One week for an essential site, two weeks for a complete multi-service build with CRM intake, three to four weeks for ecommerce, membership or multilingual projects. Recent sites shipped in two and four days where scope was tightly defined up front. Timeline depends far more on how quickly your content and approvals come back than on the build itself.

Custom design on every project. Your site is designed around your brand, your colours and your content, and you approve the design before development begins. I do not sell a marketplace theme with the demo content swapped for yours. Where a solid framework speeds the build without limiting the design, I will use one and tell you exactly what that means.

Yes, with WooCommerce — products and variations, payment gateways, shipping rules, tax, coupons, customer accounts and abandoned-cart recovery. WooCommerce makes sense when you want everything on one platform and full control over the code. Shopify is usually better for a catalogue-first business that wants less to maintain. I will tell you honestly which fits your situation, including when that answer is Shopify.

All three. Bookings with calendar availability, deposits, reminders and staff assignment. Memberships with gated content, subscription billing and course delivery. Multilingual as full indexable language versions with correct hreflang, not a translation widget that Google ignores. Each adds build time, which is why they sit in the Advanced tier rather than being quietly added later.

Yes, and this is deliberate. You get written documentation, recorded walkthroughs and a live training session. Changing text, swapping an image, adding a page, publishing a blog post or updating your phone number should never require a developer. A site only the agency can edit is a business model, not a technical necessity.

Both are options and the answer depends on what is underneath. If the content is sound and the problem is speed and structure, a rebuild on the same URLs preserves your rankings and costs less. If the site is built on something unmaintainable, starting fresh with a full redirect map is cleaner. I will look at your site before the call and tell you which, honestly, even when starting over would be the bigger project for me.

Almost always three things in combination. Too many plugins, each loading its own scripts and styles on every page whether needed or not. Images uploaded at full camera resolution and scaled down by the browser. And a page builder shipping CSS for every element it supports rather than the ones you use. Cheap shared hosting makes all three worse. A plugin audit and an image pipeline usually fix most of it without a full rebuild.

The build gives you everything within a developer's control: a page per service, clean heading structure, schema markup, internal linking, fast Core Web Vitals and local signals. What it cannot do is guarantee position one, because rankings also depend on your competition, your domain history and the content you publish afterwards. Anyone guaranteeing a specific ranking is either uninformed or dishonest.

Hosting is set up for you but bought in your own name, because owning a client's hosting is leverage rather than a service. Every build ships with SSL, hardened login, automatic backups and a properly configured security plugin. Thirty days of post-launch care are included. Ongoing monthly maintenance covering updates, backups and monitoring is available afterwards but never required.