Website development
Web Design and Development
We design and build websites for UK businesses that need the site to do a job — take bookings, sell products, or turn visitors into enquiries. Not a brochure that looks nice and converts nobody.
Who this is for
A good fit if
- You have a site that looks dated, loads slowly, or nobody enquires through
- You are launching and need the first version done properly
- You are on a platform that fights you every time you want to change something
Probably not if
- You want the cheapest possible site — there are template services for that, and they are fine
- You need a complex web application rather than a marketing site
What's included.
A build on the right platform
Shopify for product businesses, WordPress where you need a familiar editor, Astro or React where speed and control matter most. We pick based on who maintains it after launch, not on what we prefer to build.
Mobile-first, genuinely
Most UK local search happens on a phone. Every layout is designed at phone width first and tested on real device widths, not just resized in a browser.
Core Web Vitals as a requirement
Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5s, Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.1, Interaction to Next Paint under 200ms — measured on a throttled mobile connection before launch, not assumed.
SEO foundations wired in
Server-rendered HTML, a unique title and description per page, canonical tags pointing at your own domain, an XML sitemap, robots.txt, and structured data. Retrofitting these later costs far more than building them in.
Analytics and conversion tracking
Set up before launch so you can tell which pages produce enquiries, rather than guessing for three months and then trying to reconstruct it.
A handover you actually own
Code, domain, hosting, analytics and any advertising accounts are transferred to you at launch. They stay yours whether or not you keep working with us.
What it costs
Quoted against a written scope.
The quote is in your hands within 48 hours of a scoping call. No open-ended day rates, and no number that moves after you have signed.
How it runs.
Scope
We agree what the site needs to do, what pages that requires, and what it will cost — in writing, before anything is designed.
Design
Key page templates first, reviewed at phone and desktop width. Once the templates are agreed, the remaining pages are content work rather than new design.
Build
You get a staging link early and watch it come together. One named point of contact throughout.
Launch
Redirects mapped from old URLs, Search Console verified, sitemap submitted, analytics confirmed firing, and a walkthrough of how to edit what you need to edit.
Most marketing sites take a few weeks from agreed scope to launch, driven mostly by how quickly content and feedback come back. We give you a specific date at scoping, not a range on a web page.
Questions.
Which platform will you build on?
It depends on who maintains the site afterwards and what it has to do. Shopify for product sales, WordPress where a non-technical team needs to edit daily, Astro where speed and search performance matter most. We will tell you the trade-offs before you commit.
Will I be able to edit it myself?
Yes. We agree which parts you need to edit before we build, and the handover includes a walkthrough. If you want us to handle changes instead, that is a separate ongoing arrangement.
What happens to my existing search rankings?
Every old URL is mapped to its new equivalent with a 301 redirect before launch. Done properly, a migration preserves rankings; skipped, it is the most common way sites lose traffic overnight.
Want to talk about your project.
Thirty minutes, no deck, no pressure. You will leave knowing roughly what it costs and how long it takes — even if you build it elsewhere.