Website proposal · knightkit.co.uk

Three ways to bring Knight Kit up to date.

Same business, same products, same photography, same twenty years of expertise — three genuinely different ways of putting it in front of a customer. Each one is a working page built on your live catalogue: real products, real prices, real stock.

Prepared for Pete at Knight Kit · by Dynamic Sentry · August 2026

Where we're starting from

What's holding the current site back

Nothing here is a criticism of the business — the products and the photography are genuinely good. The problem is that the site is wearing a theme from about 2012, and it's getting in the way.

01

The layout fights the content

A narrow centre column with two stacked link boxes down the left was standard fifteen years ago. It pushes the products below the fold and gives half the screen to navigation nobody clicks.

02

The photography is wasted

Your product shots are dark, dramatic night scenes with glowing colour. On a light grey theme they look flat. On the right background they'd sell the product on their own.

03

Nothing says who you are

You design and develop these products — the banksman wand was built for Tarmac. The site reads like a catalogue reseller. That's the single biggest thing being left on the table.

04

Category pages don't sell

Prices, stock and sale flags aren't visible until you click into a product. Shoppers compare on the listing page or they leave.

05

Mobile is an afterthought

The theme shrinks rather than rethinks. Buyers on site, in a van or on an apron need big targets and a fast route to the right product.

06

Nineteen good articles, hidden

“What is a banksman?”, “Long or short wand?” — that's exactly what people search for. It's buried behind a News link in a sidebar.

The three concepts

Pick a direction, not a colour scheme

These aren't three skins on the same page. Each makes a different bet about what wins you the sale — brand impact, buying speed, or expertise. Click through and use them properly: the filters, the search and the finder all work on your real 70-product catalogue.

Preview of concept A, a dark cinematic homepage design
Concept A · Night Watch

Made to be seen.

Dark, cinematic, product-led. The whole interface gets out of the way so the photography — a marshaller lit by his own wands on a night apron — does the selling.

  • Full-bleed hero, colour-coded ranges with LED pulse accents
  • Product grid with prices, sale flags and quick view
  • Strongest brand statement of the three

Best if you want Knight Kit to feel like a premium kit brand rather than a supplier, and you're happy for the shop to be the whole site.

Open concept A →
Preview of concept B, a bold hi-vis industrial homepage design
Concept B · Hi-Vis

If they can't see you, you're not there.

Light, loud and functional. Hi-vis yellow, condensed industrial type and a catalogue built like a trade counter — sector-first navigation, filters, search, list or grid, stock on every line.

  • Navigation by job: directing vehicles, coning a lane, working an incident
  • Filter rail, price slider, live search, list/grid toggle
  • Trade and distributor route built into the page

Best if most of your value is repeat and trade buyers who know roughly what they want and need to find it in under a minute — including on a phone, in a yard, wearing gloves.

Open concept B →
Preview of concept C, an editorial homepage with an interactive kit finder
Concept C · Kit Finder

Not sure which one you need?

Editorial and advisory. Leads with a working three-question tool that reads the real catalogue and recommends products — then backs it with your articles as a proper knowledge hub.

  • Working finder: job → location → power source → ranked results
  • Your 19 articles promoted to the front as buying advice
  • Leans hardest on the Tarmac / own-design story

Best if a lot of your enquiries are people who don't yet know what they need, and you want the site to do the job you currently do on the phone — plus the strongest long-term search position.

Open concept C →

Side by side

How they differ

A · Night WatchB · Hi-VisC · Kit Finder
The betBrand and desireSpeed and utilityExpertise and trust
Feels likeA premium gear brandA serious trade supplierA specialist who knows the answer
Front doorCinematic hero, then the shop“What's the job?” sector tilesThree-question kit finder
Best forNew customers, one-off buyers, brand recallTrade, repeat buyers, procurementUncertain buyers, organic search
PhotographyDoes the heavy lifting — needs your best shotsSupporting role, works with what existsEditorial use, fewer but larger images
Ongoing effortLow — mostly product upkeepLow — catalogue drivenHigher — rewards regular articles
SEO upsideModerateGood (category and product depth)Strongest (advice content plus products)
They're not mutually exclusive. The most likely outcome is one direction as the base with a piece borrowed from another — for example concept B's catalogue behaviour underneath concept A's look, or concept C's kit finder dropped onto either. Tell us which parts you react to and we'll build the combination.

Worth knowing

A few notes on these demos

The data is real

All 70 products, prices, sale prices, stock status and categories are pulled live from knightkit.co.uk. Anything you spot that looks wrong in a demo is worth checking on the live site too.

The images are yours

Every photograph is from your own media library, converted to WebP. That alone cut them from 13MB to 3MB — a large part of why these pages load faster than the current site.

They're front-ends, not shops

These are design concepts. Basket, checkout and account stay on WooCommerce — “View on knightkit.co.uk” links go to the real product page.