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Thanks for all the comments. The remarks about the nav are really helpful - we'll look at addressing that as I think the focus slipped as we got closer to launch. Regarding the 'cleanliness' - yeah, that was the aim, both for potential clients' experience and our ease of updating internally.
On that note, I've been a digital designer for 15 years and I, too, baulked at the use of Wordpress in the early stages of this project. It seemed like we were cutting corners, taking shortcuts and using a non-'proper'-designer tool. But, in practice, we are a very small company and we are busier than we've ever been. We needed a new site quickly, we needed it to be Optimised and we needed it to be easily and quickly updatable by all employees. There was no way we were going to bespoke everything. To that end, Wordpress completely ticked all the boxes.
I actually think calling a creative company out because they're using Wordpress or any other off the shelf solution is a bit snobbish and is itself a 'lazy' argument. The users we are appealing to are current and potential clients and lots of them are using or considering Wordpress or similar technologies for their own sites for the same reasons we did for ours. Straight talking, effective design actually does = what we have here when you consider our current and prospective clients. An overblown, expensive, bespoke and lengthy reinvention of "The Web Page" is, in our experience, not what our clients are looking for at this moment in time.
I used to sneer at designers who used Windows rather than Mac OS, but I was young and foolish then ;)