Web Design
Secure Web Design
We build fast, accessible, professionally-designed websites on a custom, security-first platform — not an off-the-shelf CMS. Every site ships with hardened authentication, sensible defaults, and the kind of logging and monitoring most agencies bolt on as an afterthought (if at all).
See it live Talk to usCustom-built, not assembled from plugins
Many websites are stacks of third-party plugins glued together — each one a moving part you don't control and an attacker does. We build on our own platform, so there is no plugin sprawl, no abandoned add-ons, and no surprise code running on your site.
- Lean, purpose-built code — only what your site actually needs
- No third-party plugin/theme supply chain to compromise
- You own the result — clear, maintainable, documented
Why we don't build on WordPress
WordPress powers a huge share of the web — which is exactly why it is the single most-targeted platform online. The core is reasonable; the risk lives in the thousands of plugins and themes bolted on top, plus relentless automated attacks against every WordPress login page on the internet.
Plugin & theme vulnerabilities
The large majority of WordPress compromises trace back to a vulnerable or outdated plugin or theme — code you didn't write and can't fully vet.
Constant brute-force
Public, predictable login pages are hammered around the clock by bots guessing passwords. Our platform gates this with rate-limiting, MFA, and passkeys by default.
Supply-chain risk
A single compromised plugin update can push malicious code to thousands of sites at once. With no third-party plugin chain, that whole class of attack simply doesn't apply.
Security by design
Security isn't a paid add-on — it's how the platform is built. The OWASP Top 10 is the baseline, not the goal.
- Hardened authentication: multi-factor, passkeys (WebAuthn), and single sign-on
- OWASP Top 10 controls by default — parameterised queries, output encoding, CSRF tokens
- Strict Content-Security-Policy and modern security headers
- Isolated per-site databases and credential separation — a breach can't roam sideways
Logging & monitoring built in
You can't defend what you can't see. Every site we run records what happens and watches for trouble, so an incident is something we catch — not something a customer reports to you weeks later.
- Full audit logging of administrative and account activity
- A live security event bus with alerting rules
- File-integrity monitoring — we know if a file changes that shouldn't
- Anomaly and data-exfiltration detection on unusual query volume
Fast, accessible, and found
A secure site still has to perform. We build for speed, accessibility (WCAG), and search visibility, with clean semantic markup, structured data, and sensible SEO defaults on every page.
See exactly what we'd build for you
Our public showcase is a real, fully-featured site running on the same platform — bookings, accounts, articles, memberships, the lot. Take it for a spin, then let's talk about yours.