Web Development
Sites built to be maintained, not just launched
Thirty services covering a first marketing site through to multi-tenant SaaS, plus the unglamorous work — migrations, malware removal, accessibility remediation — that keeps existing sites alive.
The Nexclick builds websites, ecommerce stores and web applications for UK businesses, on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Next.js and Laravel. Projects start from £4,500 and a straightforward marketing site takes six to ten weeks. You own the code, the hosting and the accounts at the end of it.
What this covers
The honest version
Most websites are not slow, insecure or unmaintainable because of a single bad decision. They get that way through twenty small ones: a plugin added to solve a problem nobody revisited, a page builder that generates six nested divs where one would do, a hosting plan chosen on price in 2019 and never looked at again.
The Nexclick builds on whichever platform genuinely fits — there is no house platform we push everyone onto. WordPress is right for a content-heavy site a marketing team edits daily. Shopify is right for most retail. Next.js is right where performance and custom functionality both matter. Laravel is right when the business logic will never fit a CMS. Being told which one suits you, and why, is part of the job.
Two commitments that are worth more than they sound. Everything is set up in your name — domain, hosting, repository, analytics — so leaving is always straightforward. And every build is handed over with documentation, because a site only one agency understands is a site you cannot leave.
Services
All 30 Web Development services
Each one has its own page setting out deliverables, process, timescales and pricing model.
- Custom Website BuildEngineering-led builds: a site made for your business, not adapted from a template.
- WordPress DevelopmentWordPress built properly — no page builder bloat, no plugin sprawl, no mystery updates.
- WordPress Theme DevelopmentA bespoke hand-coded theme, for when the design already exists.
- WooCommerce DevelopmentWooCommerce stores that stay fast as the catalogue and order table grow.
- Shopify DevelopmentShopify themes and custom apps built around how you actually sell.
- Shopify PlusEnterprise Shopify — checkout extensibility, B2B, multi-store and scripts.
- Webflow DevelopmentWebflow builds your marketing team can edit without breaking the layout.
- Headless CMS DevelopmentA fast front end and a back end your team will actually use.
- Next.js & React DevelopmentReact applications that render server-side and score well on Core Web Vitals.
- Laravel DevelopmentLaravel applications and APIs for business logic that will never fit a CMS.
- Node.js DevelopmentNode services, APIs and real-time features.
- Web Application DevelopmentSoftware that happens to run in a browser — not a website with a few forms on it.
- SaaS DevelopmentMulti-tenancy, billing, onboarding and the unglamorous parts nobody quotes for.
- Custom CRM DevelopmentA CRM shaped around your process instead of the other way round.
- Ecommerce DevelopmentOnline stores on the platform that suits your catalogue, margins and team.
- Marketplace DevelopmentMulti-vendor platforms, split payouts, and the moderation nobody plans for.
- Booking SystemsAvailability, deposits, reminders and calendar sync that holds up under load.
- Membership PortalsGated content, subscriptions and member management.
- API Development & IntegrationAPIs built to be consumed, and integrations that survive the other side changing.
- Third-Party IntegrationsConnecting the systems you already pay for so nobody retypes data between them.
- Payment Gateway IntegrationStripe, GoCardless, PayPal and the compliance that comes with them.
- Website RedesignRebuilding without throwing away the rankings and conversions you already have.
- Website MigrationThe move itself: platform, data, DNS and downtime planned rather than discovered.
- Website Speed OptimisationThe engineering fix — bundles, images, caching, hosting and database queries.
- Website Maintenance & SupportUpdates, backups, monitoring, and someone to call when it breaks at 5pm on a Friday.
- Website HostingManaged UK hosting with caching, backups and monitoring already configured.
- Website Security & Malware RemovalCleaning a hacked site and closing whatever let them in the first time.
- Progressive Web AppsInstallable, offline-capable web apps without going near an app store.
- Mobile App DevelopmentBuilding iOS and Android apps, when the web genuinely is not enough.
- Accessibility Remediation (WCAG)Bringing an existing site up to WCAG 2.2 AA, with an audit trail to show for it.
Who this is for
Sound familiar?
- Your site was built five years ago, nobody knows how it works, and every change is quoted as a day.
- The site is slow, and you have been told it is "the hosting" for two years running.
- You need something the CMS was never designed to do — a booking flow, a portal, a calculator, an integration.
- You are moving platform and want it done without losing the rankings and conversions you already have.
- Something has broken, been hacked, or gone down, and you need someone who will actually pick up.
Who it is not for
When to spend elsewhere
- You need a five-page brochure site for under a thousand pounds. A good template on Squarespace will serve you better, and we will say so.
- You want the cheapest possible build. There is always someone cheaper, and the maintenance bill arrives later.
The Nexclick would rather lose the enquiry than take on work that will not produce anything. Saying so on the website costs less than saying it in month four.
Deliverables
What you actually get
Things that appear on an invoice, not qualities.
- Discovery and technical scope
- What the site must do, which integrations it needs, what the content model is, and where the edge cases hide. Written down before anyone designs a screen.
- Design, or implementation of yours
- We design it, or we build faithfully from what your designer produced. Either way you see it before it is coded, not after.
- The build itself
- Clean, commented, version-controlled code on a platform chosen for your situation. No page builder soup, no plugin doing a job forty lines would do better.
- Performance built in from the start
- Core Web Vitals in the green at launch, not retrofitted three months later when the rankings drop. Images, bundles and caching handled as part of the build.
- Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA
- Keyboard operation, contrast, semantic structure and labelled forms as standard. Retrofitting accessibility costs several times what building it in does.
- Tracking and search continuity
- Analytics configured and, on a rebuild, a full redirect map tested on staging. Losing rankings in a replatform is common, avoidable and expensive.
- Handover, documentation and training
- A recorded walkthrough, written documentation, and every credential transferred to you. You should never need us to change a phone number.
Process
How the work runs
Timeframes are typical rather than guaranteed, and they assume we get account access and content approvals when we ask for them.
- 01Week 1–2
Scope
Requirements, content model, integrations and a fixed price against a written specification. Anything outside it is quoted separately before it happens, never absorbed and billed later.
- 02Week 2–4
Design
Wireframes, then designed screens, with a review point at each. Structure gets agreed before anything visual, because reordering a page is cheap and rebuilding one is not.
- 03Week 4–8
Build
Development on a staging environment you can see at any point. Fortnightly demos rather than a reveal at the end.
- 04Week 8–10
Launch and settle
Cross-browser and device testing, redirects verified, then launch with daily monitoring for the first fortnight. Post-launch issues get fixed, not invoiced.
Reporting & ownership
What lands on your desk
- A staging URL from week four, so you are never waiting to see progress.
- Fortnightly demos with a written note of what changed and what is next.
- Full repository access from day one — the code is yours while it is being written, not after.
- Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals figures before launch, in writing.
- A 30-day post-launch period where anything not working as specified is fixed at no charge.
Pricing
Where this starts
from £4,500
A designed and built marketing site, on a CMS you can edit, with tracking configured.
What moves it: Page count, integrations, whether ecommerce is involved, and how much content migration is needed.
Indicative figure
Questions
Web Development questions we get asked
Eight specific to this service area. The general ones — contracts, ownership, timescales — are on the FAQ page.
WordPress, Shopify or a custom build — how do you decide?
By what the site has to do. Content-heavy marketing sites edited daily suit WordPress. Retail suits Shopify unless the catalogue or logic is unusual. Anything where performance and bespoke functionality both matter suits Next.js. If the business logic will never fit a CMS, it is Laravel or Node. The Nexclick has no house platform to sell you.
Will a rebuild damage our search rankings?
It can, and that is the single most common reason traffic collapses after a relaunch. It is also almost entirely preventable. We crawl the existing site before anything changes, build a one-to-one redirect map, test it on staging, and monitor daily for a fortnight after launch. Blanket redirects to the homepage are how equity gets thrown away.
Can we edit the site ourselves afterwards?
Yes, and it is designed for that. Content, images and page structure are editable without touching code, and you get a recorded walkthrough plus written documentation. If a change genuinely needs a developer, we will have told you that during scoping rather than after.
What does ongoing maintenance actually involve?
Core and plugin updates applied and tested rather than auto-applied and hoped for, daily backups held off-site, uptime and security monitoring, and a named person to contact when something breaks. Sites without this do not stay working; they stay working until they suddenly do not.
We already have designs. Will you just build them?
Yes, and it usually saves money. We will raise anything that will not work in practice — a layout that breaks at 320px, a font licence that does not cover web use, a form with no error states designed — but the design decisions remain yours.
How do you handle hosting?
Managed UK or EU hosting with caching, backups and monitoring configured, in your account rather than resold through us. You see the real cost, and if you leave, the hosting simply stays where it is. We will also happily work with hosting you already have, provided it is not the cause of the problem.
What if we need something added after launch?
Quoted against the same specification, or covered under a maintenance retainer if it is small. Because the build is documented and version-controlled, later changes are a known quantity rather than an archaeology exercise — which is precisely why undocumented sites get expensive over time.
Do you take over sites built by someone else?
Yes, and we will give you an honest assessment first. Sometimes the right answer is that remediation costs more than a rebuild, and we would rather tell you that up front than bill six months of patching a site that was never going to be salvageable.
Other service areas
What else we do
Tell us what you are trying to fix
A 20-minute call, no pitch deck. The Nexclick will tell you what we would do, roughly what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it.