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Web Engineering

A website that actually earns its keep.

A slow site, or one that looks like a template everyone recognises, quietly undermines you before a single word is read. We hand code fast, sharp sites that match the quality of what you actually do, and nudge the right visitors toward becoming customers.

Book a callSee what's insideUsually 6 to 12 weeks
Sound familiar?

Your site is doing you a quiet disservice.

It takes an age to load, so half your visitors leave before it appears. It looks like the same template three competitors use. Editing anything means fighting a page builder or waiting on someone. And you have no idea which bits are actually winning you work. A good site should be your best salesperson, not a liability you apologise for.

Right now
Loads like treacle Looks like a template Fifteen plugins Breaks on mobile Who is even visiting? Scared to touch it
After we are done

Fast. Yours. Convincing.

Loads in a blink, reads beautifully everywhere, and turns the right people into enquiries.

A great website earns its keep in the first second. It loads before anyone gets impatient, looks like nobody else's, and quietly makes the case for you while you get on with the actual work.

We build the site your work deserves.
What you get out of it

Quick to load. Hard to ignore.

Benchmarks we build to and prove on every project. The lift you see depends on where your current site is starting from.

Under 1.5s
To load the main content, on every build.
95+
Lighthouse performance score we aim for.
30 to 60%
More of the right enquiries after a rebuild.
What's inside

Six things in every site we ship.

We scope it to your goals, but this is the shape of the work: hand built, quick, persuasive, and easy for the right people to find.

Hand coded, every pixel

Written from scratch in real HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No template, no page builder, nothing generic that gives the game away the moment someone lands.

Fast on purpose

Built to show the main content in under a second and a half, with the Lighthouse scores to back it up rather than a vague promise that it feels quick.

Laid out to convince

The order, the words and the buttons are all arranged around the journey your best clients take, so the right visitors keep drifting toward getting in touch.

Gorgeous on a phone

Designed for the small screen first and tuned to read beautifully at every size, because that is where most of your visitors are actually looking.

You can see what works

Analytics and conversion tracking wired in from day one, so you finally know which pages and words are earning you enquiries instead of guessing.

Findable by the right people

On page SEO and structured data built in, so search engines understand the site and the people looking for what you do can actually find it.

The stack

Hand coded, tuned to fly.

We ship only what the page needs, built on current standards. No content management bloat, no plugin stack to keep patching, nothing quietly dragging your load time down.

Frontend
HTML5CSS3TypeScriptTailwind
Motion
GSAPFramer MotionCSS animations
Backend
PHP 8.5Node.jsHeadless CMS
SEO & analytics
Schema.orgGA4Core Web Vitals
Written by us, end to end. No page builders, no plugin bloat, and nothing left to slow the speed down.
How it goes

Four steps, and never a mystery.

The build is usually six to twelve weeks, in weekly milestones you can watch happen in your portal.

30 minutes

A proper chat

Half an hour on your goals, your audience and whether there is a genuine fit, straight with the person who would build it.

Fixed price

The plan, in writing

Deliverables, timeline and a fixed price, with the numbers we are chasing agreed up front so we both know what a win looks like.

6 to 12 weeks

We build, you watch

We design and build to the milestones, visible in your portal, with a written note every week so you are never wondering where it is at.

Yours to keep

Handover, for real

The full codebase, the docs and the keys. Support after launch, and we are around whenever you want us back.

Before you ask

Fair questions, straight answers.

Why not just use WordPress or a website builder?

Custom code is faster, more secure and entirely yours. A builder hands you a template people recognise and a stack of plugins to babysit. We hand you a site nobody else has and nothing to patch every week.

How do you make it load so fast?

We hand code it, send only what the page actually needs, and engineer for the load and Lighthouse scores from the very start, rather than bolting speed on at the end and hoping.

How do we know it is actually working?

We agree the numbers that matter at the proposal stage, wire in tracking from day one, and sit down together to look at the results once it is live.

Will it look right on a phone?

It is designed for the phone first and tested across every screen size. That is where most of your visitors are, so it is where we start, not where we compromise.

Goes nicely with

A site is the front door.

These are the disciplines that get the right people to it, and give them somewhere to go once they are inside.

Ready for a site that pulls its weight?

Tell us what your current site is not doing for you. We will give you a straight answer on what a rebuild would change, and a rough idea of what it would take.