Service
Website Design & Maintenance
A site built to be found, and kept that way.
Quick answer
Most business websites are designed as brochures and then expected to perform as marketing assets. A site built for search is structured differently: fast, semantically clean, organized around how customers actually search, and maintained continuously rather than rebuilt every four years.
What you get
- Site architecture organized around how customers search
- Semantic HTML with correct heading structure and landmarks
- Structured data describing the business accurately
- Performance budgeted during the build rather than fixed afterward
- Accessible interaction patterns, keyboard included
- Ongoing maintenance — updates, fixes, and new pages as the business changes
Why it matters
Design and findability are the same problem
A beautiful site that buries its content in images, loads slowly, and has no clear page structure will not rank. The constraints that make a site legible to a search engine largely overlap with the ones that make it usable.
Content needs somewhere to live
A content programme produces pages, and those pages need a structure to slot into. Sites built as five-page brochures have nowhere to put a growing library, which is why content on them so often ends up in an unstructured blog nobody can navigate.
Rebuilds are expensive; decay is avoidable
The four-year rebuild cycle exists because nobody maintained the site in between. Continuous maintenance costs less in total and avoids the ranking disruption a full rebuild frequently causes.
AI assistants read structure, not design
An assistant deciding whether to cite you is parsing markup, headings, and structured data. A site that looks impressive and is structurally incoherent is invisible to that process.
Questions people actually ask
Do we need a new website or just better content?
Usually content, unless the site is genuinely blocking you — very slow, unstructured, or impossible to add pages to. The honest answer requires looking at what exists. Rebuilding a site that works is an expensive way to avoid the harder work of publishing.
Will a rebuild hurt our existing rankings?
It can, and this is where most rebuilds go wrong. URLs change without redirects, content gets cut, and the site loses ground it took years to gain. Done carefully — with a URL map and redirects in place before launch — the risk is manageable.
What platform do you build on?
Whatever suits the business and the people who will maintain it. The important properties are speed, clean markup, and the ability to add pages without a developer. The platform matters far less than whether those three hold.
What does maintenance actually involve?
Platform and plugin updates, fixing things that break, adding and updating pages, monitoring performance, and periodically reviewing content that has aged. It is unglamorous and it is what prevents the decay that makes a rebuild feel necessary.
How is this priced?
Builds are scoped per project against the page count and complexity; maintenance is an ongoing monthly engagement. We quote both after reviewing what exists and what the content plan requires of it.
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Cited by ChatGPT · Perplexity · Google AI Overviews