Gardens of the Wine Country

Gardens of the Wine Country has provided landscape design, installation, and maintenance across Sonoma, Napa, and northern Marin County since 2001, with a 20-year track record and hundreds of clients. The company positions itself as a project manager rather than a vendor requiring constant oversight — which meant the site had to do real work establishing that trust before a homeowner or property manager ever picks up the phone.

What we built:

• Full web design and development — a modern look built around a 30-year-old logo whose orange-and-purple palette wasn’t an easy fit for a contemporary site
• Filterable photo gallery — visitors sort project photos by category instead of scrolling one long undifferentiated feed
• Clear service categorization — design, installation, and maintenance kept as three distinct, findable paths instead of one generic landscaping pitch
• Testimonial-driven trust signals — client testimonials from across the wine country region surfaced prominently, not buried on a separate page

The real design constraint was the client’s existing branding: a logo created three decades ago, with an orange-and-purple color scheme that reads dated by modern standards but still needed to anchor the full web design. Rather than replace the logo outright, we built a palette around it — pulling those same hues into a more contemporary layout so the site feels current without abandoning 20 years of brand recognition.

The filterable gallery does the heavier functional lifting: with three service lines and years of completed projects, a static image grid would bury the work a visitor actually came to see. Category filters let someone researching installation work skip straight past maintenance photos, and vice versa — the same “let the right visitor self-select quickly” principle that shapes the service categorization on the rest of the site.