Design & layout repair
The site aged. The layout noticed first.
Columns that collapsed after some update, sections overlapping like shuffled cards, fonts that quietly reverted, spacing that drifted until nothing lines up — design rot is real, and it repairs without burning the site down.
How design rots — one small change at a time.
Layouts rarely break in one dramatic event. They erode: a theme update nudges a container, a new plugin injects its own styles, someone pastes styled content from Word, a banner gets added 'just for now' — and eighteen months later the site looks like it was assembled during turbulence. Each fix another patch, each patch another inconsistency.
Repair means finding the actual structure under the drift: which styles are the design and which are the scar tissue. The scar tissue goes; the design gets re-asserted — often in less code than the patches used. It's the same principle as any restoration: remove the bad repairs before repairing the original.
Consistency is a repair, not a luxury.
A visitor can't articulate why a site feels untrustworthy when headings change size between pages and buttons wear three different styles — but they feel it, and they compare it against competitors whose sites hold together. Design repair closes with a consistency pass: one heading scale, one button language, one spacing rhythm, applied sitewide so future edits inherit order instead of chaos.
Where the design itself — not its condition — is the problem, that's the upgrade conversation, and we'll tell you plainly which side of the line your site is on.
Layout ailments we repair.
The visual entropy catalog — reversed within your existing design.
Collapsed & shuffled layouts
Columns stacking wrong, sections overlapping, grids gone rogue after updates.
Font & style drift
Typefaces reverting, sizes wandering, three button styles where one belongs.
Spacing chaos
Margins and padding eroded by patches — the rhythm restored sitewide.
Pasted-content damage
Word-processor styling and rogue markup cleaned from the content.
Plugin style collisions
Third-party CSS fighting the theme — refereed and contained.
The consistency pass
One scale, one language, one rhythm — so edits stop compounding chaos.
Single Error Fix — buy it now, skip the hunt.
One error, hunted down and fixed — 500s, white screens, redirect loops, broken pages.
Covers one specific error or broken behavior on one site. Diagnosis, the fix, and a plain-English note on what happened. If we can't fix it, you get a full refund.
Questions we hear a lot.
Can you fix the layout without changing the design?
That's the definition of this service: the design you chose, back in the condition you chose it in. Repair re-asserts the original structure and removes the drift; it redesigns nothing without being asked.
Why does my site look different on every page?
Age and patches: different eras of edits, different editors, pasted styling, and plugin CSS have each left sediment. The repair identifies the true design system underneath and reapplies it — usually removing code rather than adding it.
Is this cosmetic or does it matter to revenue?
Both: visual coherence is a trust signal customers act on without naming, and layout breakage frequently hides functional damage — overlapping sections eating buttons, drifted forms losing fields off-screen. Several 'cosmetic' repairs here have un-buried a working call-to-action.
What does layout repair cost?
Single-page or single-ailment fixes commonly land at the $229 flat fix; a sitewide consistency pass gets a written flat quote after we've seen the sediment depth. Either way, the design survives and the meter doesn't run.
Adjacent help
Sign-in rarely travels alone. Here's what usually rides with it.
Reverse the entropy.
Send the pages that hurt to look at. Same-day diagnosis of what drifted, flat quote to put it right — design intact.