CMS
WordPress
A good fit when
- Content changes often and several people edit it
- You need flexible page building within a design system
- You want WooCommerce alongside the content
Built as a custom theme, no page-builder bloat.
Websites built to do a job.
From focused marketing sites to complex CMS and commerce builds, designed around what the website needs to achieve, and engineered to be fast, accessible and easy for your team to run.
01What we build
Every kind of website, one standard.
The format changes with the brief. The standard doesn’t: clear structure, careful design and code that stays fast and maintainable.
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Marketing websites
Company and product sites that explain what you do, build trust and turn visitors into enquiries.
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Custom websites
Bespoke builds for brands that need a distinctive experience, advanced interactions or unusual content.
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CMS-driven sites
Content-heavy websites with structured content models and an editing experience your team will actually use.
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E-commerce
Online stores with considered product pages, smooth checkouts and the integrations that keep orders moving.
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Headless builds
A modern frontend on top of a CMS or commerce backend, for speed, flexibility and multi-channel content.
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Landing pages & campaigns
Focused pages for launches and campaigns, built quickly on a reusable system and wired into your analytics.
02Approach
How a website comes together.
Six stages, from the first question about what the site is for to the improvements that follow launch.
Our wider process-
Define
Goals, audiences, content and how success will be measured, agreed before a single page is designed.
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Structure
Sitemap, content model and wireframes that give every page a purpose and a place.
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Design
Visual design, a component library and responsive layouts for every breakpoint.
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Build
Development, CMS configuration, integrations and testing across browsers and devices.
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Launch
Content migration, redirects, analytics and a planned go-live with nothing left to chance.
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Support
Maintenance, monitoring and continuous improvements once real visitors start using the site.
03What’s included
Built in, not bolted on.
The foundations every website we deliver starts with, whatever the platform or budget.
Website specificationStandard on every build
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Responsive layouts
Designed and tested for phones, tablets and large screens, not just scaled down.
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Accessibility
Semantic markup, keyboard support, readable contrast and accessible forms, guided by WCAG.
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Performance
Optimised images, lean code and caching, with Core Web Vitals checked before launch.
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SEO foundations
Clean URLs, metadata, structured data, sitemaps and redirects so search engines can do their job.
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Analytics & tracking
Analytics and conversion events set up around the goals agreed in the first stage.
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CMS training
A walkthrough and written guide so your team can update content with confidence.
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Hosting option
Managed hosting with backups and monitoring, or deployment to your own infrastructure.
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Security basics
HTTPS, sensible permissions, spam protection and an update plan from day one.
04Platforms
The right platform for the site.
We work across several platforms, so the recommendation follows the website, its content, its team and its future, rather than our preferences.
Commerce
Shopify
A good fit when
- Selling products is the website’s main job
- You want reliable, hosted checkout and payments
- Your team manages catalogue, orders and fulfilment
Custom themes and apps, not an off-the-shelf template.
Visual CMS
Webflow
A good fit when
- A marketing team wants hands-on visual control
- The site is design-led with modest integrations
- Speed to launch matters more than deep custom logic
Structured with components so edits stay on-brand.
Custom
Custom build
A good fit when
- Performance and interaction are central to the brand
- The site behaves more like an application
- Content comes from several systems via APIs
Typically Next.js with a headless CMS behind it.
Every other platform too
Those four cover most projects. We build on the rest as well, and we move sites between them.
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More platforms
Squarespace, Wix, Framer, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Craft and Ghost, plus WooCommerce for stores running on WordPress.
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Headless setups
Sanity, Strapi or Contentful feeding a custom frontend, for content that serves more than one channel.
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Migration
Moving content, media, URLs and redirects onto a new platform while search visibility holds.
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Plugins and extensions
Custom plugins, WooCommerce extensions and Shopify apps when a site needs behaviour the platform does not offer.
05Related work
Website work.
Concept projects are shown while our published case studies are being prepared.
06FAQ
Website questions.
The questions we hear most often at the start of a website project.
It depends on what the site needs to do and who will run it. We compare the options in the first stage, content, integrations, editing needs and budget, and recommend one with the reasons written down.
Yes. Every CMS build includes a structured editing experience, training and a written guide. You can manage pages, posts and products without touching code, and without breaking the design.
We plan migration as part of the project: mapping old content to the new structure, moving what’s worth keeping and setting up redirects so existing links and search rankings carry over.
We structure content and write interface copy as part of the design. For full page copy, we can work with your team or a copywriter, and we’ll make sure the design leaves room for the real words.
We monitor the site closely after go-live and fix anything that surfaces. From there, most clients move onto a maintenance or improvement retainer so updates, backups and new work are handled continuously.
Planning a new website?
Share what the site needs to achieve and any deadlines. We’ll come back with questions, a recommended platform and the next steps.
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