BESPOKE WEB DESIGN COMPANY
Building a website today isn’t about picking a theme and bolting on a few plugins its about creating a digital presence that is your best lead generator, your best sales person and its about being the primary interface between you and your customers.
At Ronins, we have spent years designing and building websites and platforms from our London and Surrey offices and found that different businesses demand different approaches, some want the speed and flexibility of Webflow, Framer or WordPress for marketing sites, whilst others need the enterprise strength of Sitefinity or the robustness of a custom build or the power of Shopify and Woocommerce to run their online stores.
WEB DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
What Success Looks Like
Success is about how clearly the new site tells your story, how many people it brings through the door, and how confidently your team can use it to win work.
Problems We Solve
Often clients to come to us because their site ranks lower in the engines each month, or they have enough traffic but are not generating any leads or sales.
We optimise
Post launch is when we get to see how people use it, where they come in, where they go, what they avoid and where they drop off. Each insight follows an update which gets your closer to your business goals.
The Work That Speaks for Us
INVICTUS GAMES
A case-for-support site built to drive real backing
ORBUS SOFTWARE
Helping a market leader shape their clients’ digital futures
CLEARSTONE ENERGY
A web platform built for growth
OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
What We Build
Marketing websites: We design and build sites that tell your brand story clearly, builds trust with your users, and turns attention into action.
E-commerce platforms: For some people this is Shopify and others its WooCommerce or something custom, we focus engaging user experiences, high search rankings and great conversion rates.
Enterprise & CMS platforms: For those times when content at scale meets governance, security and integrations. Sitefinity gives larger organisations full control of their brand and content whilst maintaining compliance.
Custom applications: We design and develop platforms like SaaS products, client portals and tools that integrate into your internal systems.
Modern front ends: Headless content management systems, Webflow and other modern technologies give you more creative freedom with potentially more security and faster page load times.
OUR AGENCY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
How We Deliver It
Discovery: We start with questions. like what does the site need to do? who are your target audience? why should they care? and what are the current blockers, we call this our discovery phase.
Front-end engineering: Our user interfaces are built to feel invisible., everything is responsive, accessible, and designed to work across a range of devices and browsers whilst providing an engaging user experience.
Back-end development: The back end has to be resilient or like a house of cards everything topples over, We optimise CMS’s like WordPress for minificaton and caching and for custom application we rely on servers less infrastructure.
Performance & security: We benchmark our sites against Google own Core Web Vitals, we run load tests and harden security to the OWASP Top 10 guidelines.
DevOps & workflows: CI/CD pipelines, staging environments and containerisation mean every release is predictable and traceable and Automation is used wherever we can reduces risk by removing human error.
Lifecycle support: We have a range of support packages from patching and updates to retainers for SEO, CRO and digital marketing.
WHY WE BUILD DIFFERENTLY, AND WHY IT WORKS.
Our Point of View
A website should bring in leads, convert traffic, build trust and make it easier for your team to sell. This is the lens we live by adn build to, part brand, part technology and always about the results
We treat every site like infrastructure for growth, we create engaging user experiences that draws people in, turns desire into action and content that builds confidence in every sign up, every sale and every lead.
Because when it’s built right, a website becomes more than a marketing tool it becomes the engine room of the business. It pulls in new users, it feeds your sales funnel, it becomes the space where your brand story, your product and your customer all meet together.
FAQs
Questions were asked before we are hired
How do you scope a web build?
All our projects start with a discovery phase where we ask questions, lots and lots of questions about who you are, what you do, what you want to achieve, who are your users, why should they care about your project or service and what are your business objectives. We roll this up with the websites key functions and features and any system integrations into a clear roadmap with costs and timelines.
What results should we expect?
This depends on a lot of things, we can expect that the website will have a responsive design, have intuitive user journeys and tell a clear brand story designed to convert. Outside of that we can expect higher rankings and more traffic if we are providing search engine optimisation services, we can expect more traffic from any digital marketing activity and more conversion through our CRO service.
How long will it take to build?
There a many factors that go into creating a new website such as how large is it, what content needs rewriting, what complex integrations are needed and what does the design look like. There are however patterns that have seen over the years. a small brochure website can take around 4 weeks a medium sized site and can 3-5 months and a large enterprise with with bespoke solutions can run from 8 months to a year or more.
Do you only build websites?
Not at all, we also design and develop web apps, internal tools, mobile apps and ai enabled applications. Our backgrounds are in software development and digital marketing which means we can build digital products that connect every part of your business an ensure its seen by as many visitors as possible.
What makes you different from other agencies?
We are founders ourselves and know what it is like to spend our own money, we don’t work off timesheets and finish when the job is done. We have the strength of depth of a large multi national group network with the care of a boutique and really care about the results our work gives you over chasing an award for one of the best web development companies in the UK. We have highly skilled strategist, UX designers and specialists in SEO and CRO and digital marketing so once your new website is launched we can help you gain traction.
Can you work with our in-house team?
Yes we do this all the time, most clients have their own marketing team and need an agency to bring their website refresh to life before taking it back in house. Some clients have their own web developers or designers whilst others have an IT lead who just needs an extra pair of hands whether its UX, CRO, or full web design and development we have the teams to help just as any trusted partner would.
How much will it cost?
This really depends on what we’re building and how complex the integrations are. Over the years we have found that there are pattens A simple brochure site is at one end could be under 10k a medium sized site is around 25-30k and a larger platform with bespoke additional features or complex integrations can easily be 60k and above
How do you choose the right tech?
We handle this in our discovery phase, where we get to understand the projects requirements and also with what content management systems you have used before. Sometimes we recommend WordPress as everybody has used it and there is a wide talent pool of developers should you wish to bring it in-house, other times it’s something new like Webflow or Framer where we can train you on how to use it.
Can you help us stand out online?
Yes that’s exactly what most clients hire us for, we look at where you currently sit in the digital landscape and work out how people currently find you, where in search engines you are and what marketing do you already do. Sometimes all we need is better brand visibility in the search engines through SEO other times it’s about working with the digital PR team to get you mentions in the media. whatever it takes you ensure you see business growth.
Do you work with start-ups?
Yes we have worked with quite a few. and some our best creativity has come from start ups. We can create new and exciting brand identities, we can push the boundaries of user experiences as well as invent new business models and disrupt legacy industries. If you are a startup please get in touch we would love to help you.
Can you refresh our current site?
Yes of course, we dont get to see many clients these days looking for their first website. We’ll audit the codebase, UX, content and seo effectiveness before making that choice. Sometimes we can build on whats there by designing new components to sit in your library and other times it’s a re-platform. Either way we explain the pros and cons with you before we decide together on the most appropriate route forward.
What’s it like working with you?
You will have to ask our clients that one, but we like to think that we are consultative, collaborative and creative. We work closely with each client to understand them, their business. You will deal directly with our strategists, designers, developers and digital marketers. We care about the impact of our work and its quality and we hope this is an enjoyable experience but we are open to honest feedback.
OUR DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS
WordPress
We use it more than anything else, it’s reliable, flexible and easy for most teams to pick up. You can get content live quickly and make it attractive to the search engines easily too.
WordPress AgencyWebflow
Its great when you need to move quickly, its very visual and flexible to edit, you can deploy with easily and it comes with its own content delivery networks for faster page load times.
Webflow AgencySitefinity
This really shines for the larger organisations with lots of content and require strict content governance around it. It handles permissions, translations, workflows and API integrations to third party platform well.
Sitefinity AgencySitecore
For when you really need to scale, its great at personalisation, handling lots of users at once and supports global rollouts easily.
Shopify
Still the king when you want to sell online, it fully loaded with features tout of the box that you dont need to develop, for most clients we just apply their branding and give them some training and they are away.
Shopify Development AgencyWooCommerce
This is great when you already have a WordPress ecosystem and we can bolt this on. You get the familiar WordPress interface with the flexibility of Shopify.
WooCommerce AgencyBrands We’ve Built For
