Website design for social enterprise and creative venue Bricks & St Anne’s House
WEBSITE DESIGN
Bricks are a Bristol-based charity working with creative, local and social enterprise communities in and around the South West. They produce public artwork programmes, deliver creative collaborative activities and secure permanent spaces in the city to build sustainable futures.
We first started working together back in 2020 to design and build a website to share information about their work, raise donations and promote the artists on their programme through portfolios and online art sales. As Bricks evolved and with the launch of their flagship project, St Anne’s House, it quickly became apparent that they needed a standalone site for the venue, so in 2023 we got to work building a new platform using the original Bricks site as a blueprint.
Collaborators
• Website build: Carl Hughes & Rob Morrisby
Bespoke donation platform 💳
Using Gravity Forms, we were able to build a bespoke donation page without being restrained by off-the-shelf forms from online donation providers. With this control we were able to design a donation screen where the user could switch seamlessly between a monthly or one off option, with suggested donation amounts. We kept the process simple, with big chunky buttons and clean single page forms, to be able to process donations in as few clicks as possible.
A library of custom content blocks 🗄️
The site is content rich, with beautiful imagery of people and artworks, blog posts, events, products, podcasts, videos, downloads and loads more, so the site needs to work with whatever content the team created. We built a library of custom content blocks bespoke to Bricks, that fit seamlessly alongside each other and work perfectly across desktop, tablet and mobile screens. We also made sure that any of the out-the-box WordPress embeds looked slick too.
Blueprint for a new website for Bricks’ venue, St Anne’s House 🏢
Bricks had been going from strength to strength since we started working together in 2020, and it quickly became apparent that their flagship project St Anne’s House needed it’s own home online. We took this as an opportunity to review the Bricks site, find out what was working and where improvements could be made, and make some updates to get it working perfectly for the team. Once we’d refreshed the Bricks site, we were able to use this is a blueprint for a new standalone site for St Anne’s House, with an upgraded events system, and more room to shout about all the amazing things happening in the space.
Let the content speak for itself
We worked with the team to refine the sitemap and make the structure of the site as simple as possible, so that all the lovely content wasn’t hidden under a complicated design system and structure.
