Concept directions v1
The Vault
Heritage and authority
Your logo on a deep midnight ground with the gold gradient you already use, built around the three signature Ceylon hues and your provenance map. Photography led, unhurried, and unmistakably a merchant rather than a retailer. The safest, most established of the three.
- Full bleed sapphire macro hero
- Signature hue cards, cornflower, royal blue, padparadscha
- Heritage timeline from 1978 to Melbourne today
- Your Sri Lanka provenance map with the three regions
- All six services and the five point difference
The Collection
Explore the colour
Light, warm and editorial on your rose and copper palette. The centrepiece is a live hue explorer: tap a colour and the stone, its character and its cut change on the spot. Best for holding attention and teaching people what Ceylon actually produces.
- Interactive eight hue explorer
- Swipeable vault strip of your own photography
- Services as an open and close list
- Provenance regions as tabs on the map
The Private Enquiry
Built to convert
Your three step enquiry sits in the hero, so a consultation request starts before anyone scrolls. Interest, then the stone, then contact details. This is the one to point paid advertising at, where every click has to earn its money.
- Three step qualifier above the fold
- Progress bar and a what happens next panel
- Hue swatches instead of a plain dropdown
- Sticky call and book bar on mobile
Reference
Your current website
Open side by side with any concept above to compare. Nothing on your live site has been touched.
What is real and what is a placeholder
Nothing here has been invented. Everything below the first list is either marked as a placeholder or left out rather than guessed.
Real, taken from your business
- Your exact brand palette, read out of your live stylesheet. The gold, copper and rose ramps are your values, not a match by eye
- Your fonts, Poppins, Montserrat and Great Vibes for the script
- Your logo, both the gold and the reversed white lockup
- Every photograph is one of your own, including your Sri Lanka provenance map
- Your own words throughout, tidied into Australian English
- Your six services, your five point difference, and your fourteen stone varieties
- Ratnapura, Elahera and Okkampitiya, exactly as you describe them
- Since 1978, three generations, GAA qualified, by appointment only
- Your phone, email and the Collins Street address
Placeholder until you confirm
- Every enquiry form is a demo. Nothing is sent and nothing is stored
- No reviews or testimonials anywhere, because none are published on your site to carry across
- No prices. The budget bands in concept 3 are enquiry ranges, not your pricing
- No stock list, carat weights or certificate numbers. Stone photographs illustrate a hue, they are not live inventory
- No team names or photos, and no client names
- The hue names on each stone photograph are our reading of the colour against your published variety list, worth a check by you
- All four pages are set to noindex, so Google will not touch them
What these fix on the current site
- The homepage is invisible until the visitor moves. A full screen loading veil sits over everything and only lifts once the mouse moves or the page is scrolled. We measured it still blank nine seconds after load. Anyone who lands and pauses, and every preview bot, sees an empty screen.
- Sharing the link shows no preview. There is not a single social preview tag on the page, so a link pasted into WhatsApp, Facebook or a text message arrives bare.
- Nothing for search or AI search to read. There is no structured data on the page and no sitemap at the usual address, so neither Google nor an AI answer engine can tell what the business is or where it operates.
- The page is set to United States English. It should be Australian English for an appointment only Melbourne merchant.
- The page title is just the two words Sapphire World. No mention of Ceylon sapphires, of merchants, or of Melbourne, which is what people actually search for.
- A full shopping platform is loaded on every page with nothing to sell through it, which is weight and risk for no return.
- Your own copy contradicts itself. The page description says second generation while the page body says three generations. Worth settling on one.
All seven were checked against the live site on 29 July 2026. Your current site is untouched.