The Circle, four offers, one site.

Each of the four offers was given its own colour, used consistently from the navigation through to the inside pages. Once a visitor has landed in the workspaces strand, the colour tells them they are still in it, and tells them instantly when they have crossed into something else.

It sounds like decoration and it is actually the information architecture. It is also the reason the homepage can give all four equal billing without the rest of the site becoming a maze.

Four brand colours that each need to carry text, backgrounds and interactive states at readable contrast is a genuine design constraint rather than a preference. Several obvious choices had to be adjusted until every combination held up.

Alongside that, the ordinary accessibility work: a sensible heading order, keyboard navigation that goes where you expect, alt text that describes rather than labels, and type that stays readable when somebody scales it up.

Not every site should be WordPress, and plenty on this site are not. This one should: The Circle publishes news, events and availability constantly, and the people doing that cannot be waiting on a developer.

So the theme was rebuilt from the ground up rather than bought and bent. Editors get components that produce correct, accessible, on-brand pages by default, which is the only version of a content management system that stays tidy a year later.