials in the first screen.
The rooms page with three room cards showing photographs, capacity, price from and amenities.
02 / 05 Rooms — comparison without clicking around.
Three phone screens of the website — homepage, a room page and the directions section.
03 / 05 Designed for the phone first.
An illustrative search result for Stonehouse Retreat showing the page title, description and room details.
04 / 05 Illustrative search appearance, not a live result.
Close-up of a room card.
05 / 05 Room card detail.

Concept study. Stonehouse Retreat is a fictional guesthouse created by Z Matchbox to demonstrate a website approach — it is not a client project.

  1. Answer the real questions first

    Rooms, prices from, directions and what is included sit in the first two screens. Atmosphere comes next, not instead.

  2. Slow photography, fast pages

    Large, calm interior photographs are delivered in modern formats and sizes for each screen, so the site feels unhurried without loading slowly.

  3. Clear information for search and AI assistants

    Rooms, amenities, location and contact details are written in plain language and described with structured data, so they can be understood and quoted accurately.

What it shows

  • Content structure driven by real customer questions
  • Responsive design with performance-minded image handling
  • Search-ready structure and structured data planning
Design
Z Matchbox Company (concept)
Photography
Licensed stock photography via Magnific, used for illustration
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