Working with a wide range of organisations and partnerships doing good things

A Few of our Projects

Designing and developing custom websites tailored to meet your needs, that are easy for you to use and add content, enabling your audience to keep up to date with your stories and work.

Sustainable Severn

Website & Event Reporting

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Community Pathways

Front End Web Development

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The Great Crane Project

Website & Print design

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View a big list of the wonderful clients we've worked with →

Services

Most of our work is related to web design and development, whether it's a new website, or enhancing an existing site to be more user friendly or have additional functionality such as e-commerce for example.

User friendly websites

From small micro websites to large data web projects

Custom design and development and built mostly with Wordpress and Drupal. Most new projects are now adaptive in their design to give a rich user experience from mobile to desktop.

Design for print

Including branding and identity, illustration, type and design

We design for both the web and for print. Everything from a new identity and voice through to infographics, fliers and leaflets, annual reports, brochures and more.

Event Reporting

Sharing the stories from your event to a wide audience

A package which includes a custom website raising awareness prior to your event, reporting and social sharing before, during and after the event with reports, photography, video and audio.

"The strong, and relatively rare combination of design and technical skills make Popokatea a pleasure to work with."
"Laura expertly guided us throughout and we have ended up with a site that functions in exactly the way we envisaged and is also flexible enough to incorporate our future developments."
"Laura has been rather instrumental in transforming massively the user experience of the Web site"

Meet Popokatea

Laura Whitehead

Designer and Developer

Who is behind Popokatea?

Popokatea is a one woman web design studio based in Newton Abbot, Devon run by Laura Whitehead. Designing for the web part time since 2002, she decided to finally fly from the nest to go full time with Popokatea in July of 2008. Since then she's designed and developed over 30 websites from tiny microsites through to sites for complex data presentation. Before focussing on Popokatea full-time, Laura worked in the nonprofit / third sector for over 15 years, and supported a wide range of organisations and communities with their knowledge and information development, and their collaborative partnership working.

Laura mostly works alone on projects, but for larger web and data projects and event reporting works with a small team of superbly skilled associates to be able to deliver the best service to fulfil your needs.

Where does the name Popokatea come from?

In New Zealand there is a bird known as Popokatea, the Whitehead (Mohoua albicilla). Laura likes wildlife and birds.

Bringing fresh & creative design with a focus on user experience and interaction. Popokatea delivers a wide range of services including web design and development, identity & print design, event reporting, training & consultancy.