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Case study 04 / 04 · Home and garden

Everything for the home, under one roof.

LL DIY, Barmouth. A new site for Barmouth's home, DIY and garden centre, with a page for every department and enquiries sent straight to the right person.

See the live site
Departments6
Enquiry inboxes3
Files, was 10820
Days to go live15
LL DIY. new website LL DIY. old website Before · The old site After · the new site
01 · The problem

Six departments under one roof. The old site was slow to show any of them.

6.8s Slow on a phoneThe main picture took 6.8 seconds to show on a phone.
108 Heavy for one page108 files and 1.9MB for the home page, built with the Elementor page builder.
1 One inbox for everythingThe only address on the site was sales@, so a kitchen enquiry waited alongside every other question.
lldiy.co.uk
Loading the old site 0.0s
This is real time, on a phone.
02 · What I built

One shop, six departments.

lldiy.co.uk
The LL DIY kitchens page
The LL DIY DIY page
The LL DIY garden centre page
Kitchens · its own page
Each department has its own page, with photos from the shop floorLive site
03 · The design

Warm stone, charcoal and a touch of sun.

The grey design Dave, Shane and Charles picked together, with big department headings and the showroom photos doing the work.
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lldiy.co.uk
LL DIY., Home page
Scrolling the page · hover, drag or swipe to take over Real screenshots of the live site
04 · The numbers

Same tests, before and after.

Lighthouse on a phone, three runs each: the old site on its old server on 21 Oct 2026, the new one live on 22 Oct.
Speed score 97 Was 68 to 70
On screen in 1.2s Was 6.8s
Files loaded 20 Was 108
Page weight 1.0MB Was 1.9MB
05 · How it went

From concept to live in fifteen days.

6 Oct 9 Oct 16 Oct 18 Oct 21 Oct Me The concept, the grey version chosen A second round from their comments The site built and on its preview Charles's DIY comments made Live on lldiy.co.uk, email untouched Dave Picked the design together 17 comments on the design Sent photos of the shop 15 comments on the DIY page Access to the domain
  1. 6 Oct The concept, the grey version chosen Dave: Picked the design together
  2. 9 Oct A second round from their comments Dave: 17 comments on the design
  3. 16 Oct The site built and on its preview Dave: Sent photos of the shop
  4. 18 Oct Charles's DIY comments made Dave: 15 comments on the DIY page
  5. 21 Oct Live on lldiy.co.uk, email untouched Dave: Access to the domain
“We’re really happy with our new website!”

A big thank you to Danny for making the whole process so easy and straightforward. He was friendly, helpful, and great to work with from start to finish. Nothing was too much trouble, and we’re really pleased with the end result. Would definitely recommend Danny to anyone looking for a new website!

David L.LL DIY, Google review

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