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Senior web & app development · 20 capabilities
oakstone.digital
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Websites & commerce
with less translation.

Sites and storefronts that make the complex feel inevitable — and make buying the obvious next step.

The remit

What this division
is accountable for.

  • A site that argues rather than describes
  • Rankings protected through migration
  • Core Web Vitals in the green on real devices
  • A marketing team that can publish without engineering

A website is the only part of your business that talks to every prospect, every candidate and every journalist, usually without supervision. It is worth building deliberately.

This division covers everything from a marketing site that has to earn conviction to a storefront processing thousands of orders a week. The common thread is that we start with the decision the visitor is trying to make, then design the structure, the argument and the technology to serve it.

Seven capabilities sit here, and most engagements use two or three of them together: a rebuild with a platform migration, or a storefront with payments and subscription logic.

How this is bought

Three engagement
shapes.

Most clients start with the first and decide about the others once there is evidence on the table.

01

Diagnostic sprint

2 weeks, fixed price

Analytics, search performance, funnel drop-off and a technical audit read together, ending in a written recommendation with a cost range per option. Roughly a third of these conclude that a rebuild is the wrong project.

02

Build or rebuild

6–14 weeks, staged

A component system, content model and technical SEO baseline delivered template by template in priority order, so the highest-value pages are live before the long tail is finished.

03

Growth retainer

Ongoing, monthly

Continuous improvement against the metrics we baselined: new templates, conversion work, content structure and the small changes that otherwise wait a year for a project.

How the work runs

Four stages, visible throughout.

01

Diagnose

Analytics, search data, sales conversations and a technical audit read together, so the brief is based on evidence rather than opinion.

02

Structure

Message hierarchy, page architecture and URL plan agreed before design starts — the decisions that are expensive to change later.

03

Build

A component system engineered by seniors, with technical SEO, accessibility and performance handled as we go rather than bolted on.

04

Prove

Staged launch, redirect and coverage monitoring, and conversion measured against the baseline we took before starting.

A good fit when
  • Your site explains the business accurately and persuades nobody
  • Publishing anything requires a developer and a fortnight
  • A storefront has outgrown the navigation and platform it launched with
  • You are replatforming and cannot afford to lose earned rankings
Probably not us if
  • You want brand identity, naming or logo design created from scratch
  • You need paid media buying or an SEO content retainer
  • The real constraint is the offer rather than how it is presented

We would rather point you to a specialist in the first conversation than sell you our second-best skill.

Questions we get asked

Websites & commerce, answered.

A focused B2B marketing site typically runs from the mid five figures; commerce builds and migrations from around double that. We quote per stage after the diagnostic, because a number produced before anyone has read your analytics is a guess dressed as a proposal.

Whichever matches who owns the site afterwards. Content-led sites with a publishing team go to WordPress or a headless CMS; product-led sites with real logic go custom; storefronts go to Shopify unless something specific rules it out. The recommendation is written down with its trade-offs.

With planning, yes. We benchmark rankings and indexed pages first, map every URL to a destination, preserve heading and metadata equity where it has earned its place, and monitor Search Console daily for the first fortnight after launch.

Usually — most engagements extend an existing identity into a digital design system rather than replacing it. Where the brand is genuinely holding the business back we will say so and scope that conversation separately.

A better brief starts here

Bring us a websites & commerce problem.

Bring us the hard thing. We will bring a point of view, a senior team and a clear next step.

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