Website development
Most business websites are brochures nobody reads. They were built once, signed off, and then left alone, and the people who own them have quietly stopped expecting them to bring in work.
We build sites that load fast, can be found, and turn a visitor into an enquiry. Then we keep them running. Domain, hosting and email are handled here too, so when something breaks there is one person to call rather than three suppliers pointing at each other.
When people call us about this
- Your site was built years ago and nobody has touched it since.
- You are invisible in search for the things you actually sell.
- Enquiries come from word of mouth and nowhere else.
- Your domain is with one company, hosting with another and email with a third.
- You are embarrassed to send the link to a prospect.
What we build
Sites built to be found
Correct titles, descriptions, canonical tags, structured data and a sitemap that agrees with itself. Unglamorous, and the reason a page appears in search at all rather than sitting there invisibly.
Built to convert, not to decorate
One clear action per page, in one consistent place. Most business sites lose enquiries not because they look wrong but because a visitor cannot tell what they are meant to do next.
Fast on a phone
Most of your visitors are on mobile data. Images sized properly, heavy work deferred until after the page has painted, nothing loading that nobody looks at.
Domain, hosting and email
Set up, pointed at each other correctly and maintained. Including the parts that quietly break, like email deliverability records nobody remembers configuring.
Kept running afterwards
Updates, fixes and changes as the business changes. A site that is not maintained is a site that is slowly going wrong.
How it works
What is it for
Before anything is designed we agree what the site is supposed to do. Bring in enquiries, explain a complicated service, prove you are real to somebody checking you out. Those are different sites.
Build it
You see it before it goes live, on a real URL, on your phone. Changes happen while it is being built rather than in a list of regrets afterwards.
Launch and keep it
Live, with search set up properly, analytics reporting, and someone still responsible for it next year.
How long, and what it costs
A straightforward site is usually two to four weeks from first conversation to live. Longer if content needs writing, which it usually does, and that is the part that slips rather than the build.
Price depends on scope, and we would rather look first than quote a range that turns out to be wrong for you. The first conversation is fifteen minutes and costs nothing.
Common questions
Do you use WordPress?
Usually not. Most of what we build is a modern static or server rendered site, which is faster, cheaper to host and has nothing to keep patched. If your team needs to edit pages daily we will talk about a content system, but a five page business site rarely needs one.
Can you work with our existing site?
Sometimes. If it is structurally sound we will fix what is wrong rather than rebuild it, and we will tell you which it is after looking. Rebuilding something that only needed its titles and speed fixed is an expensive way to end up in the same place.
Who owns it?
You do. The domain stays in your name, the code is yours, and you can take it elsewhere. We would rather you stayed because the work is good.
Will it rank?
A new site is not a ranking. What we can do is make sure nothing on the site is preventing Google indexing it, that the pages target things people actually search for, and that they are worth reading when found. Ranking then depends on competition and time, and anybody promising you a position is guessing.
Related
- Web Applications — Software built for one job, in your business, done your way. One took a manufacturer from twenty minutes a quote to two.
- Process Automation — The little things that only take a minute, until you add up the year. We take them off your desk and keep them off it.
Fifteen minutes, no obligation. We will tell you straight whether this is the right fix for what you have described.
Time to talk yet?