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Front-end development services

Front-end development, built by hand

Sometimes you don't need a new website. You need someone to fix the four things wrong with the one you have.

What this actually is

This is the service for that. Hourly front-end work on a site you already own — page speed, mobile layout, accessibility, a form that doesn't submit on iPhone, a landing page that needs building this week.

We write it by hand. No page builder, no plugin stack, no theme that loads two megabytes of JavaScript to display a heading. That's not purism, it's the reason the result is fast. Most of the performance problems we're asked to fix were installed by the tool that was supposed to make building easier.

Everything we build gets instrumented as we go, so the analytics side of this category has something real to read. A button we add is a button you can measure.

What it covers

01

Hand-written code

HTML, CSS and JavaScript written directly rather than generated by a builder. This is the reason the result is fast: most of the performance problems we're hired to fix were installed by the tool that was meant to make building easier.

02

Performance work

Core Web Vitals measured before and after, with the actual cause identified rather than guessed at. Usually it's images, render-blocking scripts, or a font loading strategy nobody chose deliberately.

03

Responsive and device testing

Tested at real viewport sizes on real devices, including the small Android screens that a lot of Indian traffic actually arrives on. A layout that only works on the designer's laptop isn't finished.

04

Accessibility

Keyboard navigation, focus states, colour contrast, screen reader semantics and proper form labels. It's also the same work that makes a site legible to search engines, so it pays for itself twice.

05

Landing pages

Single pages built quickly for a campaign, matched to the ad that sends people there. This is the most common reason clients use us hourly.

06

Instrumentation

Anything interactive we build gets its tracking wired in as it's built, so the analytics have something real to measure instead of being retrofitted six months later.

What you get

  1. 01Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  2. 02Responsive down to small phones, tested on real viewport sizes
  3. 03Accessibility handled properly — keyboard, contrast, screen readers
  4. 04Core Web Vitals measured before and after
  5. 05Tracking wired into anything interactive we build
  6. 06Code that your next developer can read

How it runs

  1. Step 1

    Scope

    You tell us what's wrong or what you need. We estimate the hours before starting.

  2. Step 2

    Build

    We work in agreed blocks and show you progress on a staging link.

  3. Step 3

    Hand over

    Code, documentation and a before-and-after on performance.

What it costs

How it's pricedHourly

Billed in blocks, with a ten-hour minimum so neither of us spends more time on admin than on the work. We estimate before starting and tell you before we'd exceed it.

We don't publish a number for this one, because an honest one depends on the job. Tell us what you're trying to do and you'll get a real figure, in writing, without a sales call first.

Get a figure in writing

Is this right for you?

Probably, if

  • You have a site and need specific things changed or added
  • Your site is slow and you want to know why
  • You need a landing page quickly without rebuilding anything

Probably not, if

  • You need a whole new website. That's a project, not an hourly job, and it's cheaper for you as a project.

Questions we get asked

Can you work on my WordPress site?

Usually, yes — theme and template work, performance, custom blocks. If the problem is a plugin conflict three layers deep, we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth the hours.

What's the minimum?

Ten hours. Below that the estimating and setup cost more than the work.

Will I be able to edit it afterwards?

Depends what we build. We'll tell you up front which parts are editable by you and which need a developer, before we start rather than after.

Tell us what you're trying to do

No pitch deck, no discovery call you have to sit through. Describe the problem and we'll tell you whether this is the right service for it — including when it isn't.

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