Development.

First-class development has always been our bread and butter; each line of code hand-crafted by digital artisans. Our bespoke creations are always tailored to the needs of the audience, from websites, apps and email campaigns to games, tools and digital reports.

Our development team

Studio Republic was born from a love of building first-class websites. Despite may aspects of our business evolving along our journey, this remains a core service offering today. All of our developers are full-stack and our design and development teams work side-by-side throughout the process, positively challenging each other, pushing the boundaries and embracing new techniques. We have launched a huge variety of work into the world since our humble beginnings, from single-page brochure websites to complex digital transformation projects and everything in-between. The quality of our work is the result of our developers being as passionate about pixel-perfection as our designers.

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.

UX optimisation

We know that the key to serving your audience/s a satisfying, frictionless and enjoyable online experience is effective User Experience (UX). That’s why we’re not just passionate but committed to analysing and optimising the UX of each project. While UX is researched, tested and monitored throughout our design process, we can also continue to study usability and engagement throughout the life of each creation. As our psychological interpretation evolves with cultural, technological and economic shifts, we adapt our designs to suit.

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.