Website Development

Websites built for revenue, not for the pitch.

We build Shopify stores, WordPress sites and custom React applications for D2C brands, ecommerce businesses and real estate developers — engineered for speed, search, AI visibility and conversion from the first wireframe.

Shopify Shopify Plus WordPress WooCommerce React Next.js Node.js
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Websites delivered
90+
Core Web Vitals score
SEO & AI
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The problem

Most sites are built for the pitch, not the funnel.

A website is the most expensive page in your funnel to lose people on. Every visitor who reaches it has already been paid for — through media spend, content, or years of brand building. We build the site that still performs six months in: fast on a weak connection, clear about the next action, and instrumented so you can see exactly where people give up.

  • Speed as a spec, not an afterthoughtCore Web Vitals targets are agreed before design starts, not patched after launch.
  • Built on the platform that fitsShopify, WordPress or a custom stack — chosen for your catalogue, team and roadmap, not our convenience.
  • Tracking verified before launchEvery event fires correctly on day one, so week-one data is usable rather than misleading.
  • Structured for search and AI from day oneSemantic HTML and schema markup shipped with the build, not retrofitted by an SEO team later.
Core Web Vitals performance report for a SearchXMedia website build
Who this is for

Three types of business we build for.

Each has a different definition of what a website is supposed to do. We build to that definition, not to a generic template.

D2C Brands

The store is the business. Every 100ms of load time and every extra checkout field is measurable revenue. We build for repeat purchase, not just first order.

Ecommerce

Large catalogues, filtered navigation, feed integrity and marketplace parity. Sites built to stay fast as SKU count grows rather than degrading with it.

Real Estate Developers

Project microsites with a hard launch date. Enquiry capture, floor plans, galleries and CRM routing that gets a lead to sales in minutes, not next morning.

Shopify Development

Shopify stores built to scale past the launch spike.

Shopify is the right choice when the product is the business and speed to market matters. We build custom Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for D2C brands — theme development rather than page-builder assembly, so the store stays fast as your catalogue, traffic and app stack grow.

  • Custom Shopify and Shopify Plus theme development
  • Replatforming from WooCommerce, Magento or custom carts
  • Product, collection and filtered navigation architecture
  • Checkout optimisation and Shop Pay configuration
  • Subscription, loyalty, review and ERP app integration
  • Speed tuning — app audit, image pipeline, lazy loading
  • Technical SEO: canonical handling, structured data, pagination
  • Ongoing maintenance and conversion iteration
Scope a Shopify build
Custom Shopify store built by SearchXMedia shown on desktop and mobile
WordPress corporate website built by SearchXMedia
WordPress Development

WordPress for teams that publish, edit and rank.

WordPress is the right choice when your marketing team needs to move without a developer in the loop. We build corporate sites, property portfolios and content-led businesses on clean custom themes — editable where editing helps, locked where it protects the design system.

  • Custom theme development — no bloated multipurpose templates
  • Corporate, business and property portfolio websites
  • Editorial and blog architecture built for topical authority
  • High-converting landing pages for paid campaigns
  • WooCommerce builds, tuning and migrations
  • Security hardening, backups and uptime monitoring
  • Core Web Vitals optimisation and caching strategy
  • Ongoing maintenance, updates and support retainers
Scope a WordPress build
Custom Development

Custom builds when the platform becomes the ceiling.

A custom stack is the right choice when off-the-shelf platforms start capping what the business can do. We build React and Next.js applications, headless storefronts and internal portals — server-rendered for search visibility, componentised so the codebase stays maintainable as it grows.

  • React.js and Next.js front-end development
  • Node.js and MERN stack application development
  • Headless commerce — Next.js front end on Shopify or a headless CMS
  • Enterprise websites and multi-market architecture
  • Customer portals, dashboards and internal tooling
  • API design, third-party and CRM integration
  • Server-side rendering for full search and AI crawlability
  • Scalable infrastructure, CI/CD and Cloudflare delivery
Scope a custom build
Custom React and Next.js web application built by SearchXMedia
Website features

What ships with every build.

Not upsells. These are the baseline standards every site leaves our studio with.

Core Web Vitals

LCP, INP and CLS targets agreed as a build spec and verified before launch — not diagnosed afterwards.

Mobile-first responsive

Designed at mobile breakpoints first, because that's where most of your traffic and most of your drop-off lives.

Technical SEO

Crawlable architecture, clean heading hierarchy, canonical handling, XML sitemaps and redirect mapping.

Schema markup

Organization, Product, Article, FAQ and Breadcrumb structured data shipped as standard, not as a later add-on.

Analytics & tracking

GA4, GTM, Search Console and Clarity configured and event-tested end to end before the site goes live.

Security & accessibility

Hardened configuration, SSL, automated backups, and WCAG-aligned contrast, focus states and semantics.

AI-ready websites

Built to be cited, not just crawled.

An AI-ready website is one that AI engines can parse, understand and quote. Buyers increasingly get their shortlist from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews before they ever open a search results page. If your site can't be read and cited by those systems, you are invisible at the stage where the decision is actually forming.

  • Semantic HTML and clean hierarchyMachines infer meaning from structure. Div soup gives them nothing to work with.
  • Comprehensive structured dataSchema states explicitly what a page means instead of leaving an engine to guess.
  • Answer-ready content blocksSelf-contained paragraphs that make sense when lifted out of the page — which is exactly how they get quoted.
  • Server-rendered, not JavaScript-lockedContent that only appears after client-side hydration frequently never gets indexed at all.
See SEO, AEO & GEO
A SearchXMedia-built website cited in an AI search answer
SEO
Ranked in classic organic results
AEO & GEO
Structured to be cited by AI answer engines
How we approach it

Four steps, not a black box.

You see working output at every stage — no six-week silence followed by a reveal.

Step 01

Audit & architect

We map the current funnel, flag the drop-off points, and plan information architecture around what converts.

Step 02

Design

Designed in your brand system at mobile and desktop breakpoints, reviewed against the speed spec before a line of code is written.

Step 03

Build

Development on the chosen platform with staged previews, so you review real pages rather than flat mockups.

Step 04

Launch & verify

Redirects, tracking and Core Web Vitals checked end to end before the old site comes down — no gap in your data.

Frequently asked

Website development questions, answered plainly.

Including the ones where the honest answer is "you probably don't need this".

A marketing or brochure site typically takes four to six weeks. A Shopify or WordPress store with a real product catalogue runs six to ten weeks depending on integrations. Custom React or Next.js builds usually take ten to sixteen weeks. We give a fixed timeline after the scoping call, not before.

Shopify suits product-led ecommerce that needs to ship fast and scale checkout reliably. WordPress suits content-heavy corporate and property sites where a marketing team edits pages daily. A custom React or Next.js stack suits portals, dashboards, complex catalogues and anything needing headless architecture. We recommend based on your catalogue, team and roadmap — not on what we prefer to build.

Not if the migration is done properly. We map every existing URL, implement 301 redirects, preserve metadata and internal linking, and keep the old site crawlable until the new one is verified. Rankings usually recover within two to four weeks, and often improve because the technical foundation is stronger.

It means the site is structured so that AI engines can parse, understand and cite it. In practice: semantic HTML, comprehensive schema markup, self-contained answer-ready paragraphs, clean heading hierarchy, fast server-rendered pages, and crawlable content that is not locked behind client-side JavaScript.

Yes. We handle Shopify Plus builds, replatforming from WooCommerce, Magento or custom carts, theme development, checkout extensibility, and post-migration SEO recovery.

Core Web Vitals measure loading performance, interactivity and visual stability — LCP, INP and CLS. They matter commercially because slow pages lose buyers before the page finishes rendering. We set Core Web Vitals targets as a build spec before design starts rather than fixing them after launch.

Every build includes a 30-day post-launch support window. Beyond that we offer ongoing maintenance retainers covering security updates, plugin and theme management, uptime monitoring, backups, performance monitoring and incremental conversion improvements.

You do. Hosting, domain, repository, CMS and analytics are all registered in your name. You keep full access during the engagement and after it ends. There is no proprietary page builder locking you to us.

Yes. We build inside your existing design system and brand tokens rather than replacing them, unless a rebrand is explicitly part of the scope.

Cost depends on scope, page count, integrations and platform. A focused marketing site sits at the lower end, a Shopify store with custom functionality in the middle, and a headless or custom application at the top. We quote a fixed price after scoping rather than quoting a range before understanding the requirement.

Yes. Project microsites, portfolio sites and developer websites are a core part of our work, including enquiry capture, site-visit booking flows, floor-plan and gallery presentation, and CRM routing so leads reach sales within minutes.

Yes. Headless architecture — a decoupled front end on React or Next.js with a headless CMS or Shopify backend — suits brands that need extreme performance, multi-market content, or a single content source feeding web and app. We recommend it when the complexity is justified, not by default.

Every build is designed mobile-first and tested across phone, tablet and desktop breakpoints. For most D2C and real estate clients the majority of traffic is mobile, so mobile performance is treated as the primary spec rather than an adaptation.

Yes, and we verify it before launch. GA4, Google Tag Manager, Search Console, Microsoft Clarity and ecommerce or lead events are configured and tested end to end so week-one data is trustworthy.

Schema markup is structured data that tells search and AI engines what each page means rather than making them infer it. It powers rich results and materially improves the odds of being cited by AI answer engines. We implement it on every build as standard.

Often, yes — and we will say so if that is the better commercial decision. If the foundation is sound, a performance and conversion programme costs far less than a rebuild. We only recommend rebuilding when the existing platform genuinely caps growth.

By designing around the funnel rather than the homepage: clear next actions on every template, reduced form and checkout friction, fast perceived load, trust signals placed where hesitation occurs, and instrumentation that shows exactly where visitors abandon.

Yes. WooCommerce suits brands already invested in WordPress that want commerce without leaving their content stack. We handle builds, performance tuning, and migrations both to and from WooCommerce.

The 30-day post-launch window covers defects at no cost. On a maintenance retainer, critical issues are treated as priority with same-business-day response. Every site ships with backups and a rollback path.

We can. Many clients supply their own copy and we structure it for search and conversion. Where copy is needed, our content team writes it against keyword and intent research rather than filling a template.

Request a free website audit using the form on this page. We review your current site's performance, technical SEO and conversion path, then send a written summary of what we would fix first — whether or not you go on to work with us.