Client
Dates For Diz
Industry
Disney Travel Planning
Location
Long Island, NY
Services
Web Design · Build
Year
2025
Case study
A niche service that finally looks the part.
Dates For Diz helps families plan Disney vacations the right way, custom itineraries, park strategy, and insider knowledge most travelers won’t find on their own. The service was real. The website wasn’t doing it justice. We fixed that in a week.
The situation
A specialist service with a generalist website.
Disney vacation planning is a legitimate niche with real demand — families spend $5,000 to $15,000+ on a Disney trip and the logistics are genuinely complex. Park-hopper rules, Genie+ optimization, dining reservations, character experience timing, crowd calendars. A certified Disney planner brings real value.
The original site didn’t communicate any of that. It looked like a template built in 45 minutes — which it was. The expertise wasn’t visible and the booking path wasn’t clear. Potential clients who found the site through search had no reason to trust it over a Google search on their own.
“The goal wasn’t to make it beautiful. It was to make it believable,so a family on the fence would pick up the phone.”
The constraint
One week. One shot.
This was a fast-turnaround build. The brief was simple: take a real expert, make them look like one online, don’t overcomplicate it. That discipline — knowing what to leave out — was as much the work as what went in.
Project scope
What got built.
Pages designed & built
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Homepage with booking CTA above fold
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About page with credentials and story
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Services overview (Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Cruise)
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How it works (3-step process)
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Contact and inquiry form
Technical deliverables
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Framer build, mobile-responsive
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Brand color system (Disney warm without IP)
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On-page SEO and meta tags
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Inquiry form connected to email
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Custom domain and launch
The design problem
Disney-adjacent without Disney IP.
Challenge
Warm and magical without the mouse
Disney’s visual identity is legally protected and instantly recognizable. The palette, the wordmarks, the character silhouettes — all off limits. The site needed to evoke the feeling of Disney without using any of it.
Solution
Warmth through color and type
A warm amber-orange palette and an italic serif that reads as adventurous. No castle graphics, no star bursts — the Disney-adjacent feeling comes entirely from the emotional register of the color choices and copy tone.
Challenge
Making expertise visible fast
A travel planner competing with a five-second Google search needs to prove value before the visitor bounces. The homepage had to answer “why use a planner?” in the first scroll.
Solution
Lead with the complexity
The hero copy names the actual problem: Disney trips are overwhelming, the variables are real, and getting it wrong is expensive. That specificity does more persuasion work than any generic opener.
How it was built
Five days, start to live.
Day 1–2
Brief + architecture
One conversation to understand the service, the client, and the competition. Site map locked. Copy direction set. No mood boards, no multi-round concepting.
Day 3–4
Design + build
Five pages designed and built in Framer simultaneously. Copy written during build — not as a separate phase. Design decisions and copy decisions informed each other in real time.
Day 5
Review + launch
One revision round. Custom domain pointed. Site live. The speed wasn’t a compromise — it was the discipline of knowing what the site needed to accomplish and not adding work it didn’t.
The outcome
“It finally looks like what the service actually is — not just a website I built on a weekend. Clients come in already convinced.”
Dates For Diz
Disney Travel Planner, Long Island NY
What was delivered
5-page Framer site, live in 5 days
Mobile-responsive across all breakpoints
On-page SEO and local meta tags
Booking inquiry form connected to email
Brand identity system (colors, type, tone)
Your business is next.
One conversation before anything else. Tell me what you’re building and I’ll tell you honestly if I’m the right fit.