A complete redesign of mhishilaw.com — rebuilt to the standard of the world’s leading firms, in the practice’s own charcoal, gold and brand blues, with the logo untouched and the firm’s real photography doing the talking. This proposal presents the new design, what changes, the value it creates, and the investment required.
Mhishi Nkomo Legal Practice carries credentials most firms can only envy: over 200 years of combined experience, membership of Primerus — the international society of law firms — and a Senior Partner who is Chambers-recognised, a past President of the Law Society of Zimbabwe, and the author of the country’s only comprehensive conveyancing textbook. Yet the firm’s website is assembled from a generic Elementor template kit, with demo styling still visible, two competing colour schemes, thirteen service links crowded into dropdown menus, and those differentiators buried or absent.
We have redesigned and rebuilt the full website — all eighteen pages — as a bespoke, editorial design built around the firm’s own identity: a deliberate home-page narrative, twelve structured practice pages that each work as a landing page, the partnership presented with the firm’s own photography, and a “Book a Consultation” path on every screen.
Nothing about the brand changes. The logo is untouched, and the identity — the charcoal, the gold, the brand blues, the firm’s real photography — is applied as one unified system across every page.
What changes is everything around it: structure, typography, messaging, mobile experience, speed and conversion. The result is a website that matches the practice — and turns the referral moment into a consultation.
This is not a mock-up. It is the actual rebuilt home page, embedded below. Scroll inside the frame, hover the cards, and switch between desktop and mobile views.
The full redesign covers all eighteen pages — Home, About, Our People, Gallery, Contact, a Practice Areas index and twelve structured practice pages — delivered with this proposal.
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All eighteen pages, fully navigable — best experienced full-screen, and on your phone.
A side-by-side view of every meaningful design decision, and the reasoning behind it.
| Area | Current website | Proposed redesign |
|---|---|---|
| Overall design | ✕Assembled from a generic Elementor template kit (“Kodelaw”), with template demo blocks and styling still visible — a look interchangeable with thousands of other sites. | ✓Bespoke and editorial. Every section designed for MNLP around its own identity — its palette, its photography, its voice. Nothing off-the-shelf. |
| Brand consistency | ✕Two competing colour schemes — template gold/charcoal in menus, brand blue applied ad hoc — with typography and spacing shifting between pages. | ✓One unified design system using the firm’s existing palette, applied consistently across all eighteen pages. Logo untouched. |
| Navigation | ✕Crowded dropdowns: thirteen service links and six team links nested in the header. Visitors must hunt. | ✓Six clear top-level sections with a persistent “Book a Consultation” button; practice areas browsed on a dedicated, scannable index. |
| Home page story | ✕Sections in template order; the key differentiators — Primerus membership, 200+ years, a Chambers-ranked Senior Partner — buried or absent. | ✓A deliberate narrative: positioning → proof → practice areas → people → client voices → call to action. Differentiators surfaced above the fold. |
| Practice areas | ✕A single services list; several practice pages are thin, with placeholder-style content and no consistent structure. | ✓Twelve structured practice pages — each with an overview, a “How we can assist” checklist, cross-navigation and its own consultation CTA. A landing page for every discipline. |
| Conversion path | ✕No consistent route to enquiry; contact details vary in visibility page to page. | ✓Every page carries the top-bar phone and email, a header CTA, an end-of-page CTA band and a footer contact block — plus WhatsApp click-to-chat. |
| Trust signals | ✕Testimonials use stock portrait photos; recognitions scattered as passing text. | ✓Client words in a dignified editorial format; Primerus, the Chambers recognition and the firm’s real photography woven throughout. |
| Mobile experience | ✕Template-driven responsive behaviour; dense menus and heavy sections degrade on phones. | ✓Designed mobile-first: thumb-friendly navigation, stacked layouts and readable type at every size. |
| Performance | ✕WordPress, Elementor and a stack of fifteen-plus active plugins — heavy CSS and JavaScript on every load. | ✓Hand-coded, dependency-free pages — one small CSS system and roughly 3KB of JavaScript. Faster loads and stronger ranking signals. |
| Search visibility | ✕Builder markup, thin metadata and duplicated headings. | ✓Clean semantic HTML with per-page titles and descriptions — twelve practice pages that each answer a search like “conveyancing lawyer Harare” or “mining law Zimbabwe”. |
A website redesign is not a cosmetic expense. For a professional-services firm it is a revenue asset. Here is where the return comes from.
Prospective clients judge a firm’s competence by its website within seconds — and legal services are a high-trust purchase. A site that looks like a top-tier firm invites the instructions of top-tier clients.
Twelve structured practice pages mean twelve entry points from search — “conveyancing lawyer Harare”, “mining law Zimbabwe”, “labour lawyer” — each landing on a page about exactly that need, with a consultation button in view.
Chambers-recognised, past President of the Law Society, author of Zimbabwe’s only conveyancing textbook — credentials that close instructions, presented where prospects decide.
Membership of the international society of law firms signals vetted quality to foreign investors and referring firms — surfaced in the stat band and woven through the site.
MNLP invested in professional photography of its actual people — the redesign replaces stock portraits with the team clients will meet.
Clean, owned code — ready for new practice areas, publications or client resources whenever the firm is, without plugin stacks or template lock-in.
One once-off fee for the complete redesign, with an optional monthly retainer to keep the site fast, secure and current.
Once-off project fee
50% deposit (US$175) on commencement, balance on go-live. The site is already built — go-live in under two weeks of approval. Professional photography of partners and chambers can be arranged and is quoted separately.
The site stays fast, current and secure — without occupying your staff
The build fee is US$350 with or without the retainer. Month-to-month — begin at go-live or later, cancel any time on one month’s notice. Fees exclusive of any applicable taxes.
Sign-off on this proposal and chosen option; deposit invoice issued.
One partner-review round: final wording, people profiles, and any photography you wish to include.
SSL installed, contact forms wired, site deployed to your domain with all old URLs redirected.
Staff walkthrough, a plain-English editing guide, and the 30-day support window begins.
Approve the proposal and the new Mhishi Nkomo website can be live in under two weeks.