The Lemonade Press

The Lemonade Press is an art studio in Bristol run by Catherine Ade. The studio offers lithographic printing, printmaking courses and a whole host of services to artists making fine art prints.

The studio is the newest print studio in Bristol and is one of only a few in the country to offer the services which they provide. For this reason it was important that they had a website that was informative, engaging and high quality.

The Build

I built this site with WordPress as the CMS, along with a custom, bespoke theme which was built from scratch.

I also used Advanced Custom Fields in order to make the site customisable by the user. The site is easily updatable by the client and is always changing as the studio grows.

SEO was also an important aspect of this web development project. In a market where larger art institutions are already established it was crucial to ensure that the site was able to be found on Google and other search engines.

Using Yoast and many other SEO best-practices I managed to build a site that appears as the first item in Google for a number of key search terms, which has lead to a high volume of traffic to the site and many inquiries.

The next phase of the site is to add a blog and a members’ area which will be coming soon. This will enable the studio to continually grow and to serve its members and the wider community in the years ahead.

One other beneficial aspect of this project was to be undertaking a web development project for an independent business in Bristol. It was good to see the business start up and grow and will be interesting to watch the progress of the studio, and therefore the website, in the future.