Website development
Professional Websites Built for Authors, Publishers & Growing Businesses
We design, build and improve websites, and the digital experience around them, for authors, publishing professionals and businesses that need to be taken seriously online.
What we build
New sites, or the site you already have.
Work begins either from a blank page or from the design and content you already own.
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From scratch
A new site planned around your work, from information architecture to launch.
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From an existing design
Have a design, template or brand system already? We build it faithfully and responsibly.
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Authors
Biography, catalog, individual book pages, events and reader sign-up in one place.
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Publishers and imprints
Catalog structure, rights contact routes and submission guidance.
05
Literary professionals
Agents, translators, editors and narrators presenting services and samples.
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Small and service businesses
Clear service pages, enquiry routing and pages that answer real questions.
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Professional brands and organizations
Considered typography, credible structure and accessible content.
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Portfolios and publishing projects
Galleries, case pages and project archives that stay easy to update.
Website improvement
Improving a site you already trust.
Most projects do not need replacing. They need structure, speed and clarity.
- Visual redesign
- Navigation and information architecture
- Mobile responsiveness
- Performance and loading behaviour
- SEO structure and metadata
- Accessibility, including keyboard and screen reader use
- Typography and reading comfort
- Color systems and contrast
- Page structure and hierarchy
- Conversion flow
- Forms and validation
- Content presentation
- Technical functionality and broken-link repair
Author websites
A home for the book, and the writer behind it.
Author sites are assembled from the parts a reader, journalist or publisher actually looks for.
- Author biography
- Book catalog
- Individual book pages
- Pre-orders
- Events
- Newsletter sign-up
- Media kit
- Reviews
- Blog
- Contact
- Book purchase links
- Audiobook links
- Social links
How it fits together
Each title gets its own page with cover, formats, languages, purchase and audiobook links, and reviews where they exist. Events and pre-orders sit alongside, so a launch does not require a rebuild. Newsletter sign-up and contact are routed to inboxes you control.
Nothing is invented: pages are built to hold real material, and stay presentable while sections are still being filled in.
Business websites
Professional sites for organisations and services.
Corporate websites
Organisation, people and service structure presented plainly.
Service websites
One considered page per service, written to be understood.
Portfolio websites
Project cases with objective, approach and outcome.
Lead-generation websites
Enquiry paths that are honest about what happens next.
Booking systems
Consultation requests routed to the right inbox with confirmations.
Contact systems
Validated, spam-protected forms with server-side checks.
Professional landing pages
Single-purpose pages for a launch, campaign or title.
Client portals
Sign-in areas where each client sees only their own material.
Development process
Eight stages, each with something to review.
You see work at every stage, and nothing moves forward on assumption.
Stage 01
Discovery
We review your current site, audience and goals, and agree what success means in writing.
Stage 02
Planning
Sitemap, page inventory, content requirements and a build schedule with named responsibilities.
Stage 03
Design
Typography, color, layout and component design, reviewed on desktop and mobile before code.
Stage 04
Development
Component-based front-end build with reusable patterns, semantic markup and responsive layouts.
Stage 05
Content
Copy and images placed, edited for hierarchy, with alt text and metadata written per page.
Stage 06
Testing
Cross-browser and device checks, forms, keyboard navigation, contrast and broken-link review.
Stage 07
Optimization
Image sizing, lazy loading, code splitting and font loading tuned before release.
Stage 08
Launch
Deployment, redirects where URLs change, analytics wiring and a short handover walkthrough.
Technology & quality
Built on standards, not shortcuts.
Technologies are chosen per project. We only list what the build actually uses.
- HTML5 and semantic markup
- CSS3 and Tailwind CSS
- Modern JavaScript (ES6+)
- TypeScript
- React
- Modern React frameworks, including Next.js where the project suits it
- Responsive, mobile-first layouts
- SEO structure, metadata and structured data
- Accessibility practices aligned with WCAG
- Performance optimization and image handling
- Server-side validated, spam-protected forms
- Analytics integration
- Restrained, reduced-motion aware animation
Start a project
Let's Build a Digital Presence That Represents Your Work.
Tell us what exists today and what it needs to do. We reply with a written view of scope and sequence.
Questions
Before you enquire.
Can you work from a design I already have?
Yes. We build from your design files, an existing template, or an older site you want carried forward faithfully.
Do I own the website?
Yes. Ownership of content, domain and the delivered code is documented before work starts.
Will the site be accessible and mobile-friendly?
Both are part of the build, not an add-on. Layouts are tested across desktop, tablet and phone, and pages are checked for keyboard use and contrast.
Do you offer ongoing maintenance?
Yes, as a separate agreement covering updates, content changes and technical checks.
Next step
Let's Build a Digital Presence That Represents Your Work.
Start a website project, request a consultation, or look through the portfolio first.