Hubspot theme development
The gold standard for Hubspot builds
Dan MacleodCustom theme development has major advantages over deploying a pre-built theme from the Marketplace.
Site Performance
I’m putting this at the top of the list to reflect the shift in requirements from clients in recent years - design, content and functionality are all important but ultimately marketers want well performing sites that will rank highly and deliver results.
Custom themes are tailored exactly to your requirements, if you only need two different templates and a handful of modules to drive your site, why pull in the dependencies for unused templates and modules? Dependencies could be frontend frameworks consisting of thousands of lines of css/js that will slow your site’s performance; this is all about avoiding code bloat.
Custom themes start from the HS Boilerplate*, a continuously improved and evolving project which deploys current best practise and is stripped back to provide a great performance metric starting point.
*Note custom themes do not 'look' like the Boilerplate, they just use the starting codebase.
On-brand layouts
No template compromises here. Your brand, your layout, your tone of voice…exactly as you intended it.
Intelligent information architecture
Good developers will see patterns and relationships in your site structure and content and deploy it in the most lean and efficient way. This might be about understanding how to use global modules to minimise duplication and maintenance time, reducing template and module variants with configs or using HubDB to serve up dynamic pages. This is all about getting the best out of Hubspot.
Maintenance
Once you open the doors to content creators and enable non-technical users to create and deploy pages portals can quickly become overrun with poorly organised assets, duplicated content and bloated inline code. A well-designed custom module set can lock down aspects of the portal and ensure that maintenance is streamlined and overall performance is not affected (see point 1).
