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Everything a website needs, from the first sketch to the patch you never saw.

Six services. Take them as one package or pick the single piece you are missing. Each one below says plainly what you get and who it suits.

Web design and UI/UX

Best for: a site that looks dated, converts badly, or was never designed for the people actually using it.

We start with the people who use the thing, not with a colour palette. That means talking to your customers or your staff, mapping how they move through the site, and finding the two or three points where they currently give up.

From there we work in wireframes before pixels, so decisions about structure get argued out cheaply. Once the shape is agreed, we design the real interface and hand over a component library your future developers can build from without guessing.

Accessibility is checked as we go, against WCAG 2.2 AA. That is not only a legal question. It is the difference between a form your older customers can complete and one they call you about.

  • Stakeholder and user interviews
  • Journey maps and content structure
  • Low fidelity wireframes
  • Clickable prototype for testing
  • Full interface design in Figma
  • Reusable component and token system
  • Accessibility review to WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Handover documentation for developers

Web development

Best for: marketing sites, editorial platforms and online stores that need to be fast, editable and hard to knock over.

We build in Next.js and React where a site needs speed and custom behaviour, and in WordPress where a team needs to publish without calling a developer. The choice is made on what your staff will realistically maintain, not on what is fashionable this year.

Every build ships with a content model your editors can actually use, image handling that does not destroy page speed, and a deployment pipeline with a staging site, so nothing untested reaches the public.

Stores are built on Shopify or WooCommerce depending on catalogue size, tax handling and how much of the checkout you need to control.

  • Next.js, React or WordPress builds
  • Headless content management setup
  • Shopify and WooCommerce stores
  • Editor training and written guides
  • Staging site and release pipeline
  • Automated testing on core paths
  • Migration from your existing platform
  • Analytics and consent handling

Custom software development

Best for: work currently held together by spreadsheets, email chains and one person who knows how it all fits.

Most of our software work replaces a manual process. A customer portal instead of phoned in orders. A scheduling tool instead of a shared calendar nobody trusts. An integration so your website stops being an island next to your accounting system.

We scope these tightly. The first release does one job properly and goes live in weeks rather than quarters, because software that arrives late has usually solved last year's problem.

You get the source code, the documentation and the accounts. Everything is written so another engineer could take it over, which is how it should be.

  • Customer and staff portals
  • Internal tools and dashboards
  • REST and GraphQL API design
  • Integrations with ERP, CRM and accounting
  • Database design and data migration
  • Role based access control
  • Automated test suite
  • Source code and full documentation

Cyber security

Best for: anyone holding customer data, taking payments, or who has already been hit once and does not want a second time.

We audit what you have, test it the way an attacker would, fix what we find, and then keep watching. The audit report is written in plain language with a ranked fix list, because a report nobody understands changes nothing.

Penetration testing covers your web applications, APIs and login flows. We test against the OWASP Top 10 and against the specific abuse cases your business creates, such as a discount code that can be reused or a portal that leaks one customer's records to another.

If you are already compromised, call the number at the top of this page. Cleanup, forensics and restoring service come first, and the conversation about how it happened comes after you are trading again.

  • Security audit and ranked risk report
  • Penetration testing of web apps and APIs
  • Server, CMS and dependency hardening
  • Web application firewall configuration
  • Malware removal and blacklist recovery
  • Incident response and forensics
  • Backup strategy with tested restores
  • Staff phishing awareness sessions

Website management and care

Best for: businesses with no in house developer, and marketing teams tired of waiting three weeks for a text change.

This is the part most agencies treat as an afterthought and we treat as the main event. Managed hosting, daily offsite backups, patching on a schedule, uptime checks every minute, and a monthly report short enough that you will actually read it.

Every plan includes a block of hours for real work: new pages, campaign landing pages, form changes, whatever the month needs. Unused hours roll over once, so you are not punished for a quiet month.

You get a named contact who knows your site. Not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not a different person every time.

  • Managed hosting with SSL
  • Daily offsite backups, restores tested monthly
  • Core, plugin and dependency patching
  • Uptime and certificate monitoring
  • Monthly hours for changes and new pages
  • Plain language monthly report
  • Named contact, one business day response
  • Annual roadmap and health review

Performance and search visibility

Best for: sites that look fine but load slowly, rank poorly, or cannot prove where their leads come from.

Speed is a business number. We work directly against Core Web Vitals: image handling, font loading, script weight, caching and server response, measured on real devices on real connections rather than on a developer's laptop.

On the search side we handle the technical half honestly. Crawlability, site structure, schema markup, internal linking, redirects and index hygiene. We do not sell keyword packages or promise a position, because nobody can.

Then we set up measurement you can trust, so you can tell which pages bring enquiries and which just bring traffic.

  • Core Web Vitals audit and fixes
  • Image, font and script optimisation
  • Caching and CDN configuration
  • Technical SEO and crawl audit
  • Schema markup and rich results
  • Redirect mapping for migrations
  • Analytics and conversion tracking setup
  • Quarterly performance reporting

Our process

Four stages, in this order, every time.

You approve the end of each stage before the next one starts. That is how we avoid the conversation where a finished build turns out to be the wrong build.

Stage one

Scope

We audit what exists, interview the people who use it, and write down what finished means. You get a fixed scope, a price and a date before anyone starts designing.

Usually one to two weeks
Stage two

Design

Structure first, then interface. Wireframes, then a clickable prototype, then the finished design and component system. Nothing goes to code until you have signed it off.

Usually two to five weeks
Stage three

Build and temper

We code against the approved design, test as we go, then harden: dependency review, access control, firewall rules, backups. Launch happens off a written checklist, never on a Friday.

Usually four to twelve weeks
Stage four

Care

The site moves onto a care plan the day it launches. Patching, monitoring, backups, monthly hours and a report. This part has no end date, which is the point.

Ongoing, monthly

Not sure which you need

Describe the problem. We will tell you which service fixes it.

You do not have to arrive with a specification. Most clients start with a symptom: the site is slow, orders are being missed, Google flagged us, the booking form has stopped sending. Tell us the symptom and we will name the work.

If the answer is that you need less than you thought, or that a cheaper tool would do the job, we will say so. That happens more often than you would expect.

Ready when you are.

Thirty minute call, no charge, no pitch deck. We will ask what you are trying to do and tell you what it takes.