Business sites, online stores and web applications. Most of what a business needs here is simpler and cheaper than it has been told — and we will say so before you spend the money, not after.
In rough order of how often a business actually needs them.
Five to fifteen pages that answer the questions a stranger has: who you are, what you sell, whether you are real, and how to reach you. For most businesses this is the entire requirement, and everything else on this page is a distraction from it.
Built in WordPress unless there is a reason not to be. The reason is usually that the site needs logins or calculations — at which point it is not a website at all, and belongs under app development.
Three systems that already exist, already work, and already have thousands of people who know them. Almost every business website and online shop should be built on one of these rather than written from nothing — and the only real question is which.
WordPress lets you change your own pages without a developer. You log in, edit the text, swap a photograph, add a page, and it is live. It runs a very large share of the world's business websites, which means it is well understood and easy to find people to work on.
That last point is the one worth caring about. A site written from scratch ties you to whoever wrote it. A WordPress site can be picked up by any competent developer in any city — including when that developer is not us.
A catalogue, a cart, payments, delivery charges, and stock that goes down when something sells. Building a shopping cart from nothing is a solved problem, and we do not charge anybody to solve it again.
| Shopify | WooCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A shop you rent, monthly | A shop you own, added to WordPress |
| Hosting and security | Handled for you | Yours to arrange |
| Ongoing cost | Monthly fee, always | Hosting, plus what you choose to add |
| Speed to open | Fastest | Slower, more setup |
| How far you can bend it | Far, within their rules | Anywhere — it is your code |
| If you already have WordPress | A second, separate system | Same site, same login |
Shopify if you want to be selling in weeks and never think about servers. WooCommerce if you already run WordPress, or would rather own the whole thing than rent it. Both are honest answers — the wrong one is being sold a custom-built cart. And whichever you pick, it needs keeping up to date.
If people will log in, it is not a website. The moment there are accounts, roles, records or something being calculated, you are past this page and into software — different work, different price, and it is covered properly under app development.
A website is not a thing you finish. Software underneath it gets updated, security holes get found and patched, backups need taking, and occasionally something breaks at an inconvenient hour.
An unmaintained WordPress site is the most common way a small business gets hacked. If nobody is doing this, it is not being done.
Some of these get quoted as upgrades elsewhere. They are not upgrades. A site without them is not finished.
| Mobile | Every page laid out for a phone, not shrunk to fit one |
|---|---|
| Search engines | Titles, descriptions and page structure set up so your pages can be indexed and understood |
| Speed | Images sized properly and pages kept light — assume a slow connection |
| Contact | A form that reaches you, plus WhatsApp for people who will not fill in forms |
| Secure connection | HTTPS, so browsers do not warn your visitors away |
| Handover | You are shown how to edit your own site before we call it finished |
| Languages | English and Urdu |
On WordPress, yes — text, photos, prices and new pages. That is the main reason we recommend it for business websites. On a custom-coded site you would be ringing a developer for every change, which is a cost that never appears in the original quote.
A website is pages you read. A web application is something you use — people log in, have different permissions, create records and get things calculated for them. The moment logins and roles appear, it stops being a website.
Shopify if you want to be selling in weeks and never think about servers again, and you accept a monthly fee. WooCommerce if you already have a WordPress site, or you want to own the whole thing outright and pay for hosting instead.
No. Describe what your business does and what you want to happen, and choosing between WordPress, Shopify and custom code is our job. If we ever answer you in jargon, ask us to say it again in plain words.
Usually, provided you have the hosting and domain logins. WordPress and Shopify sites are the most straightforward to inherit. A custom-coded site depends on how it was written and whether anything was documented.
Fifteen minutes on a call, no charge. You will leave knowing what it should be built in — whether or not you build it with us.