Web Development
Websites and web applications built for speed, accessibility and maintainability — custom builds, e-commerce, CMS work and API integration, without the plugin sprawl.
Web systems built to be maintained
We build web systems that hold up in use: fast, accessible, maintainable, and integrated with the systems behind them. That means custom applications and portals as often as it means marketing sites — transactional systems, customer and partner portals, internal tools, and the APIs that connect them.
Technology choices follow from operating requirements rather than fashion: expected lifespan, integration constraints, security obligations, traffic profile, and whether your team can maintain the result after handover.
How we choose technology
We select architectures and frameworks based on what the system has to do and who has to keep it running — not on what is newest. In practice that means proven, well-supported tooling with a large maintenance pool, a documented upgrade path, and no dependency that only one person understands.
Where a system is long-lived, we favour boring, stable foundations and keep the interesting complexity confined to the parts that genuinely differentiate your business.
Technical trade-offs we make explicit
Every web project involves decisions with consequences, and we would rather state them than bury them:
- Rendering strategy — server-rendered, static or client-side, chosen against SEO needs, interactivity and editorial workflow.
- Caching — what can be cached, for how long, and how it is invalidated when content changes.
- Third-party scripts — every analytics and marketing tag costs render time; we audit them rather than accept them by default.
- Editor experience — how much your team can change without a developer, and what that flexibility costs in complexity.
Where to start
If you have an existing site, the useful first step is usually an audit that separates quick wins from structural work — most slow sites are slow because of unoptimised images, plugin sprawl and missing caching, not architecture. If you are building something new, start with what the system has to do and who will operate it.
Related: application modernization where an existing platform needs improving rather than replacing, and cyber security where the application handles sensitive data.
What we build
- Marketing and corporate sites that your team can actually edit — layouts composed from components, not a developer ticket for every change.
- Web applications — portals, dashboards, booking and configuration tools, with authentication and authorisation designed rather than bolted on.
- E-commerce — catalogue, checkout, payment and fulfilment integration, built around your actual order process.
- Integrations — connecting the site to the systems behind it through documented APIs rather than nightly CSV exports.
What “high performance” means here
Concretely, not as an adjective: images served in modern formats at the size actually displayed; full-page caching in front of the origin; scripts audited so a single marketing tag cannot block rendering; and Core Web Vitals measured on real pages rather than a synthetic homepage score.
Most slow sites are not slow because of their architecture. They are slow because of unoptimised images, plugin sprawl and no caching — all fixable without a rebuild. We will tell you which problem you have before quoting for the expensive one.
Common questions
Should we go headless?
Usually only if the same content must reach more than one channel, or you have a standing front-end team. Otherwise a well-optimised traditional build gives you most of the performance with far less complexity and much better editor experience.
Can you work with our existing site?
Yes. An audit first, then a prioritised list separating quick wins from structural work.
Do you handle hosting?
We will configure and tune it, in accounts you own. We would rather you controlled the account.
Is accessibility included?
Semantic markup, keyboard operability and contrast are part of how we build. Formal conformance to a specific WCAG level is a defined piece of work — tell us if you need it and we will scope it.