Web Development & Deployment

Websites and web apps, built to be run

Marketing sites, customer portals and internal tools, designed and built here and then hosted, monitored and updated by the same team that runs the rest of your IT. Every change ships through a pipeline with a preview and a rollback, so a release is a Tuesday afternoon rather than an event.

Core expertise

From a first landing page to the system your business runs on

Sites That Have To Sell

Marketing sites and landing pages that load fast on a phone on mobile data, read clearly to a search engine, and put the enquiry form where people actually look for it.

Portals & Web Applications

Customer portals, booking, quoting and internal tools. The jobs your team currently does in a spreadsheet and three email threads, given a single place to live.

E-commerce & Payments

Storefronts, checkout and payment gateways wired through to your accounting, so orders reconcile themselves instead of being retyped at the end of the month.

Hosting, Domains & DNS

Somewhere reliable for it to live, with certificates, mail records and CDN handled. One team holds the site, the domain and the mailboxes, so nobody points at anybody else.

Pipelines & Environments

Build, preview, test and deploy on every change, with staging that matches production and a rollback we have actually used, not one we assume works.

Ideal for

Businesses whose website is a sales channel or an operating tool rather than a brochure, and anyone currently waiting on a developer who stopped answering email.

Built, then run

The build is the short part. Someone has to own it afterwards.

Most website problems are not design problems. They are an expired certificate, an unpatched plugin, a domain renewal nobody was watching, or a change nobody can undo. We build it and then keep running it, on the same monitoring as the rest of your infrastructure.

  • One team, build and runThe people who wrote it are the people who get the alert.
  • Reversible releasesA preview URL per change, and a rollback that has been rehearsed.
  • Yours, not oursRepository, domains and admin accounts in your name from day one.
STAGED REPLACEMENTLEGACYREPLACEMENTSTAGE 120%STAGE 240%STAGE 360%STAGE 480%STAGE 5100%EACH STAGE INDIVIDUALLY REVERSIBLENO BIG BANG Staged cutover · rollback tested
The build

Four stages, and you can see the work at every one

01

Scope & prototype

We agree what the site or tool has to achieve, in enquiries, hours or orders. You see clickable screens before anyone writes production code.

02

Build in the open

Work goes to a preview URL as it happens, so feedback lands while it is still cheap. No four-week silence followed by a reveal.

03

Ship on a pipeline

Automated build, checks and deploy. Content, DNS and certificates cut over together, with the old site standing by until the new one has earned the traffic.

04

Run & improve

Uptime and performance monitored, dependencies patched, and a standing allowance for the small changes every live site needs.

Specifics

What we commit to on a build

The failure mode of this work is a site nobody can change and nobody can leave. Everything below exists to make sure that is not what you end up with.

Ask about anything on this list
Ownership
Repository, domain and hosting accounts registered to you, handed over whether or not we keep running it
Stack
Chosen for who has to maintain it after us, not for what is interesting this year
Hosting
Australian region by default, with certificates and renewals automated
Performance
Budgeted and measured on a mid-range phone, not on the machine it was built on
Accessibility
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested with a keyboard and a screen reader
Releases
Preview URL per change, production deploy behind approval, rollback tested before go-live
Backups
Nightly and offsite, with a restore rehearsed rather than assumed
Search
Sitemap, canonical URLs and structured data in place at launch, with redirects mapped from the old site
Handover
Documentation and the ability to edit content without calling us
Before you ask

Questions we get about this one

Do we own the site at the end?

Yes, and you own it during as well. The repository, the domain and the hosting account are in your name from the first week. If you decide to move it elsewhere, you take it with you and we help with the handover rather than making it difficult.

Can you take over a site someone else built?

Usually. We start with an audit of the code, the hosting and the domain records, and tell you plainly whether it is worth keeping. Sometimes it is, and the honest answer is a tidy-up rather than a rebuild.

Do we have to be able to edit it ourselves?

You should be able to change words and images without a developer, and that is how we build it. Anything structural is a change request, because a page layout that anyone can rearrange is a page layout that eventually gets rearranged badly.

What does it cost to keep running?

Hosting, domain and certificate costs are passed through at what they cost. On top of that there is a monthly amount for patching, monitoring, backups and a standing allowance for small changes, scoped to the size of the site.

How long does a build take?

A marketing site is usually weeks. A portal or an application depends on how much of the process is already written down. Either way you see working screens early, so the timeline is something you can watch rather than something you are told about at the end.

Pairs with

What this is usually engaged alongside

Practices compose. These are the three that most often sit next to this one, and why.

Need a site that works as hard as your team does?

Tell us what it has to achieve and we will scope the build, the hosting and what it costs to keep running.

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