Development.

Platforms & experience

The majority of our websites are built using the secure, fast and easy-to-use content management system, MODX. Amongst these benefits, the CMS also gives us the freedom to make rich and engaging online experiences. We also utilise Laravel (either in isolation or combined with MODX) to build highly complicated solutions from specialist, modular parts of reusable functionality.

Within the charity sector, we have created bespoke donation pages to create a seamless experience that keeps visitors on-site throughout the donation funnel. Combined with A/B split testing and monitoring, we can fine-tune the donation process to ensure consistently great conversion rates. Combined with our knowledge managing Google Ad Grants, we can increase traffic to your most engaging landing pages to lead users towards making a donation.

For those who specifically request it, we also build and support WordPress websites and build ecommerce websites in WooCommerce. For larger scale ecommerce businesses, we work with Magento. As every site we build is connected to at least one other system such as a CRM (like SalesForce), payment provider (like Stripe and PayPal), SMS or email notification platform (like Twilio and MailChimp), we know how to integrate these seamlessly for you.

Technology stack

We are advocates and contributors to Laravel and MODX and our developers are equally at home with front and back-end code. Server-side, we use a LEMP stack (Linux, NGINX, MySQL and PHP). On the front-end, the team have seasoned HTML, JS & CSS skills and create rich, interactive web and native apps using frameworks Vue and React. Our code is version-controlled with local, development and live environments which allow multiple developers to collaborate on the same project at the same time. This also allows any bugs to be identified and fixed quickly and efficiently. We test websites using a suite of devices in the studio and in the cloud.As for hosting, we partner with UKFast - the UK's largest independently-owned hosting provider. As well as being blazingly fast and secure, the data centre is 100% carbon neutral.