Web design and development in the United Kingdom

WordPress suits a team that publishes regularly and wants to edit most of the site itself. Its plugins give you a wide choice of features, although the site needs regular updates to stay secure. Before choosing it, think about who will maintain those updates as well as who will add pages and news.

A custom-coded site in Next.js suits a business that wants fast pages, tight security and a design without template limits. The trade-off is that you need a developer to make structural changes. That distinction is useful when planning who will look after the site once it has launched.

A headless setup combines a custom front end with a separate content editor. It suits a site that needs speed and frequent editing, but adds moving parts to host and maintain. We recommend WordPress or custom Next.js after learning how your team works and what it needs to update.

If your business is a limited company, its website must show its registered number, registered office address, place of registration and limited company status. We set up a place for those details on the site, ready for you to supply and check them.

Website service providers must make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We include those adjustments in the page setup and review. For cookies used solely for statistics or appearance preferences, the rules allow use without consent when visitors get clear information and an easy way to object; we set up that information and objection route for those uses.

Bring what you have and identify who holds anything still missing.

• Your services or products, ranked by their importance to the business.
• Logo files in SVG, AI or EPS, plus your brand colours and fonts.
• A few sites you like and dislike, with a reason for each choice.
• Account details for your domain, hosting, email, analytics and Search Console, or the names of the people who hold them.
• Real photos of your team, premises and completed work; book a photo shoot ahead if you need one.
• Case studies, permitted client logos, testimonials, certifications and memberships collected in one folder.

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  Designing around placeholder copy

  Put real headings and paragraphs into the layouts early. Their length affects a page that may otherwise look finished in a mock-up.

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  Reviewing only on a large screen

  Check every page on a phone first, including the order of the content and how it reads.

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  Leaving search checks until after launch

  Check page titles and the sitemap, and make sure an indexing block from development has been removed.

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  Letting someone else register your accounts

  Hold the domain and hosting accounts in your business name and grant access to the people working on the site.