Structure before design
What each page is for, who arrives on it, and what they need to do next. Most website problems are structural, and no amount of visual work fixes them.
guest@make-directory:~$ run ./capabilities/websites.sh
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Website Development
We build websites that explain what you do, earn customer trust, support search visibility, and connect cleanly to the workflows behind the business.
guest@make-directory:~$ ls ./what-we-handle
from idea to working system
What we review, plan, and build into the work.
Content systems, not one-off pages
Reusable sections your team can edit without calling us. A site that only we can change becomes a site that stops changing.
Build on what fits
WordPress where a CMS earns its keep, Next.js or React where the site is closer to an application, and plain and boring where that is genuinely enough.
The workflows behind the form
Enquiries, bookings, intake, payments, and the systems they land in. A contact form that emails an inbox nobody watches is not a working website.
Performance and accessibility as build criteria
Both are much cheaper to get right during the build than to retrofit after launch, and both are checkable rather than matters of opinion.
Launch details
Redirects, metadata, analytics, monitoring, and the search equity of whatever was there before. This is where most rebuilds quietly lose traffic.
guest@make-directory:~$ cat ./outcomes.md
what this should clarify
The goal is a clear technical path with practical next steps.
Clearer customer paths from first visit to inquiry
Reusable content sections your team can keep improving
Responsive pages that feel intentional on every screen
Launch details handled: redirects, metadata, analytics, and forms
Commerce and intake workflows connected where they matter
A site foundation that can grow with the business
guest@make-directory:~$ cat ./website-care.md
smaller than an engagement
Your site, kept running.
Steady upkeep for a WordPress site that works and needs to stay that way — patched, backed up, watched, and edited when you ask, without anyone in-house having to remember it.
from $1,399.99 per month
You’re here if
You rely on a WordPress site, nobody is really looking after it, and you do not need a development team on hand.
The floor covers one straightforward site, and moves with the number of sites, how much editing you use, and how quickly you need us when something breaks.
Planning something bigger — a rebuild, new features, or a site built on something other than WordPress? That is where Essential picks up. Not sure which you need? Ask us and we will tell you.
- WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates
- Backups, with a tested restore
- Uptime and certificate monitoring
- Up to two hours of content or copy edits each month
- A named person to email when something breaks
guest@make-directory:~$ cat ./related-paths.md
guest@make-directory:~$ mkdir ./solve-this
next step
Share what needs attention. We will recommend the right starting point.
Share the customer issue, internal workflow, current system, or launch goal. We will use that context to recommend an assessment, scoping sprint, implementation plan, or simpler next step.