Website development process showing discovery, sitemap, user experience design, accessible build, quality testing and launch

Website Design & Development ServicesA website is not a brochure.
It is your best salesperson.

Most business sites are built to look finished, not to perform. Our website design and development services build sites that load fast on a mid-range phone, get crawled properly, and are structured so the next page you add ranks without a rebuild.

Server-renderedCore Web VitalsSEO-ready structureCMS you can actually use
Engagement at a glance
Typical timeline6–12 weeks
Build approachServer-rendered, component-based
HandoverFull source, no lock-in
Performance targetCore Web Vitals passing on mobile
IncludedRedirect map, schema, analytics
After launch30 days of fixes at no charge
Next.js & WordPressHeadless or classicWCAG AASchema markupAnalytics wiredMigration & redirects
<1.8sMobile LCP target
<200msINP target
AAWCAG conformance
100%Old URLs redirected
18Key templates
At a glance

Website Design & Development Services at a glance

Our website development services build fast, accessible, search-ready sites. As a website development company, we deliver custom website development and business website design on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or headless stacks — with SEO, Core Web Vitals and conversion tracking built in.

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What’s included
  • UX & UI design
  • Custom website development
  • WordPress, Shopify & Webflow
  • Core Web Vitals
  • SEO-ready build
  • Conversion tracking
What’s included

What a website build includes

Design, development and the technical SEO that protects your rankings, delivered as one project.

  • UX & information architecture

    Page structure and navigation built around how customers actually buy.

  • UI design & design system

    Reusable components so new pages stay fast and on-brand.

  • Website development

    WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or headless — chosen for your team.

  • Technical SEO & schema

    Clean markup, internal linking and structured data from launch.

  • Speed & Core Web Vitals

    Performance budgets enforced during the build, not bolted on after.

  • Migration & analytics

    One-to-one redirects, analytics and conversion tracking wired in.

Standards

The things we will not ship without

These are not upsells. A site that fails on any of them is not finished, and we would rather argue about it during the build than after launch.

  • PASS

    Core Web Vitals passing on mobile

    Measured on field data from real devices, not a lab score on a fast laptop. Performance budgets are enforced during the build, because retrofitting speed afterwards is far harder than protecting it.

  • PASS

    Content readable without JavaScript

    Server-rendered HTML so crawlers, AI answer engines and assistive technology all receive the actual content rather than an empty shell that needs scripting to fill.

  • PASS

    One H1, real heading hierarchy

    Headings used for structure rather than for font size. It is the cheapest ranking factor available and one of the most commonly broken.

  • PASS

    Every old URL redirected

    A one-to-one redirect map applied at launch. Without it a redesign discards accumulated authority, which is the single most damaging launch mistake we see.

  • PASS

    Accessible to WCAG AA

    Contrast, focus states, labels, keyboard paths and alt text. It widens your audience, reduces legal exposure, and correlates closely with clean semantic markup.

  • PASS

    You own everything

    Source code, domain, hosting and analytics in your accounts. No proprietary page builder that holds the site hostage if you ever change agency.

What is changing

Four shifts worth building for

Building to today's baseline means launching already behind. These are the changes we design around now.

AI answer engines read your HTML

Assistants and AI summaries extract from server-rendered markup. Sites that render content only in the browser get skipped entirely, which is becoming a meaningful traffic risk.

INP replaced FID

Interaction to Next Paint measures every interaction, not just the first. Heavy client-side JavaScript that once passed now fails, and it is the vital most sites currently struggle with.

Accessibility is becoming enforceable

The European Accessibility Act and equivalent rules elsewhere are turning WCAG conformance from good practice into a compliance requirement for many businesses.

Content editing moved to the client

The value of a build is now partly in how safely a non-technical person can publish. Sites requiring a developer for every change quietly stop being updated.

Targets

The targets we set for a website build

Performance targets written into the proposal, measured on field data after launch rather than claimed at handover.

  • <1.8sMobile LCPField data, 75th percentile
  • <200msINPReal interactions
  • 100%Old URLs redirectedOne-to-one map
  • AAWCAG conformanceAudited before launch

These are planning targets rather than a record of past client averages; we agree a realistic range against your own baseline before an engagement starts. Performance depends partly on decisions you own — a site loaded with third-party tracking scripts after launch will not hold these numbers, and we will tell you when a request will cost you speed.

How it runs

How a website project runs

Most builds take six to twelve weeks, depending on page count and integrations.

Week 1Week 4Week 8Week 12
  1. Discovery & crawl

    We crawl the current site, map every URL and agree the templates.

  2. Design

    Wireframes, then UI designed on your real content.

  3. Build

    Server-rendered pages with performance budgets enforced.

  4. Launch & monitor

    Redirects, Search Console checks and 30 days of fixes.

Questions

Website Development FAQs: what clients ask before commissioning a build

Direct answers on cost, platform, timelines and what happens to your rankings.

Sachkhand teamUsually replies within one business day
Will a redesign hurt our search rankings?

It can, badly, and it is the most common way businesses lose organic traffic. The risk comes almost entirely from changing URLs without one-to-one redirects, dropping heading structure, or removing content that was ranking. We crawl the existing site first, map every URL, and treat the pages currently earning traffic as fixed requirements rather than things to redesign freely.

WordPress or a custom build?

It depends on who maintains it. WordPress is sensible when your team publishes frequently and needs a familiar editor; it becomes a liability when it accumulates plugins nobody audits. A modern framework build is faster and more secure but needs a developer for structural change. We recommend based on your team, not on what we prefer to build.

How much does a website cost?

It scales with page count, integrations and how much content needs writing or migrating. A focused site for a small business sits far below a multi-location or catalogue build. What moves the number most is not visual design but integration complexity, so we scope those first and give a fixed price rather than an hourly estimate.

How long does it take?

Typically six to twelve weeks. The stage that slips is almost always content — not design or development. Projects that finish on time are the ones where content is being written in parallel from week one rather than gathered at the end.

Do we own the site afterwards?

Yes, completely. Source code, domain, hosting and analytics all sit in your accounts, and handover includes documentation plus a recorded walkthrough. We do not build on proprietary systems that make leaving difficult, because a client who stays only because leaving is hard is not a client relationship worth having.

Can you work with our existing designer or brand?

Yes, and often that works well. If you have a brand system we build to it. If you have a designer producing page comps we will ask for a component system instead, since page pictures do not tell a developer what happens at other screen sizes or with longer content.

What happens after launch?

Thirty days of fixes are included, covering anything that does not work as specified. Beyond that we offer ongoing support, but it is optional — you own the code and can take it anywhere. We also verify analytics and Search Console are reporting correctly, since a site nobody measures cannot be improved.

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Send us your current site. We will crawl it, show you what is holding it back technically, and outline what a rebuild would need to protect and improve.

Free technical crawl of your current site
URL and redirect risk assessment
Core Web Vitals field-data review
Fixed-price build proposal
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