Web Development
A website you can run yourself, built to actually last.
Custom WordPress builds and rebuilds that load fast, work properly on a phone, and hand you the keys at the end, not just a login you are afraid to use.
- You own the code and the hosting, outright
- Built and tested for real mobile connections, not just a desktop preview
- CMS training included, so you can edit it yourself
- No lock-in period on any engagement
Let's Get Started
Send us your website, or tell us what you need built, and we will tell you honestly what it involves.
No obligation, just a friendly chat about your marketing.
Where this fits
A fast site is a foundation, not a finish line.
Every other channel, search, ads, social, sends people to your site. If it is slow or confusing when they land, the rest of that spend is wasted. We treat the build as the thing everything else stands on.
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10 +
Years of experience
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500 +
Projects & campaigns
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20 +
Markets & industries
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1:1
Direct access to your team
What the work covers
The parts of a website build we look after.
Not every project needs all of these. After the review you will know which ones yours needs, and in what order they are worth doing.
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Custom WordPress builds
A site designed around your business rather than forced into a generic template, built on WordPress so you are never dependent on us to make changes.
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Rebuilds and migrations
Moving off a slow theme, an old platform, or a developer who has gone quiet, without losing your content, your addresses, or your rankings.
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Performance optimisation
Image handling, caching and code cleanup so pages load quickly on an ordinary phone on mobile data, which is how most visitors arrive.
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Responsive design
Every screen checked on real phone and tablet sizes during the build, not adjusted afterwards once someone complains.
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Accessibility basics
Proper heading structure, colour contrast, keyboard navigation and alt text, so the site works for more of your visitors, not fewer.
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Ecommerce with WooCommerce
Product catalogues, checkout and payment set up so you can add, price and manage stock yourself once the store is live.
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Integrations
Forms, CRM, payment gateways and booking tools connected properly, so enquiries land where your team actually looks.
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CMS training
A recorded walkthrough of your actual admin screens, so editing a page or swapping an image is not something you need us for.
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Maintenance and security
Ongoing updates, backups and a security watch, available if you want it and never assumed if you do not.
The questions
What business owners usually ask us about websites.
If one of these is on your mind, the answer is usually more straightforward than it feels.
Not sure what your website needs?
Send it over and we'll tell you, honestly, what we'd improve first.
What you end up with
What you are left with when the work is done.
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A site that is genuinely yours
Code and hosting in your own accounts, so nothing about the site depends on us staying reachable.
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The confidence to edit it yourself
A CMS you have actually been trained on, with documentation for the parts that are not obvious on first look.
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A plan for what comes after launch
A clear answer on who handles updates, backups and security, whether that is us or your own team, agreed before launch, not after something breaks.
Who this is for
The businesses we do this work for.
If yours is on this list, you will not have to explain how your market works before we can be useful.
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Local retail & services Shops, salons, studios and local trades
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Healthcare & clinics Clinics, dentists, diagnostics and wellness
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Real estate Agents, brokers, builders and developers
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Education & training Coaching centres, tutors and institutes
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D2C & e-commerce Own-brand stores and marketplace sellers
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Professional services Legal, finance, accounting and consulting
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Hospitality & travel Hotels, restaurants, cafes and travel
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Manufacturing & B2B Suppliers, exporters and B2B manufacturers
Also available
A fast site works harder with the rest.
Most of what makes a new site pay for itself sits next to it. Take one, or take the combination that suits your business.
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Search Engine Optimisation
We look after the technical foundations, the pages that matter most to your business and the authority behind…
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Branding Design
We build the logo, the colour and type system, and the guidelines behind them, so nothing you put…
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Digital Marketing
A written strategy that says which channels earn a budget, how they support each other, and how you…
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Content Marketing
We plan, write and publish the pages, articles and emails that explain your business properly, on a schedule…
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Social Advertising
We build the audiences, produce the creative and manage the campaigns across Meta, Instagram and LinkedIn, so your…
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AI SEO
We make your business easy for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot to find, describe accurately and…
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PPC Advertising
We build and manage Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts around real buying intent, cut the wasted spend…
How we work
A straightforward way to work together.
You will always know what we are working on, why it comes first and what the last piece of work produced.
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Understand
We learn about your business, your customers, your website and the marketing you are doing today, so that any advice we give is grounded in your situation rather than a template.
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Prioritise
We identify the opportunities that make the most sense for your goals and your budget, and set them out in order, so you can see what we would do first and why.
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Do the Work
We handle the agreed work, whether that is SEO, advertising, content, your website or a combination of them, and keep you updated as it goes rather than only at the end.
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Improve
We measure what the work produced and report it plainly, then refine the plan around it. Your budget and our time go to the channels earning their place.
Getting started
Three ways to begin.
Each of them starts with the same free review, so you can decide with the findings already in front of you.
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A site review
A plain-English look at what is slowing your current site down, what is missing, and what a rebuild would actually change. Yours to keep, whoever you choose to work with.
- Speed and mobile performance check
- A look at what you can and cannot edit today
- A written list of what we would fix first
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A new build or rebuild
A defined project with a fixed scope, a start and a finish, quoted in writing before anything begins. Ends with training and a full handover.
- Design, build and CMS training included
- Migration handled without losing content or rankings
- Fixed scope, agreed in writing up front
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Ongoing maintenance
For a site we have already built, or one you already have. Updates, backups and a security watch, handled quietly in the background.
- Core, theme and plugin updates on a schedule
- Regular backups you can actually restore from
- No lock-in period at any point
Why Orion
What you can expect from us.
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Advice
Practical recommendations
We won't recommend something simply because it's another service we can sell. If a smaller piece of work would get you further, that is what we'll suggest.
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Communication
Clear communication
You should always know what we're working on and why. You'll hear from the people doing the work, in language that doesn't need translating.
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Budget
Work that fits your budget
Small businesses don't have unlimited marketing budgets. We plan around what you can realistically invest, and say so when something isn't worth the spend yet.
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Simplicity
No unnecessary complexity
Good marketing can be complicated behind the scenes. It doesn't need to be complicated for you, and we'll keep the reporting and the decisions simple to follow.
In depth
A longer answer, if you want one
A website is not a one-off project. It is a piece of software your business depends on every day: to load fast, to look right on the phone in someone’s hand, and to let you change a price or a paragraph without waiting on a developer. We build in WordPress because it gives you that control, and because a decade from now you will still be able to find someone to work on it.
Some projects are a full rebuild, because the current site is slow, unsafe, or was never really finished. Others are a migration off a platform that is charging monthly fees for less flexibility than you need. Either way, the work covers the same ground: a design that fits how your customers actually browse, a build that is fast and accessible by default, and a handover that leaves you able to run the thing yourself.
A common pattern: a site is built quickly at the start, and the person who built it moves on. Nobody in the business is quite sure how to log in, let alone edit a page, so updates stop happening and plugins go unpatched. Over a few years the site slows down, stops looking right on a phone, and nobody wants to be the one who changes something. That is rarely a technology problem. It is what happens when the keys are never properly handed over.
We build so that does not happen to you. Every site we deliver comes with training on the actual admin screens you will use, documentation for anything non-obvious, and code that belongs to you outright, hosted wherever you choose. If we are unreachable in five years, someone else can pick the project up without starting again.
Launch is not the finish line. WordPress core, plugins and themes need updating on a schedule or the site becomes a target. We offer ongoing maintenance for clients who would rather not think about that themselves, covering updates, backups and a security watch, but it is never a condition of the build. If you would prefer to manage it in-house, we make sure you are equipped to, and we will say so plainly if we think that is the wrong call for your situation.
Questions
Questions we get asked a lot.
It depends on scope, so we do not publish packages that would be wrong for most people. Every project starts with a free review, after which you get a written proposal with a fixed scope and a fixed price. No hourly billing and no surprises.
Yes. We build on the standard WordPress editor rather than a locked-down page builder, and every project ends with a recorded walkthrough of your actual admin screens, plus documentation for anything non-obvious.
Completely. The code and hosting sit in accounts in your name, not ours. If we are ever unreachable, another developer can pick the project up without starting again.
Yes, that is a normal part of a migration. Every address on the old site is mapped to its equivalent on the new one, and we watch Search Console closely for the first few weeks after launch.
Yes, using WooCommerce. It covers most small and mid-sized catalogues well and keeps you on the same platform as the rest of your site, rather than a separate system to manage.
Access to your current site and hosting if one exists, an hour for a first conversation, and a quick answer when we need a decision. That is genuinely it.
Free website review
Let us review your website.
You don't need a brief, a budget or a technical spec. Send us your website and tell us what's working, what's not or simply what you'd like to improve.
- A free review of your current site and its performance
- Where you stand today, in plain English
- What we'd work on first
Request a free website review
Answer what you can. A website address on its own is enough to get a useful reply.
We'll get back to you with our initial thoughts.