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Fast, modern, clean websites

Q: Will I be able to update the site myself?

Yes. That is the point of using a CMS. Sites are built so that the things you change often — text, images, prices, staff, news — are editable without touching code or breaking the layout, and you get a short handover walkthrough covering the parts you will actually use.

Q: Can you fix or speed up an existing site rather than replace it?

Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Many slow sites are slow because of unoptimised images, too many plugins and a heavy page builder, all of which can be dealt with without a rebuild. A rebuild is worth it when the underlying structure is the problem.

Every other service on this site sends people somewhere. This is the somewhere. A site that loads quickly, reads clearly and is easy to update is what turns the traffic into enquiries.

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What fast, modern and clean actually mean

Those words get used by everyone, so here is what they translate to in practice.

Fast. Pages that load in a second or two on a phone on mobile data, not on your desktop on fibre. Images sized and compressed properly, scripts kept to what earns its place, and Core Web Vitals measured rather than assumed.
Modern. Built for how people actually browse — mobile first, readable type, sensible contrast, keyboard and screen-reader accessible, and secure by default.
Clean. No template bloat, no twenty plugins doing the work of three, no page builder that locks you in and slows every page down. Fewer moving parts means less to go wrong and less to maintain.

The result is a site that is cheaper to run, easier to change, and does not need rescuing in two years.

twenty years of cms work

WordPress, and everything around it

Twenty years managing WordPress and other CMS-based sites means the unglamorous parts are covered: the plugin that conflicts after an update, the theme nobody documented, the media library that has quietly grown to eight gigabytes, the redirect map from a migration three agencies ago.

New builds

Structure, design and build from scratch, with the site architecture decided by what people search for rather than by your internal org chart.

Rebuilds and redesigns

Replacing a site that has aged badly, keeping the pages and rankings that still earn their keep and retiring the ones that do not.

Speed and Core Web Vitals

Diagnosing what is actually slowing a site down — usually images, render-blocking scripts or an overloaded page builder — and fixing the causes rather than installing another caching plugin.

Ongoing CMS care

Updates applied and tested, backups that have been restored at least once, security hardening, broken links and forms checked, and someone to call when something breaks.

Migrations and platform moves

Moving hosts, moving CMS, or moving to a static build. URL mapping and redirects planned before anything goes live, so search rankings survive the change.

Accessibility and standards

Proper heading structure, alt text, colour contrast, labelled forms and keyboard navigation — good practice, better for search, and increasingly expected of any organisation with public funding or public users.

how it is built

Built to be measured

A site handed over here arrives with analytics and conversion tracking already working, structured data in place, a sitemap submitted, and forms that record an event when someone submits them. That is not an upsell — a site you cannot measure is a site nobody can improve. See analytics and measurement for what that involves, and SEO for the search side of a new build.

Discuss your site

questions

Website questions I get asked

Will I be able to update the site myself?

Yes — that is the point of using a CMS. Sites are built so the things you change often (text, images, prices, staff, news) are editable without touching code or breaking the layout, and you get a short handover walkthrough covering the parts you will actually use.

Do you use WordPress or something else?

Whichever suits the job. WordPress is the right answer for most small business sites, and it is the platform with twenty years of experience behind it here. Where a site is small and rarely changes, a static build is faster and cheaper to run. Where there is a shop, how you sell decides the platform.

How long does a website take to build?

A straightforward brochure site is usually a few weeks from agreed structure to launch. The variable is almost never the build — it is how quickly the content arrives. Projects that stall are stalled on copy and photographs, not code.

Can you fix or speed up an existing site rather than replace it?

Often, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Many slow sites are slow because of unoptimised images, too many plugins and a heavy page builder — all fixable without a rebuild. A rebuild is worth it when the underlying structure is the problem.

Do you host sites?

Hosting stays in your name with a provider you control, so you are never locked in. Recommendations are given based on what the site actually needs, and the setup and migration can be handled for you.