Websites & platforms
Websites and web platforms, built for the job people need to do.
From a clear business website to a connected customer portal, we design and develop web experiences around the people who use and manage them.
Illustration: a component written as code beside the order status card it renders for an example supplier, with React, Next.js and Astro tiles below. Three lines of code are highlighted in turn, each with the part of the card it controls.
Applications, portals and websites, built for real tasks.
Applications and portals lead our web work: software for tasks with roles, rules and records, such as an order status a customer can check or an approval a team signs off. Websites and the CMS behind them explain the offer and stay manageable by your team.
Custom web applications
Software for processes that spreadsheets and disconnected tools can no longer support, with workflows, permissions and business data in one product.
View Web application developmentCustomer portals
Shared documents, project updates, requests and account information, with each account seeing only what it should.
View Customer portal developmentWebsite design
A website that helps people understand your business, find the right service and get in touch.
View Website designCMS development
A website your team can actually manage: everyday edits stay simple while layouts, permissions and publishing stay under control.
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What must people be able to do on the web?
A business website explains and helps someone choose. A web application lets someone complete a task. A portal gives an existing customer controlled access to information and actions. These experiences can share a design system but need different content, permissions and operational support. We start with the people involved and the work they need to finish, then decide what kind of web product fits.
See a customer portal from the inside.
Follow an example portal from the customer’s invitation to a resolved request, then switch roles in Example Supply Co., a fictional supplier portal, on the web applications page.
Customer portal walkthrough
The invitation, the shared view, a request with its reference and the exceptions, step by step.
See the walkthrough: Customer portal walkthroughExplore a portal by role
Switch between a customer administrator, a customer user and staff, and see what each one may see and do.
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Find the right web route.
The options below differ by the problem they solve and the responsibility they create after launch.
| Question | Business websiteView Website design | Web applicationView Web application development | Customer portalView Customer portal development | Existing websiteView Website redesign & migration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The main job | Explain an offer and invite a conversation | Put a workflow online | Give customers controlled access to their account | Remove what holds the current site back |
| What it needs | Structure, clear language, useful evidence and a direct next step | Roles, rules, records and integrations | Account-level access, checked on the server | An inventory of content, URLs, forms and integrations |
| Who runs it | Your editors, through a CMS | Operators, with a review and release process for changes | An owner for invitations, corrections and access reviews | The current team, from an agreed baseline |
| After launch | Content updates and maintenance | An operating model, not only source code | Access administration as part of the product | Controlled changes and an agreed response model |
Website design
Start here when discovery and understanding are the main problems.
Web application development
Start here when users need roles, rules, records or integrations that pages cannot provide.
Customer portal development
Start here when existing customers need their own account view.
Website redesign & migration
Start here when content, URLs, forms and search signals must survive the change.
Decide what to retain before choosing a framework.
We review your current site, editor workflow, analytics, critical URLs and connected systems. That makes it possible to compare repair, extension and replacement on practical grounds. The choice of CMS or framework follows the content model, application behavior, team skills and expected maintenance, not a preference for a particular technology name. If migration is involved, redirects and rollback belong in the plan.
Keep what works. Change what holds you back.
An established Joomla or WordPress site already contains valuable content, useful integrations and habits your team relies on. Modernization should start with the limitation you want to remove: slow pages, difficult editing, a growing customer portal or business rules that no longer fit a collection of plugins. We can assess the existing site and plan a route to Django, Laravel, React with Next.js or Astro where that choice serves the business.
Improve the existing CMS
For a publishing-led site, an upgrade, a better content model or focused performance work may solve the problem with less disruption. Keep familiar editing when it still meets your needs.
View Joomla migration & upgradesSeparate content from the frontend
Retain a suitable CMS and build the public experience in React with Next.js, or in Astro, around its published content. Plan previews, search, forms and deployment as part of the architecture, rather than assuming an API provides the whole editorial workflow.
View React & Next.js developmentBuild around business workflows
When permissions, transactions or integrations are the main challenge, a custom application in Django or Laravel may be a better foundation. Define the rules and the operational work before choosing between them.
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The stacks behind our web work.
Application stacks for products with rules and integrations; content platforms where publishing leads. The framework follows the product shape, the team’s skills and the expected maintenance.
Application stacks
React and Next.js
Interactive interfaces with a rendering strategy chosen for what each page needs.
View React & Next.js developmentNode.js
APIs, integrations and application services, with validation and authorization designed alongside the endpoints.
View Node.js developmentLaravel
Custom platforms, portals and internal workflows built around clear business rules.
View Laravel developmentDjango
Portals, business applications and data-led workflows, with the data model in focus.
View Django development
Content platforms
Drupal
Structured publishing for substantial content models, permissions and editorial workflows.
View Drupal developmentWordPress
Business sites and publishing, with a clear structure behind the editing flexibility.
View WordPress developmentJoomla
Build, upgrade and maintain the Joomla sites your team relies on.
View Joomla development
A useful first brief starts with the current site.
Bring the website address, the important journeys, the integrations and the changes you want. We review what can stay, what needs replacement and which unknowns affect the estimate.
What to bring
The website address
The journeys that matter most
Integrations and connected systems
The page or task causing the most friction, and who it affects
The changes you want
A proposed route should explain the editing experience, data migration, launch checks and ongoing maintenance together.
Design, implementation, content, hosting and long-term care can be coordinated, but their deliverables should remain clear in the proposal.
Scope and cost drivers
Content volume, bespoke extensions, user accounts, third-party connections and the cutover window affect effort. Review the scope and estimate basis before committing to a full rebuild.
View how pricing worksSearch visibility during a move
Map valuable pages to relevant destinations and check public HTML, redirects and navigation before retiring the old application.
Read the guide: Website migration SEO checklistWebsite redesign & migration
Improve the experience while protecting the journeys people and search engines already use.
View Website redesign & migrationWebsite maintenance
Updates, fixes and planned improvements, with coverage and change control agreed.
View Website maintenanceWhen should you redesign your website?
Redesign when the current site creates a barrier that targeted improvements cannot reasonably solve.
Read the guide: When should you redesign your website?
Some of the teams we have worked with.
Across talent, fitness, mobility, payments and local commerce.Questions about web projects.
Should we redesign the site or build an application?
If the main need is to explain, compare and invite contact, a clearer website may be enough. If people must sign in, act on records or follow business rules, an application or portal may be needed. We examine the actual task before selecting the route.
Can our team edit the result?
That depends on the agreed content model and ownership plan. For publishing work, we define which pages, media and metadata editors should control in a CMS. For application behavior, changes to permissions or code require a different review and release process.
Can you move Joomla or WordPress to a modern stack?
Yes, we can assess a move to Django, Laravel, Next.js, React or Astro. The route depends on publishing needs, application logic and integrations. We first compare improving the current CMS, retaining it as a content source and rebuilding the application; a full rewrite is not automatically the best choice.
Which technologies do you build web platforms with?
The product decides. React and Next.js suit interactive interfaces, Node.js suits APIs and integration services, and Laravel and Django suit custom applications and portals. For publishing-led sites we work with Drupal, WordPress and Joomla, and Astro is an option for content-led public pages.
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Bring the task your website or tools make hard.
Describe who is affected and what they need to finish. We can outline the route, the questions discovery must answer and a first release boundary.
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