Welcome to Zonkey, and thanks for stopping by.

We’ve been established in Bath as a web development agency for over 9 years now.

We may still be small, but we’ve got big ideas.

We’ve built over 400 websites for a wide range of clients around the world covering hundreds of business types. 

Our core business is WordPress development. We do this direct for clients, but we also work with a number of agencies as white label developers, such is the wealth of experience we have to offer.

You won’t see a lot of that work in our portfolio but drop us a line to see some examples.  

Our expertise not only covers custom Wordpress themes API development and booking platforms. No matter the size or scale of your project, get in contact with us to find out how we can help.

If you’re after more details about our team, then we’ve found some fascinating facts for you.  Here at Zonkey we work a lot with a popular content management system called WordPress.

In fact, it’s so popular that we’ve been led to believe that nearly 1 in every 3 websites runs on the WordPress platform, maybe even more.

It’s a hugely flexible and powerful product and one that we really enjoy working with. 

There are a number of things we do when working with WordPress and we’re working on developing this area of our site to give you more information about the different aspects. 

WordPress is based around three main elements. The core software, the theme and the plugins. We can help with all different aspects, including the hosting. 

Web Design is a term used to cover a multitude of services. If you’re a business looking for your first website, or you’re just looking to upgrade then we can provide a solution to fit your requirements.

Ok, we knew you were going to ask about the Zonkey eventually, so here’s some information from our friends at Wikipedia:

“A zonkey is a cross between a zebra and a donkey. Donkeys are closely related to zebras and both animals belong to the horse family. Zonkeys are very rare”. If you’re being picky, then information from a great website, the A-Z of Animals says that it can only really be classed as a Zonkey if it is sired from a male Zebra and a female Donkey. If you have a male Donkey and female Zebra then you end up with a Zebadonk.

Sadly the Zonkey is a sterile creature, similar to the Mule and Liger, so it cannot produce offspring of its own. Zonkeys can live in the wild though, although they are very rare and the majority of Zonkeys are found in zoos around the world.

A recent birth in Mexico (April 2014) shows a video of a baby Zonkey. 

We may just provide web design services, and not actually keep or look after these animals, but, Zonkey as a name just sounds good doesn’t it. Could you really see us being called Zebadonk Solutions though? I mean, come on, seriously now…

Here at Zonkey, web design is at the core of what we do. The vast majority of websites we build are based around the WordPress platform, and that is where most of our expertise lies.

We’ve provided some more details below about different types of sites to help you choose which of our services is best for you. We aim to be able to work towards almost any budget you may have, within reason, so please come and talk to us about your project.

We also offer a range of other services alongside web development, including website maintenance, digital marketing & seo, copywriting, design & branding and much more. We build websites for lots of different businesses and industries, including town and parish councils. We also have a fully WCAG 2.1 compliant accessible theme that are used by a range of councils and other businesses.

Here at Zonkey we work a lot with a popular content management system (CMS) called WordPress. In fact, it’s so popular that nearly 1 in every 3 websites worldwide run on the WordPress platform. It’s a hugely flexible and powerful product and one that we really enjoy working with.

With over 10 years of experience in developing and managing WordPress sites, there isn’t much we haven’t done. There’s probably something in our portfolio that’s similar to a project you’re looking to do. Whether it’s a small brochure site, an e-commerce site, a site that integrates with external systems or a site that includes bespoke functionality such as custom mapping, we can help you.

Our range of WordPress services is extensive.

WordPress Theme Design

We can build you a bespoke theme for WordPress. Whether it’s a PSD to WordPress conversion from an existing design you have or you want us to come up with something new, this can all be done.

WCAG 2.1 Compliant Themes

Something we’ve done a lot more of recently is to do with WCAG compliant themes that meet accessibility standards. Particularly popular with town and parish councils, we have a base theme framework that can help your business meet accessibility guidelines.

WordPress Plugins

We’ve used many hundreds of WordPress plugins over recent years so this has given us a vast amount of experience in which ones work well and which ones don’t. If you want a gallery or a shop on your site, we’ll be able to recommend what works well. There are also a number of plugins that every WordPress install should have and we’ll be happy to help install these for you.

WordPress Maintenance

We also look after many WordPress sites. With regular updates and upgrades being made available we can help you maintain your WordPress site to be in tip top condition. Check out our WordPress Maintenance services.

WordPress Hosting

Our web servers are optimised to run WordPress installs. From the initial self install to the configuration and subsequent build, we can do all of this for you. Come and talk to us about WordPress hosting. Using SSD disks, our UK based cloud servers are perfect for your WordPress site, leveraging caching plugins and with state of the art security and firewall protection.

WordPress Backups & Recovery

Had your WordPress site hacked? Need help recovering your site? This is something we can assist with. All our maintenance and hosting packages include backups so we can restore your site from copies up to 120 days old. We can even sometimes help recover and protect your site even if you don’t host with us.

White Label WordPress Development

We offer a white label WordPress development service. We work with a number of design agencies to build websites based on their designs. We can liaise directly with the end user, or work behind the scenes and provide a full white label service.

Website marketing, including Search Engine Optimisation, can be a bit of a minefield. You’ll often get conflicting opinions about how best to promote your site and it’s fair to say that there is more than one way to skin a cat (as it were).

When it comes to SEO, we try and keep things simple for you, and we’ll happily be open with you about what success you should expect when marketing your website online. Our no-nonsense approach means we won’t sell you anything if we don’t honestly believe we can make a difference.

When you’ve got your website up and running, you then need to invest in promoting it to tell people it’s there. This is where SEO comes in.

SEO covers a range of technical and non-technical methods of promoting your site on search engines. We all know there’s only one search engine worth getting ranked on, and that is of course Alta Vista. Ok, we’re showing our age now, yes it’s Google.

Whether it’s the technical structure of your page, how your content is ordered, or what tags you’re using in what position, or whether it just comes down to the words you’re using, we can provide an initial analysis of your site to point out areas for improvement. We can then put together a tailored proposal for an optimisation package just for you.

While achieving page one rankings depends on a lot of factors, some out of our control, we’ve worked on many websites that have achieved position one rankings for a range of keywords. We’ll always tell you before we begin where you stand so as to manage your expectations, and we won’t take on a project unless we truly believe we can make a difference.