Five stages. You approve the work at each one, and nothing is built on top of something you haven't seen. Here is what happens, and what we do differently.
Your web address · where the site lives
We work out what your web address should be and where the site will be hosted. If you already have either, we use them. If not, we set them up — with you, or for you, whichever you'd rather.
What's different: your web address and your site are yours to take. The steps to move them somewhere else are written into the manual we hand you, whether we hold the account on your behalf or you hold it yourself.
What you need · what it will look like
We ask you fourteen questions about your business, then design something real from your answers. You review the design with your own answers on the screen beside it.
What's different: we don't ask you to sign off a written brief before you've seen anything. Nobody can judge "generate qualified enquiries" in the abstract. You correct the brief against the design, and we agree both together.
Words and pictures · the site itself
We draft the words for your approval and build the pages by hand. Any photography is properly licensed, and we record where each image came from.
What's different: it isn't a theme with your logo dropped in. That's why it won't look like the other sites in your trade — and why it loads quickly, because there is no page builder to load first.
Testing · security
The site is checked against published standards for accessibility and speed, every link and form is tested, and the security settings are verified on the live server.
What's different: you get the results, pass or fail, including anything we had to fix. We send a real message through your contact form and confirm it arrived — because a form that quietly discards enquiries looks exactly like one that works.
Four manuals · the code · the build log
You get a manual on how the site is built, one on how to use it, one on how to run it, and one setting out what the testing found — including what was not tested, and why. You also get the code and the complete dated record of the build.
What's different — and this is the one that matters: you can take all of it and go. To another developer, to another host, whenever you like. That is not something a website builder can offer you, because their business depends on you staying.
Sometimes what a business actually needs is a small application — something that calculates, tracks or assesses, not just describes. We build those too, on the same process, priced separately.
We run several of our own: an interactive explorer covering four project-management methods, a maturity self-assessment, and a delivery management tool. They are ours rather than client work, but they are live, and you are welcome to go and use them.
The prices are published in full, including what the first year actually costs. Have a look before you talk to us.
