The right CMS for your team — chosen honestly, built properly.
WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, Wix, Squarespace or headless — we recommend the platform that fits your content team, budget and technical needs, then build it to that platform's own standards. No default answer, no platform bias.
- Platform-agnostic — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, Wix & Squarespace
- Recommendation based on your content team & budget, not our preference
- Turnaround
- Typically 3–6 weeks
- Ownership
- Code, content & every account — yours
Fixed price, agreed in writing.
Everything cms development should include — and usually doesn’t.
Honest platform selection
A recommendation based on your content team, budget and technical needs — not whichever platform we'd rather build.
Built to standards
Themes, modules and plugins coded to each platform's own conventions, so updates don't break your site.
Editor-friendly admins
Your content team gets an editing experience they can actually use without a developer on call.
Migrations done safely
Moving between CMSs with content, structure and SEO preserved, not reset to zero.
SEO foundations
Clean markup, schema and sitemaps built in regardless of which platform you choose.
Ongoing care
Updates, backups and small changes handled under a care plan once you're live.
Built on the platform you prefer.
Clean, fast websites on Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or a headless CMS — designed to your brand and easy for your team to run.
- Built on your platform of choice, done properly
- Fast, responsive and SEO-ready from day one
- Your team trained to update it without us
The team serious brands pick for cms development.
We deliver cms development as part of one accountable in-house team — designers, developers and marketers in the same room — across the USA, UK, Canada, UAE, Australia and India. Fixed prices agreed in writing, and you own everything we produce.
Fixed quotes, kept promises
The price you approve is the price you pay — scope changes are agreed in writing before they cost anything.
Senior engineers only
No juniors learning on your budget. The people who quote your project build it.
90+ PageSpeed as standard
Performance budgets are in the contract, not the sales pitch.
You own everything
Code, repos, accounts, designs — full IP assignment from day one.
Weekly clickable demos
See real progress every week; steer while steering is cheap.
A team, not a ticket queue
Named engineers and one point of contact for the whole project — not a different freelancer every sprint.
Trusted by teams across six markets
Why cms development is one of the smartest investments you’ll make.
Not a cost to minimise — money that comes back, in ways you can point to a year from now.
Lower running costs
Clean, update-safe code and right-sized hosting mean fewer emergency fixes and smaller bills for years, not just at launch.
Built to be found
SEO foundations from the first commit mean the site starts earning organic traffic instead of paying for every visitor.
Grows without a rebuild
Architecture chosen for where you're headed, not just where you are — so success doesn't force a rewrite in year two.
Your team can run it
A CMS or admin your people actually understand cuts your dependency on a developer for every small change.
Fixed price protects your budget
The quote you approve is the price you pay — no scope creep eating a budget you'd earmarked elsewhere.
You own the asset outright
Full IP assignment means the site is a business asset on your books, not something you rent from an agency.
How we deliver cms development — step by step.
Discover & plan
We dig into your goals, market and competitors, then agree scope, timeline and success metrics before any code is written.
Design & prototype
Wireframes become polished, on-brand designs you approve up front — no surprises at launch.
Build & test
Senior engineers build in weekly sprints with previews you can click, plus QA across devices and browsers.
Launch & grow
We deploy, monitor and hand over cleanly — then keep optimising with data from real users.
The stack behind our cms development.
Proven, boring-in-a-good-way technology — chosen for speed, security and long-term maintainability, not résumé décor.
WordPressMost common CMS
GhostPublishing & newsletters
Wix StudioHosted, fast to launch
SquarespaceDesign-led hosted sites
PHPUnderlying language for most
MySQLCommon database layerCMS Development packages & pricing.
Fixed quotes, no hourly surprises — these are honest starting points; your exact quote is itemised free within one business day.
Starter
Get online on the right CMS
- Platform recommendation & setup
- Up to 8 designed pages
- CMS + editor training
- Core SEO foundations
- Analytics & lead tracking
- 30-day post-launch support
Growth
Built to generate leads
- Up to 20 pages + blog
- Custom theme/template build
- Content model & structure
- 90+ PageSpeed target
- Full schema & technical SEO
- 90-day support + care plan option
Scale
Complex or headless builds
- Complex content architecture
- Headless CMS + custom frontend
- Multisite / multilingual setup
- Migration from another CMS
- Architecture documentation
- SLA-backed support options
Prices are honest starting points for typical scope — complex projects are quoted precisely, and the quote is always free.
What lands in your hands.
- Platform recommendation & rationale
- Custom theme/template build
- Content model & structure
- Editor training session
- SEO foundations
- Care plan options
Don’t see something you need on this list? Ask — we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s in scope, and quote it if it is.
Signed into every cms development engagement.
Fixed quote, no surprises
The approved price is the final price for the agreed scope.
On-time delivery
A dated sprint plan on day one — and we keep it.
30-day post-launch support
Bugs and tweaks after launch are on us, not on a new invoice.
Your IP, fully assigned
Everything we make for you belongs to you. In writing.
CMS Development insights, free to steal.
The same thinking we bill for, written up properly — guides our clients read before (and after) hiring us.
12 things we do inside this service.
Not a menu of upsells — this is the scope we work within. If what you need is on this list, it’s in the quote. If it isn’t, ask and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right people.
CMS Development — the full scope.
Every capability below is work we do in-house. Nothing is subcontracted, and nothing is a placeholder for a conversation about scope later.
- In-house team only
- One accountable contact
- 12 capabilities, quoted upfront
Platform selection & strategy
Choosing the right CMS for your content team, budget and technical needs — honestly, not by default.
What that covers
- CMS platform comparison & recommendation
- Content strategy & information architecture
- Technical requirements assessment
- Budget & total-cost-of-ownership modelling
- Editor workflow design
- Hosting & infrastructure planning
Migration & content architecture
Moving between platforms without losing content, structure or search rankings.
What that covers
- Cross-CMS content migration
- URL redirect mapping to protect SEO
- Content type & taxonomy modelling
- Metadata & media migration
- Multi-site & multilingual architecture
- Post-migration QA & validation
Often combined with
These sit in the same discipline and are usually scoped together — one team, one timeline, one invoice.
Your cms development project, stage by stage.
Most agency process diagrams describe the agency. This one describes what lands in your inbox — because that’s the part you can hold us to.
Discovery & architecture
Before anything is designed, we work out what the thing has to do, what it has to talk to, and what would make it fail.
- Audit of the existing site, data and integrations
- Data model and API contracts agreed in writing
- Technical decisions documented with the reasoning, not just the choice
- Scope written down and priced — fixed before work starts
Design & prototype
Something clickable before anything is built, because changing a prototype costs hours and changing a build costs weeks.
- Wireframes for the flows that carry the most traffic
- High-fidelity design in Figma, on-brand and responsive
- Component library so later pages stay consistent
- Accessibility checked at design stage (WCAG 2.2 AA), not retrofitted
Build
Work ships to a staging link continuously, so you're never waiting until the end to see progress.
- Staging environment live from week one
- TypeScript end to end — type errors caught before they ship
- Version control with reviewable history
- Weekly progress you can look at, not a status email
Testing & review
The stage most agencies compress. We test on real devices and fix what we find before you see it.
- Cross-browser and real-device testing, not just a desktop resize
- Performance measured against Core Web Vitals thresholds
- Accessibility audit — keyboard, screen reader, contrast
- Forms, payments and integrations tested end to end
Launch
Planned rather than hoped. Redirects mapped first, because a launch that loses rankings costs more than it delivered.
- 301 redirect map from every old URL
- DNS, SSL and email deliverability verified before cutover
- Analytics and Search Console configured and confirmed reporting
- Rollback plan agreed in advance
After launch
Thirty days of fixes at no charge, then whatever ongoing support genuinely suits you — or none.
- 30 days of post-launch fixes included
- Handover session, plus documentation you keep
- All accounts, code and assets transferred to you
- Optional retainer — no lock-in, 30 days' notice
CMS Development questions, answered.
Straight answers, no fine print. If yours isn't here, ask us — we reply within one business day.
Still have questions?
Real humans, one business day.
- No-obligation, fixed quote — free
- Talk to the team who'll build it
- Reply within one business day
It depends on your content team's size, technical comfort, budget and how the site needs to grow — there's no universal answer. We assess your situation and recommend from WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, Wix or Squarespace, and say honestly if a fully custom build suits you better.
Often paired with cms development.
Ready to talk cms development?
Let's build it together.
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