Service 02 — Web development

Frontend, backend, cloud and brand.
One team. Weeks, not quarters.

We take a website or web product from logo and wireframe through to a React front end, a Node API, a database and a live AWS deployment — without four vendors and three handover gaps. Most builds ship in half the time a traditional agency quotes, because the work never leaves one pod.

React · TypeScript · Next.js Node · MongoDB · RDS AWS deployment Logo, graphic & UI/UX
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What we build

Six builds, one standard of craft.

Different jobs, same non-negotiables: fast, accessible, secure, and editable by the people who own the content.

W/01

Corporate & marketing sites

Built on Next.js so pages render on the server and load in under two seconds on a mid-range phone. Clear service architecture, multi-market structure, and a content model your marketing team edits without raising a ticket.

Next.jsHeadless CMSMulti-market
W/02

WordPress development

Custom themes and plugins built properly — no bloated page builder stacked with forty plugins. Where speed matters we run WordPress headless: your editors keep the admin they know, the front end is React and loads several times faster.

Custom themesHeadless modeWooCommerce
W/03

E-commerce

React and Next.js storefronts with catalogue, cart, checkout, coupons and order management. Payment gateways, shipping and tax wired in, plus an admin your team runs. Built to hold up on sale days, not just on a Tuesday.

React storefrontPaymentsOrder admin
W/04

Customer portals & dashboards

Login-protected areas where customers see statements, raise requests, upload documents and track status. Built against your core system's API, so what the portal shows is what your ledger says — not a nightly copy.

Live dataRole-based accessSecure login
W/05

Brand, graphic & UI/UX design

Logo and identity, brand guidelines, marketing collateral, and the interface design itself. Wireframes to a clickable prototype you approve before a line of code is written — which is where most rework gets avoided.

Logo & identityUI/UXPrototype first
W/06

Replatforming & rescues

Moving off a CMS that has become a liability, or finishing a build someone else stalled on. Content audited and migrated, redirects mapped so rankings survive, and a cutover that does not drop traffic on the day.

Redirect mapSEO retainedRescue audit
Full stack, one team

Everything from the pixel to the database.

No "that's the backend vendor's problem". The same pod owns the interface, the API, the data and the deployment.

Hosting sits in your own AWS or Vercel account, in the region your data policy requires. We set it up, hand over the keys, and you pay the provider directly — never a marked-up bill through us.
Delivery speed

Why our timelines look short.

Clients ask how a five-week corporate site is possible when they have been quoted four months elsewhere. It is not shortcuts and it is not junior staff. It is four specific decisions about how the work is organised.

Most agency timelines are made of waiting, not working.

No handover between vendors

Design, frontend, backend and deployment sit in one pod. A traditional build loses weeks to a design agency finishing, a dev shop starting, then a hosting partner being briefed. When the designer and the React engineer share a stand-up, that dead time disappears.

Typically 30–40% of a timeline

A component library we already own

Navigation, forms, tables, authentication, payment integration, admin scaffolding — these have been built, tested and hardened across hundreds of projects. We are not writing a date picker from scratch for you. Your project gets the parts that are actually specific to you.

Licensed to you, royalty-free

Prototype approved before code

You sign off on a clickable prototype covering every screen and state. Changing a layout there takes an hour; changing it after the build takes a week and a regression test. Most projects that run late are not slow — they are being rebuilt because the design was approved as static images.

Rework avoided, not absorbed

Deployment set up in week one

Your AWS or Vercel environment, CI/CD pipeline and staging URL exist before the first feature is built. You review real work on a real URL every week instead of screenshots — and launch day is just another deployment rather than an event with a war room.

No launch-week surprises
Timelines

What it costs you in weeks.

Ranges below assume content is ready. Where it is not, our copy and design team can produce it — that runs in parallel rather than adding to the end.

BuildStackTimeline
Marketing site Next.js static, Tailwind, deployed to CDN. No framework overhead where none is needed. 3–5 weeks
Corporate site with CMS Next.js with headless WordPress, Sanity or Strapi. Editable block library included. 5–9 weeks
WordPress custom theme Bespoke theme, custom post types, no page-builder bloat. WooCommerce where selling. 4–7 weeks
E-commerce storefront React or Next.js front end, Node API, MongoDB or PostgreSQL, gateway and shipping integrated. 8–14 weeks
Customer portal React with TypeScript against your API, SSO and role-based access, hosted on AWS. 8–14 weeks
Brand & identity Logo, palette, typography, guidelines and collateral. Runs alongside the build. 2–4 weeks

Under 2s load

Measured on a mid-range Android over 4G, not a laptop on fibre. Core Web Vitals in the green before we call it done.

Technical SEO

Server-rendered content, clean URLs, structured data, sitemaps and hreflang across markets. Built in, not bolted on.

WCAG 2.2 AA

Keyboard navigation, visible focus, passing contrast. Increasingly a procurement requirement in the US, UK and Australia.

Editable without us

Your team builds pages from approved blocks, with preview and rollback. Training included at handover.

Before you call

Common questions.

Ask something else

Fair question, and the honest test is the output rather than our word for it. Every build ships with the same measured standards — Core Web Vitals, accessibility audit, security review and automated tests — and we publish those results to you before launch. Ask us for a live site we built in five weeks and run it through PageSpeed yourself. That is a more useful answer than anything we could write here.

If the site is mostly content and your team publishes weekly, WordPress is often the right call and cheaper to run. If you need application behaviour, live data or serious speed, React and Next.js. The middle path suits most enterprises: headless WordPress for editing, React for the front end. We will recommend one on the first call and explain the trade-off rather than defaulting to whichever is more billable.

Yes. EC2 or serverless compute, RDS or MongoDB Atlas for data, S3 and CloudFront for assets, with infrastructure defined as code so the environment can be rebuilt rather than remembered. It all lives in your AWS account. You can keep us on a monthly retainer for monitoring and patching, or take it in-house with the runbooks — no lock-in either way.

Yes — logo, palette, typography, brand guidelines and collateral, plus the UI/UX design for the site itself. It runs in parallel with the technical setup rather than adding weeks at the front. If you already have a brand system or an agency you like, we build to their designs; we just need component states, not only desktop mockups.

Not if the redirects are mapped properly, which is the single most common cause of traffic loss at relaunch. We audit every indexed URL, map it to its new destination, and monitor for six weeks after go-live. Rankings typically dip for a week or two and recover — we will show you the curve from past launches.

Next step

Send us your
current site.

We will run a performance, accessibility and technical SEO audit and walk you through what we find — plus a fixed quote and a delivery date. Free, and useful whether or not you work with us.

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