The Development Lab
Websites built to perform, not just to exist.
A website is infrastructure. We design and build sites that load fast, rank, convert, and stay editable by your team long after launch — with the analytics to prove what is working.
Who this is for
- Businesses whose current site is slow, dated, or unmanageable
- Companies launching a new product or brand
- E-commerce operators needing a store that converts
- Teams tired of paying an agency to change a paragraph
Problems we solve here
- The site looks fine but generates almost no enquiries
- Nobody can edit content without a developer
- Page speed and Core Web Vitals are hurting rankings
- The site breaks on mobile, or was never designed for it
Core offering
What we do here, in short.
- Marketing Website Design and BuildA complete public website: strategy, design, build, content structure, SEO, and analytics.Six to fourteen weeks depending on page count and content readiness.
- Landing Page and Campaign PagesSingle-purpose pages built around one offer and one action.One to three weeks.
- E-commerce Store DevelopmentStorefronts built around catalogue, checkout, fulfilment, and repeat purchase.Eight to twenty weeks depending on catalogue and integrations.
- Website Redesign and MigrationRebuild an existing site without losing the traffic and history you already have.Six to sixteen weeks.
- Website Performance and Core Web VitalsDiagnose and fix what is making your site slow, then prove the improvement.Two to four weeks.
How this work runs
The path from brief to handoff.
- 01
Discovery — goals, audience, current analytics, and content audit
- 02
Architecture — sitemap, page intents, and conversion paths
- 03
Design — key templates designed and approved before build
- 04
Build — responsive, accessible, SEO-ready implementation
- 05
Launch — QA, redirects, analytics, and a documented handover
Questions
Answered before you have to ask.
- Can our team edit the site after launch?
- Yes. Content lives in a structured content system with an editing interface, and we include written instructions plus a walkthrough.
- Do you handle hosting and domains?
- We configure and document them, and can manage them ongoing. Third-party hosting, domain, and service costs are billed at cost and disclosed up front.
- What happens to our existing SEO?
- We map every existing URL, implement redirects, and preserve metadata. Migrations without a redirect plan are how sites lose traffic.
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