Web Design & Development
Websites engineered to load fast and close faster
A website is not a brochure. It is the last step before someone becomes a customer. We build sites that load fast, read clearly on a phone, carry the schema markup search engines expect, and report every conversion back to the campaign that paid for it.
Our bias
Fewer plugins, fewer problems
A lot of agency sites are a page builder stacked on a theme stacked on twenty-six plugins. They look fine on the designer's laptop and take six seconds to load on a phone on 4G, which is where most of your traffic actually is.
We build lean. Hand-written templates, minimal dependencies, images served in modern formats, critical CSS inlined. The result is a site that scores well on Core Web Vitals not because we optimised it afterwards, but because it was never bloated to begin with.
What is included
What a build includes
Design
A visual identity that does not look like the template three of your competitors bought.
- Discovery on audience, offer and objections
- Wireframes before any visual design
- Full design system: type, colour, components
- Mobile-first layouts
- Logo and brand refresh where needed
- Two structured revision rounds
Build
Clean, dependency-light code you or any other developer can maintain.
- Hand-built responsive templates
- CMS so your team can edit without a developer
- Schema markup on every page type
- Blog, careers, portfolio or booking modules
- Form handling with spam protection
- Staging environment for review
Performance and SEO foundation
The technical groundwork that makes future marketing cheaper.
- Core Web Vitals optimisation
- Image compression and modern formats
- Semantic HTML and heading hierarchy
- XML sitemap and robots configuration
- Redirect mapping on migrations
- Search Console and Analytics connected
E-commerce
When the site has to take money as well as generate interest.
- Shopify or custom storefront builds
- Product feed setup for Shopping and PMax
- Checkout optimisation and abandoned-cart flows
- Payment and shipping configuration
- Product schema and rich results
- Server-side purchase event tracking
Timeline
What the schedule usually looks like
Discovery and structure
Audience, offers, competitor review, sitemap and wireframes signed off before a single pixel is designed.
Design
Key templates designed and reviewed, design system locked, remaining pages built from it.
Build and content
Templates coded, CMS wired up, content migrated or written, tracking installed on staging.
QA and launch
Cross-browser and device testing, speed pass, redirects mapped, launch, then a two-week watch period.
FAQ
Web development questions
How much does a website cost?
Marketing sites typically run $4,500 to $18,000 depending on page count, custom functionality and whether we write the content. Single campaign landing pages start at $1,200. E-commerce builds are quoted individually.
How long does it take?
A standard marketing site is around eight weeks from kickoff to launch. Landing pages take one to two weeks. The most common cause of delay is content and feedback turnaround on the client side, so we build a schedule with those dates written in.
Do you build on WordPress?
When it fits, yes. Usually with a lean custom theme rather than a page builder. For campaign sites and lead generation funnels we often build custom, because it is faster and there is far less to maintain. We will recommend based on who has to update the site after launch.
Do you host the site?
We can, or we will deploy to your hosting. Either way the domain and the code belong to you and you get full access at handover.
What happens after launch?
Every build includes 30 days of post-launch support for bugs and adjustments. After that you can take it in-house, or put us on a monthly care plan covering updates, backups, security monitoring and a set number of change hours.
Is your site the bottleneck?
Send us your URL. We will run a speed, accessibility and conversion review and tell you whether a rebuild is genuinely worth it, or whether three fixes would do.
Written findings in three business days. No call required.