Step by Step Partnership Umbraco Website Design and Web Development

We have been working with Step by Step Partnership on the design and development of a new Umbraco website for the Hampshire based youth charity!

Founded in 1987, Step by Step delivers youth homelessness services that go beyond providing a roof over someone's head. Step by Step empowers young people to build brighter futures through safe accommodation, emotional wellbeing support, and life-changing opportunities. 40 years on from Bridget Crowther's foundation of Step by Step in the early nineteen eighties, the Step by Step Partnership is now a leading youth charity, empowering young people across the South of England to overcome adversity and realise their full potential.

"The new website is performing exceptionally! Organic Search is CRUSHING IT! Up 71%! We're so pleased and impressed with such dramatic figures - thanks again for all your work - smashed it!" Step by Step

The new website we've designed for Step by Step has been developed upon the Umbraco Content Management System (CMS). We developed a ground up customised Umbraco CMS to the Step by Step website's requirements.

"Step by Step's new branding has a very scratchy and rough feel to the edges and a strong colour palette. Designing this into the new website whilst keeping the website accessible and engaging was a real challenge that we enjoyed!" Rob Smith, Hotbox Studios

Following completion of the Step by Step website we provided Umbraco CMS training to allow the team at Step by Step to keep their new website up to date moving forward; the Umbraco CMS allowing the Step by Step team to quickly and easily login to add new pages, images, and copy.

The new Step by Step website is being hosted on our Managed Umbraco Hosting which runs on UK based Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, includes a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and offers multiple UK availability zones designed and managed in alignment with best security practices and IT security standards. This all provides a fast, secure, and reliable hosting platform for the new Step by Step website.

Web design and development for the new Step by Step Umbraco website has included:

A full website content audit
Content avatar research
Wireframes and user flows for avatars
Figma based designs
Interactive testing using Figma Prototype
Custom icons
Complete custom CSS
Integrated web fonts
Umbraco 13 CMS Build
Mobile First Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Custom mobile device navigation
Custom templates
Custom block based build to allow custom layouts on a per page basis
Custom JavaScript for most blocks allowing page speed optimisation
Image sizes managed in CMS with auto crop and scale based on window size and focal point (with manual crop override options)
Language switcher integrating google translate automatically
Custom donate pages
Salesforce NPSP (Nonprofit Success Pack) integration
Custom modal integration
Bespoke design
Accessibility testing
On page SEO tools for writing guidance