
Deborah Butler | The Band of Wickedly Good Creatives
Front-end Developer
We are Deborah and Marion, WordPress experts with 20yrs of combined experience building WordPress sites for a large range of clients - from custom themes, to eCommerce, to personal blogs or existing site optimization, The Band is a dependable partner for your next WordPress project.
5.0/5
overall rating
28
projects
16
customers
Location
Cahors, France
Languages
English
Member since
14 Sep, 2020
3 years
Typical projects
Customizations, Full Website Builds, Theme Development
Integrity and honesty are foundational to our working style. Delivering work that you feel is worth the investment of your time and money is of the utmost importance to us. Listening, taking care to understand your ideas and concerns, cost-efficiency, and clear communication are table stakes. CUSTOM THEME DEVELOPMENT We've found that sometimes building a theme from scratch takes less time than tweaking something that already exists. Plus custom themes help websites to be faster, leaner, and more efficient. Building a custom WordPress theme is our first preferred approach when starting a new project. It allows us to create something unique and high-performing. When we build a custom theme, we like to ensure that they are: Clean code and standards-compliant Functionality flexible Design adaptable Fast page speeds An easy to use admin dashboard PAGE BUILDER (ELEMENTOR, GUTENBERG, DIVI, WPBAKERY) Preferred page builder: Elementor or Gutenberg Setting you up to succeed beyond the build is something we are committed to thinking about. This includes recommendations around maintenance, updates, reporting, and ease of future customization - which is where page builders come in. We like to work with Elementor - a page builder that saves time and also sets you up for easier customization and updates in the future post build. It's also compatible with Custom Post Types as well as Advanced Custom Fields, which means we can be more versatile with this kind of build. A WIDE RANGE OF CLIENT EXPERIENCE We are curious by nature and love to learn. This has led us to work with a wide range of clients both locally and internationally. From intricate corporate websites to personal blogs, media sites to eCommerce startups, and national newspapers and NGOs – we’ve gained experience across a range of business verticals. You can view our official website at: https://thebandwgc.io and my personal freelancer portfolio at: https://startumproject.com
Skills
5/5
Deborah is very thorough, efficient, and highly knowledgeable about website design, and she created a start to launch for my new company website. I am thrilled with its final look and feel. Her communication and suggestion were timely, and we were able to have the launch in three weeks. I would strongly recommend Deborah and will use her for future projects.
Sep 08, 2022
5/5
Everything we asked for, in a timely and professional way. Would strongly recommend.
Dec 06, 2021
5/5
Superb team, very patient with us as a non-profit client lacking skills and bandwidth. The result is a very well received website!
May 21, 2021
5/5
She is very knowledgeable and professional.
Oct 18, 2022
5/5
Deb did an awesome job!
Feb 24, 2022
5/5
Good service from Deborah and expected outcome.
Dec 18, 2021
5/5
Deborah was a pleasure to talk to, friendly and a real WP expert. She helped me understand how to tackle a big project and how to get rid of a bunch of resource heavy plugins.
Apr 30, 2021
5/5
Deborah is extremely personable and very friendly, that is on top of her excellent communication skills and her technical knowledge was outstanding. I will certainly be requesting her help in the future and I would highly recommend her. A big thank you ;-)
Oct 28, 2020

Total Revamp of Rent.com Blog Site
The site was built from the ground up by building a custom theme using _underscores, ACF, FacetWP, Custom Post Types and a number of custom queries.

Spice Route Wines
A well known vineyard in Cape Town, South Africa. This is an eCommerce website built with WooCommerce.

Design and Build of Energy Partners SA
A complete design and build of the Energy Partners SA site. Site built with Elementor, ACF, Custom Post Types, FacetWP & SearchWP

Childrens Radio Foundation Website
A Custom theme build using _underscores, ACF, Custom Post Types, FacetWP and SearchWP

Podcast Website
This is Africa were looking for a simple website to showcase their latest podcast. Clean and simple design. Built with Elementor.