Capabilities / Websites
Website design and build.Done for you, start to finish.
Most of the businesses we do this for already have a website, but they secretly hope that no-one looks too closely at it. We’re here to change that forever.
Tell us what you need.We’ll show you the way.
We have yet to be shown an idea we could not build. The only thing that has ever decided it is the budget behind it, and you will hear our view on that in week one rather than week six.
We listen to you
A couple of hours of questions is usually the whole of it. Most of what a website needs to say is already in how you explain the business down the phone.
We focus on the outcome
More of the right enquiries, fewer of the wrong ones. That is the thing being designed for, and the page count follows from it.
We make your brand feel alive
A site that moves and responds is not decoration. It is the difference between somebody believing you are the real thing and closing the tab.
What we build here
Three shapes, mostly.
Nearly everything we build is one of these three, and which one you need is usually clear within the first conversation.
Marketing sites
The one people find when they look you up, and the one that has to make your case when nobody is in the room. Most of our work.
Online stores
Product, checkout, stock, and the reconciliation nobody warns you about. Built to talk to whatever you already run the business on.
Landing pages and campaigns
One page, one job, live in days. For a launch, a paid campaign, or an event that is already in the diary.
Built in,not bolted on.
Traditional websites are slow and sluggish because of the sheer number of dependencies and plugins. All of our websites are coded from scratch to industry standard, giving you the same online presence as the big players.
We prioritise these four things in every build:
Connected to what you run
Prices and stock read from the system that already holds them. Enquiries into your CRM with the context attached. A login for your customers, if they need one.
SEO and AIO readiness
Clean markup, a real heading hierarchy, structured data, fast pages, redirects for everything you retire. The answer engines now reading your site want the same things.
Technical performance
Judged on a mid-range phone on a normal connection, not on the machine it was built on. Designed to pass Core Web Vitals rather than patched afterwards to scrape through them.
Security and control
HTTPS, sensible headers, dependencies kept current, and backups somebody has actually tried restoring. None of it lands on you to remember.
How it works
It’s actually really easy.
A typical project looks like:
One call
Tell us what is happening. Twenty minutes is usually enough for us to know whether we are the right people for it, and you will hear either answer.
One number
Fixed and in writing before anything starts. Not a day rate, and not a range that drifts upward once you are past the point of leaving.
4-8 weeks
From that conversation to live, with something real to look at by the second week rather than at the end.
When you are ready
Find out what yours would cost.
Tell us what is happening and we will come back with a fixed number. If we are not the right people for it, you will get told that instead.
Technologies
We do not sell you a stack.We pick the best tool for the job.
We are not a reseller and nobody pays us to recommend anything. So the choice follows your requirements, and thanks to our talented network of collaborators, we have a team for everything.
Where it lives
The right server for the job.
Where a site lives is a decision rather than a default. We pick per project on two things: how fast it has to be, and how cleanly it runs.
Vercel
Edge delivery for our Next.js work, so pages are served from near whoever asked for them, and it scales without anybody watching it.
Krystal
UK based, run on renewable energy and a certified B Corp. Where a site should stay on this island and the footprint matters.
AWS
When there is an application behind the website. Regions, backups and the compliance work smaller hosts cannot match.
Before you ask
The questions we always get asked.
How much of this actually lands on us?
A couple of hours of questions near the start, and then reading what we send back. You will not be handed a brief to fill in or an asset list to chase. When we need something we ask once, in one place, rather than emailing you every few days.
We have tried to get a website done before and it stalled. Why would this be different?
Because the part that stalls is almost never the design or the build, it is the words, and we do not sit waiting for you to write them. We get them out of you in a conversation and send you a draft to correct, which is a much easier job than starting from nothing.
Can we edit it ourselves afterwards?
Tell us at the start if you want to and we will build it that way. Most of the businesses we work with would rather send us a message and have it done properly, so that is what we set up unless you say otherwise.
Do you use WordPress?
When it is the right tool, which is more often than the industry likes to admit. If your team publishes regularly, WordPress editing is still better than most of what has replaced it. If the site is mostly static or has an application behind it, we would use something else and say so.
Can you work with the brand we already have?
Yes, and usually we do. If the brand is the actual problem rather than the site, we will say that too, and that is a different piece of work.
What do you do about SEO?
The technical half is built in and not sold separately: clean markup, a real heading hierarchy, fast pages, structured data, sensible URLs and redirects for everything you retire. The other half is content, and no agency can do that part without you.
We already have a site we quite like. Can you just fix it?
Sometimes. If it is well built and just neglected, fixing it is cheaper than replacing it and we will tell you so. If it was built on something that is now holding you hostage, replacing it is the cheaper answer even though it does not feel like it.
No pitch, no deck
Tell us what isactually happening.
Describe the mess in your own words. We will say what we think is going on underneath it, and whether there is anything we could usefully do about it.
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