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Web Design & Development engineered like infrastructure.

Your site is the handoff point between ad spend and sales conversations. We build that handoff the way engineers build critical infrastructure. Measured, tested, accessible, and fast. Figma systems, WordPress, Shopify, and headless stacks engineered around the numbers that actually matter to the business.

Conversion
Every template reviewed against a conversion checklist before it ships. Hero clarity, trust signals, CTA visibility, mobile tap targets.
Performance
LCP under 2.5 seconds on mobile 4G. INP under 200 milliseconds. CLS under 0.1. Hard thresholds. Measured on every deploy.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA is the floor. Semantic HTML, keyboard paths, focus rings, screen-reader labels, and color contrast on every page.
Stacks we design, build, and ship on
  • Figma Design systems + production comps
  • WordPress Block themes, ACF, editor-first
  • Shopify Theme dev + Liquid + headless
  • Astro Static + islands, blazing fast
  • Next.js App Router, RSC, edge-ready
  • Webflow Low-code CMS with dev controls
  • Figma Design systems + production comps
  • WordPress Block themes, ACF, editor-first
  • Shopify Theme dev + Liquid + headless
  • Astro Static + islands, blazing fast
  • Next.js App Router, RSC, edge-ready
  • Webflow Low-code CMS with dev controls
  • Figma Design systems + production comps
  • WordPress Block themes, ACF, editor-first
  • Shopify Theme dev + Liquid + headless
  • Astro Static + islands, blazing fast
  • Next.js App Router, RSC, edge-ready
  • Webflow Low-code CMS with dev controls
  • Figma Design systems + production comps
  • WordPress Block themes, ACF, editor-first
  • Shopify Theme dev + Liquid + headless
  • Astro Static + islands, blazing fast
  • Next.js App Router, RSC, edge-ready
  • Webflow Low-code CMS with dev controls
Why hire us on a rebuild specifically

What most web builds ship without.

Conversion-first UX over vanity design.

Beautiful sites that do not convert are liabilities. Every template we ship gets reviewed against a checklist before the dev hands it over. Hero clarity, trust signals, CTA visibility, form length, mobile tap targets. The page earns its position in the funnel before it earns its aesthetic.

Core Web Vitals as a requirement.

LCP under 2.5 seconds. INP under 200 milliseconds. CLS under 0.1. Measured on mobile 4G with a real device profile. If the site cannot hit the thresholds we do not ship it. Performance is a hard gate. It earns its spot ahead of the aesthetic review.

Audit on your desk.

Within one business day.

24h
Audit response window, every time

Shipped, monitored, iterated.

Launch is not the finish line. Every build ships with synthetic monitoring, real-user metrics, and an accessibility scan on a recurring schedule. When a plugin update or a third-party embed drops a score, we see it the same day the user would.

A beautiful site that does not convert is a liability. A converting site that loads in four seconds is still a liability.

Most rebuilds start with a mood board and end with a site nobody wants to edit. The copy goes stale because the CMS is painful. The mobile experience is an afterthought. Core Web Vitals are flagged on launch day and stay flagged until somebody quietly stops looking at the report. The marketing team ends up running ads to a site that leaks conversion at every step.

Our web engagement starts with the funnel and the data. What is the goal of this page. Who is visiting it. What friction is in the way. Then we design around removing that friction and engineer around loading in under two seconds on a mid-range phone. The result is a site that carries its weight in the paid program, the SEO program, and the sales program at the same time.

Three principles

What separates a fast site from a converting one.

01

Conversion-first UX.

Every page template gets reviewed against a conversion checklist before it ships. Hero clarity, trust signals, CTA visibility, form length, mobile tap targets. No vanity patterns that look cool in a Dribbble shot and quietly cost you bookings on a Pixel 6. The page earns its position in the funnel before it earns its aesthetic.

  • Hero reviewed for one-glance value prop + clear CTA
  • Trust signals above the fold on every service page
  • Forms stripped to the fields that actually qualify
Before
  • Vanity hero carousel nobody clicks
  • 12-field contact form above a phone number
  • CTAs buried below three fold-heights of copy
  • Trust signals on a hidden About page
  • Mobile tap targets under 44 pixels
After rebuild
  • Static hero with a clear offer and a single CTA
  • 3-field qualifier form on every service page
  • CTA in the hero and repeated every section
  • Reviews, warranties, licenses visible above the fold
  • Tap targets 48 pixels with 8-pixel safe margin
Illustrative. Every template runs through the same checklist before it ships.
Core Web Vitals · hard thresholds
Metric
LCP
INP
CLS
TTFB
Target
<2.5s · mobile 4G
<200ms · first input
<0.1 · layout shift
<800ms · server response
Measurement
Real-user + Lighthouse
Real-user weekly
Synthetic on deploy
Host + CDN log
The thresholds are Google's. We treat them as a ship gate. Every deploy measured on real devices.
02

Core Web Vitals as a requirement.

LCP under 2.5 seconds. INP under 200 milliseconds. CLS under 0.1. Measured on mobile 4G with a real device profile so the numbers match what your customers actually experience. If the build cannot hit the thresholds we do not ship it. Hard gates compound. A fast site lifts paid efficiency, organic rank, and conversion rate at the same time.

  • Synthetic Lighthouse run on every deploy
  • Real-user monitoring on every template after launch
  • Regression alerts when a score drops out of green
03

Built for iteration.

A site your team cannot change cheaply is a site that will go stale. We build on stacks your in-house team can actually edit, with a component library that turns a new landing page into a one-hour job instead of a two-week sprint. Launch day is the start of the program.

  • CMS your marketing team can publish from without a dev
  • Template library that spins up landing pages in hours
  • A/B test hooks wired in on day one of the build
Template
Page schema + component library
Landing page
New offer live same-day
A/B test
Variant ships via feature flag
Illustrative. Every template ships once. Every page built from it ships in hours.
Back of the envelope

Rough math on a site rebuild.

Three inputs, three numbers. Useful for framing how much new pipeline a conversion-first rebuild can produce from the traffic you already have. Directional only. Your real lift depends on the quality of the current site, the offer, and how motivated your market is.

/ mo
Sessions per month across every source. Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, or whatever your CMS reports.
%
Share of sessions that become a lead, booking, or order today. Most home-service and ecommerce sites sit between 1% and 3%.
%
How much higher the new site converts than the old one. Realistic range when the current site is dated is 25% to 80%.
Directional only
Customers per month today
~360
Customers per month after rebuild
~504
Incremental customers per month
~144

The incremental number is pipeline the rebuild produces from the same traffic you already have. It is not a promise. It is a sanity check on whether a rebuild is worth scoping at all. If the number feels high, dial the lift input down. If it feels low, the current site is probably closer to best-practice than you think.

What you get

Six deliverables inside every web build engagement.

Every web design and development engagement ships with these six as the baseline. Additional scope layers on top depending on page count, integration complexity, and whether the project includes a commerce stack or a custom headless backend.

Design system and build review on a laptop during a site rebuild
Every deliverable scoped before kickoff. Nothing billed that was not named.
01

Figma design system

Component-based design system with a typography scale, color tokens, spacing rhythm, and page templates. Delivered with documentation so your team can extend it without a reset.

02

WordPress builds

Custom block themes or headless builds on ACF. Editor-first, fast, and maintainable by non-engineers. Your team ships copy changes and city pages without a ticket queue.

03

Headless + modern stacks

Astro, Next.js, or Sveltekit for brands where performance is a competitive advantage or the integration graph is complex. Deployed to Cloudflare, Vercel, or Netlify.

04

Landing page factory

A reusable LP system that lets your team or ours ship new pages in hours. Component library, copy scaffolding, and built-in A/B test hooks wired from the first build.

05

Accessibility baseline

WCAG 2.2 AA as the floor on every engagement. Semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels, focus management, and color contrast audited on every page template.

06

Analytics + tracking wiring

GA4, GTM, server-side events, and conversion tracking wired from day one. Your site ships with clean data flowing to the platforms that pay for it.

Process

How the first 90 days of a web build go.

Phase 01 Week 1-2

Audit

What is the current site doing. Where are the conversion leaks. What pages carry weight and which are dead. Done with session recordings, heatmaps, and analytics.

Phase 02 Week 3-4

Blueprint

Site architecture, template plan, and page-by-page conversion strategy. Delivered before any design work begins.

Phase 03 Week 5-10

Design

Figma design system plus template designs. Reviewed against the conversion checklist.

What good looks like

A site your marketing team can scale behind.

Specific numbers depend on your traffic, your offer, and where the current site is starting from. What we commit to is the method and the transparency. Here is what clients feel, quarter over quarter, when the rebuild is working.

Predictable.
Pages that load in under two seconds on mobile. Templates that convert inside a tested range. Shipping a new landing page is a one-hour job instead of a two-week sprint.
Fixed-scope · measured on deploy
Owned.
Your hosting account, your repo, your CMS, your Figma file, your domain. Every credential issued in your name and handed over on day one.
Day one and every day after
Defensible.
Accessibility baseline in place. Core Web Vitals in the green. Schema.org markup on every template. The site holds up when a new ad channel, an audit, or a SEC-level compliance check lands on the calendar.
WCAG 2.2 AA · CWV green · audit-ready
Illustrative engagement

What a typical web rebuild quarter can look like.

This is a generalized example to show the shape of the work. Every engagement starts with a forensic audit, and the audit tells us what is actually realistic for your site, your stack, and the shape of the traffic you already have.

What a two-week audit covers
  • Analytics + funnel audit
  • Core Web Vitals + performance audit
  • Content, URL, and internal-link audit
  • CMS + editor-workflow review
Largest Contentful Paint
>4s on mobile <2.5s on mobile
Accessibility
Baseline missing WCAG 2.2 AA
Editor workflow
Developer-only Team-editable
Staged web build review on a laptop during a site rebuild
Investment

Web design and development pricing that makes sense.

Fixed-fee build, priced to page count and template complexity. Optional monthly retainer for ongoing CRO and template development.

Fixed-fee audit. Scoped in advance. Credited against the rebuild if you proceed.
Fixed-fee build priced to page count and template complexity. No hourly billing. Every deliverable named before kickoff.
Monthly retainer sized to CRO velocity and template cadence. A straight fee tied to what we ship, with no markup on hosting or SaaS costs.
You own everything. The hosting, the repo, the CMS, the Figma file. Day one.
Frequently asked

Questions we get asked every week.

  • What platform do you recommend?

    WordPress for content-heavy service businesses. Shopify for ecommerce. Headless (Astro, Next, Sveltekit) for brands where performance is a competitive advantage or integrations are complex. We choose the platform after understanding the business.

  • Will I be able to edit the site after launch?

    Yes. Editor-friendly CMS is a hard requirement on every build. Your team should be able to add pages, update copy, and launch new service areas without calling us.

  • Do you handle hosting?

    We deploy most WordPress builds to Kinsta, WP Engine, or Rocket. Headless builds go to Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, or Netlify. You own the hosting account.

  • How long does a typical build take?

    A marketing site for a home-service operator is usually 8 to 14 weeks from blueprint to launch. A more complex ecommerce or multi-location build runs 12 to 20 weeks.

  • Can you migrate our old site without tanking SEO?

    Yes, and this is where most redesigns quietly go wrong. Our migration playbook includes a complete URL audit, a 301 redirect matrix, a parallel staging environment, and a launch-week ranking monitor. Done right, a migration should produce a ranking lift.

Reviews

In their words.

Pulled from strategy calls, Slack threads, and end-of-quarter recaps. Names and companies anonymized, voice unchanged.

H
Hollis B.
Owner, Copperline Plumbing
2 months ago

Our old site was built in 2019 and it looked like it. We described what we wanted on one call and they came back with a blueprint that matched what we'd hire for if we had it in-house. The new site opens on mobile in about a second. Booking form traffic from Google Ads feels different now.

D
Devon M.
VP Growth, Northmark Apparel
5 weeks ago

We replatformed from Magento to Shopify with them. Checkout conversion and LCP both moved in the right direction the day we flipped DNS. The Figma system they left us means our in-house team ships landing pages without a dev in the loop.

A
Annika R.
Managing Partner, Beacon Insulation
3 weeks ago

WordPress rebuild on their block theme. The editor experience is so much better that our office manager started writing city service pages herself. Page speed scores are all green on mobile. PageSpeed Insights used to make me close the tab.

G
Gideon W.
Founder, Halcyon Wellness
a month ago

We had a WCAG complaint from a customer and a Shopify theme that failed half of it. They rebuilt the storefront on a headless Hydrogen stack with accessibility baked in from day one. The complaint went away and the site is noticeably faster.

Next step

Rebuild your site around conversion.

A 30-minute call. We'll walk your actual numbers and tell you the three things we'd change first.