Building Trust Through Design: Consistent Spacing for Engineering Firms

Wheatley Digital
3 min readJun 10, 2024

In the engineering world, precision and reliability are everything. These principles should extend to your company’s website.

Having worked with dozens of engineering firms, we’ve seen firsthand how a consistent, thoughtful design can boost average contract values and sales.

Your website is a crucial tool for showcasing your expertise and earning the trust of potential clients.

At Wheatley Digital, we design websites with meticulous attention to margins and padding within a well-defined layout system to ensure your online presence reflects the same precision and reliability that define your work.

The Power of 12: A Structured Foundation

Our layout is built on a solid 12-column grid system, which helps organise your website’s content. Each column is the same width, making it easy to arrange elements and ensuring a predictable user experience. We further improve this structure with consistent margins of 45px on the outside edges and 24px gutters between columns. These margins and gutters create clear separation and breathing room for your content, giving it a professional look.

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Wheatley Digital
Wheatley Digital

Written by Wheatley Digital

We help engineering companies go from invisible to visible in 8 weeks without compromise.