Web design and development
The site is designed for user engagement rather than creative masturbation. It looks on-brand through and through, except the elements are fluid and adapt to best suit the device it's being accessed on.
What you are buying
Four things, and the fourth is the one most studios quietly drop when the date gets close.
Built on your system
Same team, same nine weeks, same decisions. Nothing gets reinterpreted on the way in.
Editable by you
Everything you change routinely, you change yourself. No ticket, no quote, no two-week wait.
Fast on a bad connection
Tested on a phone on mobile data, because that is where half of your traffic reads it.
Accessible, and evidenced
Contrast, focus order and keyboard paths tested before launch, with the results written down.
What ships
| Item | Included | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Design | Yes | Every template, at three widths |
| Build | Yes | Hand-built, no page-builder plugin underneath |
| CMS and training | Yes | One session, recorded by you if you want it |
| Accessibility evidence | Yes | The tests we ran and what they returned |
| Redirect map | Yes | Every old URL pointed somewhere deliberate |
| Analytics | Set up, not configured | We will install it; what you measure is your decision |
| Ongoing content | No | We write the structure, you write the stock |
A website is not a picture of a brand. It is the first place the system has to survive somebody else typing into it.
Week four, on a real URL
Not a prototype and not a picture — the actual site, on a staging address, with your own words going into it. Seeing it early changes what people ask for, and it changes it while changing it is still cheap.
The awkward questions
Who maintains it afterwards?
You do, for everything routine — text, images, pages, navigation, posts. For anything structural you can take a retainer, or you can call us per project, or you can take it to somebody else entirely. Nothing in the build is proprietary to us and nothing about it is designed to make leaving hard.
Can we keep our current CMS?
Sometimes. If it is something we can build cleanly into, yes, and we will say so in week one. If it is a licence you are locked into that will fight the design for nine weeks, we will tell you that instead, and you can decide whether the licence or the site matters more. We would rather have that conversation before you pay us.
What about SEO?
We do the structural part — clean URLs, real headings, fast pages, sensible metadata, a redirect map that does not throw away what you have earned. We do not take SEO retainers and we are not the people to run a content programme for you. Ask and we will give you two names.
We already have a site. Is this a rebuild or a reskin?
A rebuild, always. A reskin puts new paint on the structure that is the actual problem, and it costs nearly the same. If your structure is genuinely sound and you only want it to look like the new brand, say so on the first call — that is a smaller piece of work and we will price it as one.
Show us your current website
We will tell you what is worth keeping. That part is free and it takes us an hour.
Let's talk