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Website Development

Modern Websites & Web Applications

Sites and web tools that are still fast and still editable a year later \u2014 a data model somebody thought about properly, typed code above it, and an interface that does not come apart on a phone.

Capabilities

From Five Pages to a Platform

A small company site and a platform with its own API are the same job at different scales. Both begin with the data and work outwards from it.

  • Business & Corporate Websites

    For most companies this is the first thing anyone sees: who you are, what you sell, how to reach you. Correct markup, menus that work without a mouse, and a structure your own staff can change without booking developer time to fix a sentence.

  • Custom Web Applications

    Browser tools built for one job. Records, forms, permissions and reports modelled on how the work really runs, exceptions included — and the exceptions always turn up, usually about three weeks in.

  • SaaS Frontends

    The customer-facing half of a subscription product: sign-up, onboarding, plan and account management, and views cut down to what each role may see. Built as a typed component library, so the tenth screen costs a fraction of the first.

  • Admin Panels & Dashboards

    What your team opens first thing and keeps open all day. Search that actually finds things, filters that survive a refresh, bulk actions, a real audit trail, and charts that answer a question rather than decorate the page.

  • API-Driven Platforms

    Where the website is one caller among several. Versioned REST endpoints, payloads validated at the boundary, failures predictable enough to write code against, and documentation an outside developer can follow without getting in touch.

  • E-commerce Solutions

    Catalogue, cart, checkout and the order handling behind them, with payment and shipping connected through their own interfaces. Stock, price and tax rules live in one place only — keeping two copies is how a shop quietly starts selling at the wrong price.

  • Backend Development

    Application servers, business rules, authentication and the jobs that run overnight. Schemas get indexes and a migration route in the first week, so growing from a thousand records to a million is a plan rather than an emergency.

  • Maintenance & Support

    Everything after launch: dependency updates, corrections, small additions, and somebody paying attention when production misbehaves. The same version control and review as during the build — maintenance is not a licence to edit files on a live server.

Engineering standards

What Decides Year Two

Launch is the easy day. Four decisions settle whether the result is still quick, still safe and still worth touching twelve months on \u2014 so they get made deliberately rather than by default.

Responsive Development

We design from the narrow end outwards. A phone receives a layout intended for a phone, not a desktop grid folded until it fits. The same set of widths is re-checked on every build, not glanced at once before launch.

  • Verified at 320, 375, 430, 768, 1024, 1280 and 1440 pixels and above
  • Fluid type and spacing scales instead of fixed jumps between breakpoints
  • Touch targets sized for fingers rather than cursors
  • Wide tables and rails scroll inside themselves, never sideways off the page

Performance

Speed is a budget we work within rather than a job for later. We track what the browser genuinely downloads and how long a visitor genuinely waits, and hold both steady as features accumulate, which is exactly when sites usually slow down.

  • Payload kept small: code splitting, modern image formats, fonts loaded deliberately
  • Rendering strategy chosen per page, from static output to server rendering
  • Explicit caching rules at the edge and in the browser
  • Core Web Vitals measured during development and treated as defects when they regress

Security-Conscious Architecture

Validated input, sessions handled correctly, access restricted to what a role requires, dependencies kept current, HTTPS and sensible headers. None of it is unusual. The difference is doing it everywhere by default instead of wherever it occurred to someone.

  • Input validated on the server at every boundary, never in the browser alone
  • Authentication and session handling built on established libraries and patterns
  • Least-privilege access to databases, storage and third-party services
  • Dependencies tracked and updated, with secrets kept out of the repository
  • HTTPS throughout, with security headers configured at the edge

Maintainable Code

Most of a product's life is spent being edited by somebody who did not write it. We build for that person, whoever employs them, so a change takes an afternoon and its consequences are visible.

  • TypeScript throughout, so an interface change surfaces at compile time
  • Screens composed from shared components rather than restyled page by page
  • Git from the first commit, with reviewed changes and a readable history
  • Setup, environment and deployment documented, with a handover that leaves you able to run it

Stack

What Web Work Uses

Chosen against the requirement, the shape of the data, and whoever will be maintaining it when we are no longer involved.

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript

Backend & data

  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Firebase

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud

Method

Requirement to Live

Four stages whether it is a brochure site or a platform with an admin panel behind it, each closing with something you can open and judge yourself.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Time with the people who do the task now, writing down what actually happens rather than what the org chart says happens. The gap between those two is where most of the surprises live.

  2. 02

    Write It Down

    Screens, data and structure settled on paper, then cut into milestones small enough that whether one is finished is a matter of fact rather than opinion.

  3. 03

    Build

    Delivered in pieces you can look at, tested as they go — the ordinary path first, then the awkward inputs, a weak connection and a phone that is several years old.

  4. 04

    Hand Over

    Published, with the repository, the credentials and the notes that explain the decisions. We stay reachable for corrections, releases and whatever the next thing turns out to be.

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Need Something Built for the Web?

What it must do, who will be using it, what it has to connect to. Expect questions back before you get a plan.