A complete redesign of dubemanikaihwacha.com — rebuilt to the standard of the world’s leading corporate law firms, in DMH’s own charcoal and maroon, with the firm’s own photography and voice. This proposal presents the new design, what changes, the value it creates, and the investment required.
Since 1998, Dube, Manikai & Hwacha has grown into one of Zimbabwe’s leading business law firms — nine partners, five specialist units, Chambers Global recognition, and a client base running from start-ups to conglomerates. Yet the firm’s website runs on a consumer site-builder (Webnode): stock Unsplash photography stands in for the firm’s own excellent portraits, the tagline still reads “26 years”, expertise pages are thin, and there is no About page telling the founding story.
We have redesigned and rebuilt the full website — six consolidated pages — drawing on the design language of the world’s leading corporate firms: confident typography, the firm’s real photography, visible rankings, and a clear enquiry path on every page.
Nothing about the brand changes. The DMH logo is untouched and the identity — the charcoal, the maroon of the logomark, the firm’s own team photography — is applied exactly as-is, only more consistently and more confidently.
What changes is everything around it: structure, typography, messaging, mobile experience, speed and conversion. The result is a website that carries the standing of the firm — and turns the referral moment into an instruction.
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 six pages — Home, About the Firm, Expertise, Our People, News & Publications and Contact — delivered with this proposal.
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All six 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | ✕Built on Webnode, a consumer website builder — template constraints, builder branding in the code, and limited control over speed and structure. | ✓Hand-built, owned outright. Roughly 30KB of clean code per page — no builder, no lock-in, nothing between the firm and its website. |
| Photography | ✕Expertise pages illustrated with Unsplash stock photos — anonymous laptops and handshakes credited to foreign photographers. | ✓The firm’s own excellent photography everywhere: the partners’ portraits and the team photograph that already exists on the home page, given the treatment it deserves. |
| First impression | ✕A template hero with the firm name overlaid on a dark photo, and a tagline frozen at “celebrating 26 years” — two years out of date. | ✓A confident hero on the firm’s own team photograph: “Established 1998 · Harare”, an accurate story, and two clear actions. |
| Heritage & story | ✕No About page. The 1998 founding, the three name partners and the firm’s growth are nowhere told. | ✓A dedicated About the Firm page: the founding story, the ethos (honesty, expertise, availability, advocacy) and the firm’s structure — nine partners, five units, forty-plus people. |
| Expertise | ✕Five thin sub-pages, several relying on a single paragraph and a stock image. | ✓One authoritative Expertise page: every unit fully described with its services and its leading partner named — Dube, Manikai, Matambo, Kondongwe — anchored for direct linking. |
| Our people | ✕Partner profiles of uneven depth; the three founders appear only as names; no structure between founders, partners and team. | ✓A structured Our People page: founders honoured first, the partnership presented with photographs where they exist, and the full team acknowledged. |
| Recognition | ✕Chambers Global and Mondaq appear as logos with little framing. | ✓Rankings surfaced as a dedicated Recognition section on the home page — Chambers Global, Mondaq guides, regional governance training — where prospects decide. |
| Mobile experience | ✕Template-builder output compressed onto the phone; heavy images on mobile data. | ✓Mobile-first and data-light — built for the phone screens most Zimbabwean clients and referrers actually use. |
| Conversion | ✕One “Get in touch” button on the home page; no persistent enquiry path; no click-to-call. | ✓A “Get in Touch” button in the sticky header of every page, click-to-call numbers throughout, and an enquiry form that routes by unit. |
| Search visibility | ✕Builder-generated metadata on a generic domain structure. | ✓Per-page titles and meta descriptions, semantic structure and fast loads — aimed at “corporate law firm Harare”, “investment lawyer Zimbabwe”, “conveyancing Harare”. |
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.
Corporate work arrives by referral and reputation. When a general counsel or investor checks DMH online, the new site confirms the firm’s standing instead of diluting it.
DMH already owns outstanding photography — the team portrait, the partners. The redesign replaces anonymous stock imagery with the people clients will actually meet.
1998, three founders, nine partners, five units, Chambers recognition — the About page gives the firm the narrative its history has earned.
Fast, semantic pages with proper metadata, aimed at the searches that matter: “corporate law firm Harare”, “investment lawyer Zimbabwe”, “company secretarial Harare”.
Data-light pages, click-to-call numbers and thumb-friendly navigation that respect mobile data.
Clean, owned code — ready for the publications library, partner biographies, or client resources whenever the firm is. DMH Trust gets the visibility a revenue line deserves.
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, partner profiles, and any additional photography.
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 DMH website can be live in under two weeks.