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It looks like everyone else's
A theme bought for £50 is also on a thousand other sites. Visitors can't tell you apart from the competitor they looked at a minute ago, so price becomes the only difference.
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Designed around your customers, engineered for speed, built to bring in enquiries.
Templates make every business look the same. We design and build your site from a blank page, around what your customers need to see before they pick up the phone, then hand it over with a CMS your team can run.
- Typical timeline for a small business site
- 4–6 wks
- Typical timeline for a small business site
- Mobile PageSpeed score we build to
- 90+
- Mobile PageSpeed score we build to
- Of the code and content owned by you
- 100%
- Of the code and content owned by you
yourbrand.com
New enquiry
Custom designNext.js or WordPressEasy-to-edit CMSSEO built inFast on every phoneAccessible to WCAG 2.2 AAAnalytics and trackingLaunch and handoverCustom designNext.js or WordPressEasy-to-edit CMSSEO built inFast on every phoneAccessible to WCAG 2.2 AAAnalytics and trackingLaunch and handover
Sound familiar?
The problems we hear most often before someone asks us about custom business websites.
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Nobody can update it
Changing a phone number means emailing a developer and waiting a week. So the site drifts out of date, and an out-of-date site quietly tells people you might be too.
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It's slow and it doesn't sell
Heavy page builders, unoptimised images and a vague homepage. People wait, skim, and leave without ever finding the button that would have turned them into a customer.
What's included
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Discovery and sitemap
We learn your customers, competitors and goals, then plan every page and the path a visitor takes from first click to enquiry.
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Custom design
A design system made for your brand, shown on real content in a clickable prototype before we write production code.
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Development
Hand-built in Next.js or WordPress, chosen for how your team works. Clean, documented code you own outright.
04
CMS your team can use
Edit pages, posts, team members and offers without touching code, with previews before anything goes live.
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SEO and speed foundations
Clean URLs, meta data, schema, XML sitemap, redirects from your old site and Core Web Vitals in the green.
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Launch and training
We launch, monitor and fix anything that shows up, then train your team and record a walkthrough you can rewatch.
How we do it
You follow every step live in Mission Control, your project dashboard: tasks, files, approvals and a launch forecast.
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Discover
Workshops, competitor review and a look at your analytics. We agree the goals the site has to hit and how we'll measure them.
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Design
Wireframes for structure, then high-fidelity designs and a prototype. You comment directly on the page instead of in long email threads.
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Build
We build in short cycles on a staging site you can open any time. Every flow is tested on real phones, browsers and screen readers.
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Launch and hand over
Redirects, analytics, search console and a launch checklist, then training and a recorded walkthrough for your team.
4–6 wks
Typical timeline for a small business site
90+
Mobile PageSpeed score we build to
100%
Of the code and content owned by you
Built for
Who this is for.
Service businesses that win work through enquiries
Companies outgrowing a template or page builder
Teams that need to edit the site without a developer
Businesses rebranding or entering a new market
Tools we useNext.jsReactWordPressLaravelNode.jsTailwind CSSVercelCloudflare
Helpful extras
Try it yourself, or see what's built in.
Questions
Custom business websites, answered.
Something else on your mind? Ask the Zelvorm Concierge in the corner, or talk to the team.
It depends on the number of templates, integrations and how much content we write. After a short discovery call we give you a fixed quote with every deliverable listed, so there are no surprises. Our guide to website costs explains what drives the price.
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The rest of the toolkit.
- 01Landing page designOne audience, one offer, one action. Built to make your ad spend work harder.
- 02E-commerce storesProduct pages people trust, a checkout that doesn't leak, and SEO that brings shoppers back.
- 03WordPress developmentCustom themes and blocks your team will love, without the plugin pile that slows most WordPress sites down.
- 04Website maintenance & supportUpdates, security, backups and a developer on call, so launch day isn't the best the site ever looks.
- 05Website speed optimisationWe find what's slowing your site down and fix it, until Core Web Vitals turn green.
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