Bespoke WordPress site for New Horizon-IT, a business IT partner in Gloucestershire. It opens with no header, then the logo docks into the navigation as the hero shrinks into a card.
Guru of the Day, Web Guru Awards, 29 October 2026. Jury score 8.3/10.
New Horizon-IT is a UK business IT partner based in Gloucestershire, covering managed support, cloud, Microsoft 365, security, backup, communications, infrastructure, hardware diagnostics and custom apps.
Their message is simple: support, cloud, security and backup, run by people who answer the phone and explain things in plain English. The site had to say that clearly, across a home page, a services hub and nine service pages.
We designed it to stand out in its sector, with a dark space-themed hero, a white page and one accent colour. Then we made sure it works properly on phones, with motion switched off and if a script fails.
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The page opens with no header at all. The logo sits large in the corner of a full-bleed hero, then docks into the navigation as you scroll, while the hero shrinks into a card beneath it. We lay the logo out at its largest size and scale it down, so it stays sharp the whole way.
A white page, dark image cards and a single accent, Volt. ZT Nature carries the display type and Inter does the rest. Volt never appears as text on white, because it would be too hard to read.
Bento cards fly in from every side, a pinned section draws fine routes across a planet, and the services sit in a pinned panel with the cards travelling inside it. Everything reads the same smoothed scroll position, and each pinned section settles before it releases.
Desktop gets the full motion. Phones get a static layout with touch rails. A switch in the navigation turns motion off and shows each section in its finished state, and the site respects a visitor's reduced-motion setting. If the script fails, the content stays visible.
Testimonials are quoted word for word from named clients, and experience is described as the founder's rather than the company's, because the two are different things. A site this visual still has to say only what is true.
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New Horizon-IT Case Study: Mako Digital designed and built a custom WordPress website for New Horizon-IT, a business IT partner based in Gloucestershire. The site won Guru of the Day at the Web Guru Awards on 29 October 2026. The award recognises this website.
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Guru of the Day at the Web Guru Awards, on 29 October 2026, with a jury score of 8.3 out of 10. You can see the listing on the Web Guru Awards site, which credits Mako Digital.
This website. The jury scored design, usability, creativity, content, technical execution and overall experience. It is an award for the site, and it says nothing about search rankings or enquiries.
No. It uses a custom WordPress theme coded for this site, with no page builder.
It doesn't try to. Below 900 pixels wide the page becomes static, and the bento cards, reach section and services become touch rails with their own controls. The hero also gets its own portrait crop.
Yes. There is a motion switch in the desktop navigation, and the choice is remembered. The site also follows the reduced-motion setting on the visitor's device. With motion off, each section shows in its finished state.
The content still shows. Every rule that hides something waiting to animate only applies once the script has confirmed it is running, so a failure leaves the page fully visible.
Yes. See web design for IT companies for how we approach it.
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