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Your agency’s website is often the first interaction you’ll have with a potential customer, and first impressions are everything. It’s especially difficult to stand apart from the competition for creative agencies that sell similar services, so you should leverage your website and online presence as much as possible by focusing on what counts – a strong and creative brand persona, good design, and great user experience.
We’ve compiled 23 of the best creative WordPress theme options available for web design agencies looking to create new websites or revamp their existing websites. To do this, we looked at a few key attributes across themes:
- Creativity. Web design companies often sound the same to potential clients after a while, and it’s really your brand’s aesthetics, creativity, and personality that set you apart. Make your potential clients feel instantly inspired and motivated to choose you the instant they land on your website with a truly creative and innovative style.
- Responsiveness. Duh – you can’t claim to be a leading web design company if your own website isn’t optimized for mobile devices.
- Clean layout. Nothing is worse than a busy website, especially when you’re selling services. We looked for themes that highlight your work and drive users to contact you.
- Function over form. Many ultra creative companies tend to overdo it with visual design at the expense of functionality and user experience. Remember, your website should be beautiful, but it should also convert your visitors into customers.
1. Optimizer
Optimizer is a highly customizable theme that lets you put your web design capabilities front and center with relatively little heavy lifting. It offers a unique live edit feature that allows you to customize without having to open multiple windows and constantly refresh, minimizing the time it’ll take you to get your new website up and running. Optimizer offers a free download version, or a pro version for a one-time cost of $49.
2. Nicitite
Nictitate is a free wordpress theme featuring a simple but clean layout. It’s homepage design includes a strong main menu utilizing custom icons, an effective call to action feature, and a prominent slider allowing you to show off your most successful client projects.
3. Flozo
Flozo is a free theme great for web design companies. It’s design balances function with a clean, visual layout, and allows for an excellent portfolio page to highlight client case studies. It also places your company’s phone number prominently in the upper right of the menu, a great tactic for driving conversions.
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4. New Line
New Line is a modern, minimalist theme available via Creative Market. It features unique parallax sections to provide extra visual interest, as well as an easy drag and drop page builder for easy customization.
5. Architekt
Architekt is a premium wordpress theme designed specifically for architectural portfolios, but it’s layout and features would work great for a modern, unique, and innovative web design company. If you’re company’s work speaks for itself, use this theme to show off your best client examples.
6. Web Design Agency
Aptly named, the Web Design Agency theme creates a strong first impression. Using full screen background image and video integration, modern design elements, and interactive parallax features, this theme is likely to impress potential clients and drive powerful motivation for your creative services.
7. Business Services Promotion
Don’t let the lame name of this theme template turn you off. This cheerful parallax design uses large format photos and videos behind well formatted blocks of text to evoke a friendly yet professional feel. It includes added details like spinning icons or highlighted text when a user scrolls over certain elements, providing movement and interactivity for a more interesting design and experience. As a bonus, the theme includes stock photos that you may choose to use for your final product to save some time and potential costs.
8. Hazel
Hazel is an extremely versatile theme, offering 35 demos in 3 editions for a seemingly endless array of layouts, all featuring highly visual designs perfect for creative companies. It’s modern, photography-focused designs will easily help your agency stand out among the competition and build a memorable online presence.
9. Xone
Xone features a one-page theme design with multiple customization options, or a quick demo import that can have your web design agency site up in one simple click. It includes a parallax video option and multiple unique header options for a cutting-edge design.
10. Jarvis
Jarvis is another wordpress theme with a smooth, stylish parallax design well-suited for creative companies. There are multiple homepage style variations to choose from, utilizing compelling typography and modern design elements over a bold fullscreen photo slider.
11. Aperio
Aperio uses a very clean, simple layout for maximum visual impact and user experience. As a multipurpose theme, it’s highly customizable, and offers added options like a sticky header, font awesome icon set, and multiple blog and portfolio layouts.
12. Omega
Omega’s high flexibility makes it both a beautiful and easy option for creative agencies. It utilizes both visual composer for easy development of pages and gravity forms so you can drive new business. Use the one-click install option to import default settings, or check out the 100+ example pages to get your creativity flowing and develop your own stunning webpages.
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13. Buran
Buran utilizes a distinctive creative design that leverages your web design agency’s portfolio to its fullest extent. With four different portfolio templates, several custom page layouts, and unlimited possibilities for interior pages, this is a truly limitless theme that is guaranteed to make a strong impact on your web visitors.
14. Tides
Tides is a one-page, video background wordpress theme with huge wow factor. The gorgeous homepage video banner will instantly draw your potential clients in, and the filterable portfolio will beautifully showcase your agency’s creative chops.
15. Hypnos
Hypnos offers a one-page multipurpose design featuring 6 customizable demo homepage layouts, parallax backgrounds, a sortable portfolio, and a custom section builder. Choose from a light or dark version to match your agency’s style, and take advantage of the 8 premium plugins included with the purchase.
16. OneUp
OneUp is a wordpress theme with serious impact, and added features that make building our your agency’s site ultra easy. It’s features include great customization tools such as an advanced page builder, a layered slide builder to add animated captions to your slideshows, and a drag and drop gallery builder. In addition, OneUp offers a custom thumbnail cropping tool and content blocking to reuse content throughout the site. Choose from 3 different visual skins to capture your brand’s personality.
17. Swenson
Swenson is a stunning creative theme that is design oriented and UX focused. It couples soft aesthetics and modern design with one page or multipage options and advanced masonry or grid portfolio styles. Swenson utilizes visual composer, a crespo option panel, and a one click install for super easy set up.
18. Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a powerful one page parallax theme offering 13 unique premade demos your agency can choose from. Create unlimited and detailed portfolios to showcase your client work, and easily set it all up using the many video tutorials offered with the theme. It’s minimalism evokes bold emotion and a powerful impact sure to impress your website visitors.
19. Momentum
Momentum is a simple yet creative one page wordpress theme perfect for web design agencies. It’s clean design provides all of the essentials for highlighting your portfolio work and selling your creative services. Choose from multiple introduction options and business, personal, and alternative theme variations depending on your needs.
20. Scalia
Of Scalia’s five built-in, multi-concept designs, its creative agency one pager or corporate multi-purpose are excellent choices for a creative business. Beyond overall design, Scalia offers truly limitless portfolio, blog, page, and gallery options for a comprehensively customizable theme. It also offers the visual composer page builder and built-in mega menus for added premium features.
21. The Company
The Company is a versatile theme featuring a flexible content layout, boxed or full width styles, and a revolution slider. The portfolio design allows you to add smooth vector animation, which will definitely make your agency stand out.
22. Atrium
Atrium is a super slick and modern option for the forward-thinking web design agency. It’s minimalist style is punctuated by bold color accents, and is easily modified to suite your unique brand style.
23. Salient
Salient is an excellent multipurpose wordpress theme, offering an abundance of key features for customizing your website to represent your agency. It offers over 600+ available fonts and colors for unlimited combinations, three full icon sets, and multiple portfolio configuration options and layouts.
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