Website design and development that earns its keep
Fast, search-ready sites your team can run without us
Your website is the only salesperson working at 2am in three time zones at once, so we build it accordingly. Fast enough to pass Core Web Vitals on launch day, structured so search engines and AI assistants can read it, and editable by your team without raising a ticket. Fixed scope, a clickable prototype before any code, a staging URL from week one.
Website design and development, done properly
Most websites fail quietly. They look perfectly nice, they load eventually, and nobody fills in the form. The gap between that site and one that brings in business is rarely the visual design. It is speed, structure, how plainly the offer is stated, and whether the people who need to publish can do it without a developer.
We have built sites since 2013, first in WordPress and PHP, now mostly in Next.js, WordPress and Shopify, chosen on the basis of who maintains the thing after we leave. Every project runs through the same four stages: discovery ending in a written problem statement, a clickable prototype in your brand, a build shipped in two-week slices to a staging URL, and then a growth phase if you want the same engineers running the search and conversion work.
What comes with every build
- A performance budget: Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds on a mid-range Android phone, measured on a throttled connection before launch.
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility as an acceptance criterion, checked with a keyboard and a screen reader rather than an automated score.
- Structured data, clean URLs, sitemaps and metadata handled in the templates, so a new page arrives correct.
- A CMS your team can genuinely use, plus an editor guide and a screen recording of your own site.
- Hosting, monitoring and thirty days of fixes after launch.
Redesign or rebuild
If the content is good and the shell is the problem, a website redesign keeps your URLs and rankings and replaces the front end. If the platform itself is the problem, slow, unpatched, impossible to edit, then it is a rebuild with a URL map so nothing is lost on the way. The free review tells you which of the two you are looking at, and we have talked people out of the expensive option more than once. Our notes on modern web development practices explain the standards we hold to.
Our web design and development services
Custom web design
Design from a written brief and a prototype you click through, not a marketplace template with your logo dropped into it.
Responsive development
One codebase across every screen, tested on real devices including the mid-range Android phones most of your visitors carry.
Ecommerce development
Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento stores with payments, shipping rules and tax configured and tested against real orders.
Explore →CMS development
WordPress and headless setups where the fields match how your marketing team thinks, so publishing does not need a developer.
Explore →Web applications
Portals, dashboards, booking and quoting systems in Next.js, Node and Laravel, with the boring parts like roles and audit logs included.
Maintenance & support
Updates, uptime and Core Web Vitals monitoring, backups and small improvements on a monthly retainer with fixed hours.
How a website project runs
Discoverweek 1–2
Two workshops, a technical and analytics review, and a written problem statement you sign off before anyone opens a design tool.
Prototypeweek 2–4
Wireframes, then a clickable prototype in your brand. You approve the actual thing rather than a slide describing it.
Buildweek 4–8
Staging URL from the first sprint, two-week slices, with speed, accessibility and schema checked at the end of each one.
Launchweek 8–9
URL map and redirects, analytics and Search Console, monitoring switched on, then thirty days of fixes at no charge.
Growongoing
If you want it, the same engineers carry on with SEO, content and conversion work on a monthly retainer.
From $2,500/project
Brochure and service websites from $2,500; ecommerce and web applications typically $8,000–$40,000. Fixed price after discovery.
Web development, answered
How long does it take to build a website?
Four to eight weeks from kickoff to launch for a brochure or services site, eight to sixteen for ecommerce and web applications. You see a clickable prototype before code exists and a staging URL from the first sprint. In practice, content readiness decides whether we hit the earlier date.
Will I be able to update the site myself?
Yes, and we test that before handover by watching somebody on your team add a page. Every build comes with a CMS set up around your content, a short editor guide and a recording of your own site rather than a generic manual.
How much does a website cost?
From $2,500 for a brochure site, and $8,000 to $40,000 for ecommerce and web applications depending on integrations. You get a range in the first reply and a fixed price after discovery. There are no hourly surprises at the end.
Will the site be SEO-friendly?
Structure, speed, metadata, structured data and clean URLs are built into the templates, so the site launches technically sound. Ongoing work, content, links and reporting, is a separate SEO retainer and only worth starting once the site is live.
What happens if something breaks after launch?
Thirty days of fixes are included, and genuine emergencies are handled the same day within our hours. After that a maintenance retainer covers updates, monitoring and small changes, with the hours stated so you know what you have bought.
Which platform should we use?
It depends on who maintains the site once we are gone. Teams that publish weekly do best on WordPress or a headless CMS, stores on Shopify or Magento, and anything with custom logic or heavy traffic on Next.js. We give one recommendation with reasons, not a menu.
A site that works for its living.
Send the URL of your current site, or one sentence about the new one. A senior engineer replies inside a business day.