Sagewood Cafe

Bespoke WordPress Website with eCommerce functionality

Sagewood Cafe is a vibrant restaurant in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where the focus is on serving creative, delicious and beautiful dishes using locally-sourced and sustainable ingredients.

This brand is close to my heart; I’ve been part of their journey since the beginning. I first started working with them in 2015 before they were officially a brand! At the time I was working at a marketing agency and was part of the team that designed Sagewood’s brand identity and first website. We also helped with the restaurant’s launch campaign, social media and PR.

Goals for this WordPress website redesign:

Use video to immediately draw the visitor in and visually communicate what Sagewood is all about.
Make it simple + easy for people to view and download the menus.
Improve the website’s presence in location-based Google search.
Improve the user experience for mobile phone users.
Create an online shop that’s easy for the Sagewood team to manage themselves.
Create an online cake ordering system.

Before After

Before / After

The result is this fun, user-friendly and joyful new website that communicates Sagewood's vibrant and authentic spirit. Sagewood also maintains their high position on the first page of Google search results.

We love working with creative business founders sych Gregg – it’s been such a joy to breathe new life into Sagewood’s website.

Is your website leaving you feel disheartened and uninspired? Do you feel like it needs a redesign to get it appealing to the right customers? Let’s chat:

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