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title: "Website for The Dog House Manly"
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summary: "A responsive WordPress site for The Dog House Manly, a dog-walking service on the Northern Beaches. Live in two weeks, built to grow."
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# Website for The Dog House Manly

Source: https://digitalfreelancer.net.au/projects/website-build-the-dog-house-manly/

**The Dog House Manly · Bespoke dog walking · 2011**

## Website design and build for The Dog House Manly: a tailored service with a website to match

![A black French bulldog looking straight at the camera](https://digitalfreelancer.net.au/img/the-dog-house-manly-website-design-1920.webp)

The Dog House Manly is a bespoke dog-walking service on the Northern Beaches. When Delphi started the business she needed a website that could promote it now and grow with it later, on a small budget.

## Background

A new business with big plans and no online presence. The site had to be built in a way that scales, because the plans for the business were already well under way.

## The process

After one scoping meeting to pin down the requirements, I designed and built a responsive WordPress site. It went live within two weeks.

Delphi was the ideal partner on this one: proactive, quick with content and clear about what she wanted. That is a large part of why it moved so fast, and working with people who care about their business is one of the things I like most about this job.

## Built for search engines from the first line

Clean, semantic HTML and CSS so search engines can read the site as easily as a person can. Sensible headings, structured data for rich results and a layout that adapts from a phone to a widescreen monitor. The design is clean, modern and a little bit fun, which puts it ahead of the pack in a crowded local market.

## Outcome

Built on a budget, built to be the backbone of a small business, and the feedback from the people it was made for has been overwhelmingly positive.

> “Thanks for all your hard work. A website really is the backbone of a business and I will be proud to refer people to it. It does look good and, more importantly, its functionality works.”
> 
> Delphi Coleman, Owner and operator, The Dog House Manly

**Client**

-   The Dog House Manly
-   Bespoke dog walking
-   Manly, Northern Beaches
-   2011

**Role**

-   Strategy
-   UX
-   Responsive design
-   WordPress development
-   CMS
-   SEO

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![The Dog House Manly website shown on desktop, tablet and phone](https://digitalfreelancer.net.au/img/the-dog-house-manly-website-mockup-1000.webp)

![The Dog House Manly homepage on a laptop](https://digitalfreelancer.net.au/img/the-dog-house-manly-website-macbook-800.webp)

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