Websites & Commerce
Custom Website Development
Custom website design and development for businesses that have outgrown a template — built to fit how you actually work, and to be edited without a developer.
A custom website is worth building when an off-the-shelf theme stops fitting — when the way you sell, book, or explain your work does not match the boxes the template gives you.
We start from your content and what visitors need to do, then design around that. The result is a WordPress site built specifically for you, that your team can edit, and that does not depend on a page-builder plugin to render its own pages.
Problems this solves
If more than one of these sounds familiar, this is probably the right page.
- The current site cannot be changed without paying someone every time
- A bought theme does almost what you need, and fighting it costs more than starting again
- The site is slow because it loads a page builder and twelve plugins to render one page
- Content is trapped in a layout nobody understands any more
- It was never designed for phones, so most visitors get the worst version
Scope
What you get
- A design made for your content, reviewed before anything is built
- A custom WordPress theme — no page-builder lock-in
- Editable content areas, so your team changes text and images without touching code
- Responsive layouts composed for phone, tablet and desktop separately
- Accessible markup: real headings, keyboard navigation, visible focus, sensible contrast
- Speed work as part of the build, not a later add-on
- SEO groundwork: clean URLs, titles, descriptions, structured data, XML sitemap
- Browser and device testing before handover
- A short handover session and written notes on editing the site
Outcome
What changes
- You can update your own website
- Pages load quickly because they only load what they use
- The site works properly on the phones most of your visitors actually use
- Search engines can read and index it
- Nothing breaks when a page-builder plugin updates
Process
How we deliver it
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01
Discuss
We work out what you need and whether this is the right service for it.
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Scope and quote
We write down what will be delivered, and quote for that.
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Build and review
You see the work in progress, not only at the end.
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Hand over and support
You get the finished work, the files, and someone to ask.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Do I need to know WordPress to update the site?
No. Content is edited in the WordPress block editor, which works like a document editor. We show you how at handover and leave written notes.
Will I be locked into working with you?
No. The theme is standard WordPress with documented code. Any competent WordPress developer can pick it up.
Can you work with our existing branding?
Yes. If you have a logo, colours and fonts we design around them. If you do not, we can put a simple identity together as part of the project.
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Need Custom Website Development?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we will scope it honestly.