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Captain T Productions

21 May 2026

A photography site for a local photographer, cinematography, and drone pilot.

Tags
Client servicesWordpress PluginsAdaptablitly
Challenge
The site had to showcase photography, cinematography, and drone work while the business direction was still forming.
Solution
A branded WordPress site shaped around the chosen visual direction, flexible media sections, and a more hands-on handover.
Impact
The client received a branded WordPress site and a stronger handover process for editing future content.
Tech Stack
WordPressCustom ThemeSpectraBluehost

Background

Captain T Productions was a beautiful project involving photography and the client wanted a website that would both showcase and advertise their work. At set-up, the business was in it’s infancy, so the build had to support growth and demonstrate the potential of the site, however the uncertainty of where the site was going, created an interesting challenge.

Onboarding & Early Ideas

The brief was basically:

  • ‘We need a website for our photography and drone footage’
  • ‘Advise us on the website software and hosting’
  • ‘Train us on how to add content’

I researched similar websites, for ideas on best practice and to understand how best to showcase this kind of work. The client provided their logo and using this, I created mockups which explored layout, colours, and general vibe of their brand.

Due to the time contraints of this project, for brand design, I used a little trick I used for my own site of developing business cards. This shows the logo on the background, the main font, and then the extra decorations identify the style and feeling the site will have. This alowed me to create the Wordpress which was most of the job, which expediated the process greatly.

Final design

Pictures of mockups done for the client

My client decided on idea five as the basic premise for the style. Since this was primarily a photography based site, I didn’t do many additional mockups as my client had limited content at that time.

Design & Build

Using Wordpress and custom theme, I built this site based on the client initial logo and the colours and layout used in the Idea 5 of the mockups as inspiration.

A few things I focused on:

  • Keeping the focus clear to the user
  • Maintaining a simple layout to draw focus to the products
  • Avoiding weird layout shifts on mobile due to large amount of images

As this was a portfolio project, I offered a free round of edits to the site. However, learning from my last handover of the Captain Cycles site. I worked with the client to make the changes, helping them through it, which let them make worthwhile changes, and learning how to use Wordpress, speeding up the hand-off time.

Hosting & Deployment

For hosting, I recommended Bluehost — it’s reliable, affordable, and easy to use, regardless of your level of technical experience.

The setup process was straightforward:

  • Uploaded the site files through Bluehost’s file manager
  • Unzipped the package on the server
  • Updated URLs and configuration settings
  • Finished the WordPress setup and activated the custom theme

To help them with SEO, analytics, and reviews, I installed:

  • Site Kit to get analytics so the client sees the progression
  • Spectra for a custom feel and ease of viewing for large pieces of infomation
  • Yoast SEO for basic optimisation

This was deemed by the client and myself to be the esentials of what was needed.

Outcome & Key takeaways

Outcome

The final site gave the client exactly what they needed:

  • A clean, simple design
  • A custom theme that matched their brand
  • Easy content management
  • Reliable hosting
  • Basic SEO and analytics built in

It was a smooth project that gave the client a professional online presence without any unnecessary complexity.

Key takeaways

As this was slightly more complex than Captain Cycles, it gave me a greater volume of work. However, as Captain Cycles was finishing up, I had to create balance between working on both sites at the same time, to keep up momentum and keeping to the client’s dealines.

Hindsight

If I was faced with a similar brief again, I would focus more on the intention of the site. This site features photography, cinematography and drone work, making the goal was unclear at the beginning, and the breadth of the client’s work was quite large, which resulted in an unguided start, significantly slowing the start of the project.

Also, while the Wordpress training was vastly improved, after learning about what some other companies do, I would create a simple user guide. It wouldn’t cover the basics of page editing, but it would cover more intricate elements of the Wordpress dashboard.