The web design inspiration you're after

Start with sites outside your industry — a restaurant page will teach you more about pacing than another agency site will. Save what you like in one place, then work out what the shared thread is: usually it's spacing and type, not colour.

Write the page in plain text first. Once the words are in order, the layout mostly designs itself — headings become sections, and the sections become the grid.

Print, packaging, signage and film titles, mostly. Type systems travel between media better than layouts do.

Pick one typeface family, one accent colour and one photographic treatment, then apply them without exception. Consistency reads as intent.

Yes — the editor handles the mechanics. Start from a template close to your content shape and change one thing at a time.

Cut the number of fonts, widen the margins, use real photography, and delete a third of the copy. Those four moves fix most pages.

Browse the Merrow Workroom directory — every listed studio has shipped at least four sites on the platform, with references you can contact.