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Web Development

Fast, accessible, maintainable front-ends and headless CMS builds your own team can actually run.

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A site you cannot edit is a site that rots.

We have inherited too many builds where adding a page meant filing a ticket, and where the performance score fell off a cliff three months after launch because nobody set a budget.

So we build against agreed numbers, document as we go, and hand over something your team can own. If you never call us again, the build should still be working in three years.

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What this actually covers.

Six areas of work. On most engagements you will need four of them; we will tell you which.

Front-end engineering

Semantic HTML, modern CSS and only as much JavaScript as the job needs. No framework chosen because it was on a conference slide.

Headless & traditional CMS

Sanity, Storyblok, Contentful, Craft or WordPress — picked for how your team writes, not for what we feel like building.

Performance budgets

Core Web Vitals targets agreed before we start and enforced in CI. If a change blows the budget, the build fails, not the launch.

Integrations

CRM, marketing automation, ERP, payment, booking and analytics wired up properly, with error handling you can see rather than silent failures.

Accessibility & QA

Automated checks plus manual keyboard and screen-reader passes on every template, across the browsers your analytics say people use.

Handover & support

Written documentation, a recorded walkthrough, and a support window while your team finds its feet. Optional retainer after that, never compulsory.

What you get.

Every item below is a real artefact handed to you, not a phase name on a timeline.

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  • 01Component-driven front-end built to your design system
  • 02CMS configured around how your team actually writes
  • 03Staging environment from week one
  • 04Performance and accessibility budgets enforced in CI
  • 05Third-party integrations with monitoring
  • 06Written documentation and a recorded walkthrough
  • 0730 days of post-launch support included

How we work together.

Three shapes of engagement. We quote against scope after a conversation — no published rate card, because no two of these projects are the same size.

Sprint

Two to four weeks

A defined question answered: an audit, a diagnosis, a prototype. Fixed price, fixed dates, written output you keep whatever happens next.

Project

Two to five months

The full piece of work, staged with agreed milestones and a payment schedule tied to them. The most common way clients work with us.

Retainer

Rolling, quarterly review

An agreed block of senior time each month for ongoing work. Reviewed every quarter, cancellable with notice, never auto-renewed in silence.

Questions we get asked.

Which tech stack do you use?

It depends on the job. Static or server-rendered for content sites, a headless CMS where editors need freedom, a traditional CMS where they need guard rails. We will explain the trade-off in plain language and let you decide.

Will we be locked in to you?

No. You own the repository, the CMS account and the hosting from day one. Everything is documented and the handover includes a walkthrough recording. Lock-in is a business model, not an engineering necessity.

Can you take over a site someone else built?

Frequently. We start with a paid audit so both sides know what we are dealing with before committing — occasionally that audit concludes a rebuild is cheaper than a rescue, and we will say so.

Do you do hosting?

We will set it up on your account with your provider and configure deployments, monitoring and backups. We would rather you owned the infrastructure than rented it from us.