WEB DEVELOPMENT

Your New Business Needs Customers Next Week. Not Next Quarter.

If you're a founder with a registered LLC and zero organic traffic, you're invisible to the buyers already searching for what you sell.

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WEB DEVELOPMENT AT A GLANCE
  • Fixed fee
  • Senior-led
  • 95+LIGHTHOUSE AVG
  • 12+ yrsSENIOR-LED
  • Fixed feeNO SCOPE CREEP
  • 200+PROJECTS SHIPPED
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Overview — 01

We build Next.js websites for newly registered businesses that need search visibility from the first week the domain goes live. Every site ships with schema markup, sub-2-second load times, and a crawlable architecture so Google indexes your pages before your first invoice clears. No placeholder content, no theme-shop shortcuts — production-ready code on launch day.

The goal is a Lighthouse 90-plus score and at least one indexed page within 48 hours of DNS propagation.

New Business Website Development

New business website development is the practice of designing and engineering a public-facing site for a company that has no existing web presence, optimizing for search indexability and Core Web Vitals from the initial commit rather than retrofitting them later. The stack is Next.js with static or incremental rendering, deployed to an edge CDN, with structured data and semantic HTML baked into every template.

The gap — 02

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your LLC is registered and your product is ready, but typing your business name into Google returns nothing — competitors with worse offerings are taking every inbound query you should own.
Risk: Each week without an indexed site is a week of compounding ranking delay; Google's trust signals accumulate over time, so a late start extends the gap between launch and first organic lead by months.
Builders like Squarespace or Wix ship bloated JavaScript bundles and shallow crawl structures that fail Core Web Vitals audits, which suppresses your rankings before you have any content authority to fall back on.
Risk: A poor Core Web Vitals score is a documented ranking signal; a new domain that also carries a slow LCP starts in a deficit that content alone cannot overcome without a full technical rebuild.
Most freelancers hand over a static design with no schema markup, no sitemap submission, and no structured heading hierarchy, leaving the SEO foundation work to a second contractor weeks later.
Risk: Fragmenting development and SEO across two vendors produces implementation gaps — missing canonical tags, duplicate meta descriptions, uncompressed images — that take 60-plus days to surface and correct in search console data.

Safeguards — 03

How we build this right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Core Web Vitals Pass at Launch

Every delivery is tested against LCP, CLS, and INP thresholds in both lab and field conditions before the DNS cutover. We do not hand over a site that requires post-launch performance remediation.

Structured Data on Every Page Type

Organization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, and page-specific schema are implemented inline at build time, validated against Google's Rich Results Test, and reviewed against the current schema.org specification.

Secure Deployment Baseline

Sites ship with HTTPS enforced at the CDN edge, strict Content Security Policy headers, no mixed-content warnings, and dependency audits run against the npm advisory database before every production build.

Scope — 04

What we build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Next.js Static and ISR Architecture

Pages are pre-rendered at build time or via incremental static regeneration so every URL delivers a fully formed HTML document to Googlebot on the first crawl, with no client-side rendering delay to wait out.

Semantic HTML and Heading Hierarchy

Document outlines follow a strict H1-through-H3 structure mapped to target keyword clusters, giving crawlers a clear topical signal on every page without keyword stuffing or manufactured anchor text.

Image Pipeline with Next/Image and CDN Delivery

All images are converted to WebP or AVIF at build time, sized to exact viewport breakpoints, lazy-loaded below the fold, and served from an edge CDN to keep Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds on mobile.

XML Sitemap, Robots.txt, and Search Console Submission

A dynamically generated sitemap indexes every published route, robots.txt is configured to block staging paths and permit production crawls, and the sitemap is submitted to Google Search Console before handover so indexing begins the day the site goes live.

Process — 05

Our development process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery and Keyword Architecture

1 week

We audit your target market, map three to five primary keyword clusters with documented search volume and competition data, and define the URL structure and page hierarchy before a single line of code is written.

02

Design Tokens and Component Build

1-2 weeks

A design system of typed tokens — color, spacing, typography — is created in Figma and converted directly to Tailwind configuration so the visual language and the codebase stay in sync without a handoff gap.

03

Development, Schema, and Performance Tuning

1-2 weeks

Next.js pages are built against the approved component library, schema markup is added per page type, image assets are processed through the build pipeline, and Lighthouse audits are run against a staging URL until all scores clear 90.

04

Launch, Indexing, and 30-Day Monitoring

1 week

DNS is cut over with zero-downtime deployment, the sitemap is submitted to Google Search Console, and we monitor crawl coverage, index status, and Core Web Vitals field data for 30 days post-launch to catch any crawl anomalies before they affect ranking.

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Questions — 07

Frequently asked questions

A marketing site -- typically 5 to 10 pages -- starts somewhere between £5,000 and £12,000. E-commerce builds with product catalogues and checkout flow run £12,000 to £25,000. Custom web applications with user accounts and complex logic start at £25,000 and go up from there depending on scope. Every engagement includes SEO setup, JSON-LD schema markup, and Google Search Console submission from day one -- not as an afterthought.
A standard marketing site takes 3 to 4 weeks. E-commerce projects run 4 to 6 weeks. Complex applications typically need 6 to 12 weeks. We set a fixed timeline at the start -- actual dates, not vague estimates -- and we stick to it. No scope creep, no "just a couple more days" stretching into a month.
No. We build on Next.js and Astro, which hit Lighthouse scores of 90+ pretty much out of the box. WordPress sites -- in our experience -- tend to land between 45 and 65 and need constant plugin management just to stay functional. Faster load times, better security, and stronger rankings. It's not even close.
SEO isn't something we bolt on at the end -- it's baked into how we build. Every page ships with proper metadata, JSON-LD schema markup, a sitemap, canonical URLs, and Core Web Vitals optimisation already sorted. Google Search Console gets set up before launch, not after. And beyond the technical side, we'll give you a keyword strategy and content calendar so you've actually got a plan for growing organic traffic once the site's live.
Yes. If you're starting from scratch, we've got full brand launch packages that cover naming, trademark registration, logo design, visual identity, and the website itself. Already have branding locked in? Then we focus purely on the website and SEO. Either way, there's a clear starting point -- and if you need the full package, take a look at our brand launch service for the details.

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