Website Development
A website that answers buyers before they ask your sales team.
We design and build marketing websites for companies whose site has fallen behind the business. Every page is planned around what a visitor needs to see to trust you and get in touch, then built to load quickly on the phone in their hand.
What usually goes wrong
Visitors cannot tell what you do from the first screen.
Buyers decide within seconds whether a site is worth their time. If the first screen talks about passion and innovation instead of what you sell and who it is for, they leave before the good part.
The contact step asks for too much, too early.
Long forms, hidden phone numbers and demo buttons that lead nowhere quietly cost more leads than an unfashionable design ever will.
It looks fine on a laptop and struggles on a phone.
Heavy sliders, oversized images and jumping layouts make mobile visits slow and frustrating, and a phone is often where buyers meet you first.
How we approach it
We plan the path from first visit to first message, then build it.
Before any visual design, we map the questions a buyer brings to your site: what you do, whether it fits their situation, what working with you involves, and why they should trust you over the alternative. Each page gets a job, and the structure follows from those jobs.
Then we build with plain, durable technology: semantic HTML, a lean amount of JavaScript, properly sized images and self-hosted fonts. That keeps the site fast on real mobile connections, easy for search engines to read and inexpensive to host. We aim for Core Web Vitals in the good range and test on throttled connections, not only on office Wi-Fi.
You choose how you want to edit content. That might be WordPress, a headless CMS or a lightweight PHP setup like the one behind this website. We recommend an option once we know who will update the site and how often.
What you get
- Content structure and sitemap
- A page by page plan of what each page needs to say and where it leads, agreed before design starts.
- Responsive design
- Designed for phones first and refined for tablets and large screens, with a clickable prototype you can review.
- Production build
- Clean, documented code that meets WCAG 2.2 AA as a baseline, with forms that actually deliver to your inbox.
- Technical SEO foundations
- Titles, descriptions, structured data, an XML sitemap, redirects from old URLs and readable addresses.
- Analytics and goals
- Tracking for the actions that matter, such as enquiries, calls and bookings, with consent handling where your market requires it.
- Launch and 30 days of aftercare
- We move the site live, watch it closely and fix anything that surfaces in the first 30 days at no extra cost.
A good fit if
- Your current site no longer reflects what the company does or who it sells to.
- You get traffic but too few enquiries, or the wrong kind.
- You are entering a new market and need a site that works in more than one language.
- You want to own the code and content, without being tied to us.
Probably not the right fit if
- You need a simple one page site live by next week.
- You want a template filled in as cheaply as possible. Template builders do that job well, and we would tell you so.
Tools we use
- HTML5
- Tailwind CSS
- PHP 8
- JavaScript
- WordPress
- Headless CMS
- Cloudflare
- Lighthouse
How the project runs
A typical marketing website takes 5 to 9 weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on the number of page types and how ready the content is.
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Diagnose
Week 1
We review your current site, analytics and competitors, and talk to whoever handles your enquiries. You receive a written diagnosis of where leads are being lost. We need about an hour of your time and access to your analytics.
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Architect
Weeks 2 to 3
Sitemap, content plan and technical architecture. You receive a full site plan and a fixed quote. Design only starts once you have signed off.
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Design
Weeks 3 to 5
High-fidelity design for every page type and screen size. You receive a clickable prototype, and we ask for two rounds of feedback, each within 48 hours.
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Build
Weeks 5 to 9
Development, content entry and testing across devices. You follow progress on a live staging link the whole way, not only at the end.
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Launch and grow
Ongoing
Go-live, monitoring and 30 days of aftercare at no extra cost. Everything we built is yours. If you want to keep improving it, we continue on a monthly plan you can pause or cancel.
Questions buyers ask
How much does a website cost?
It depends on the number of page templates, the content work involved and any integrations. We do not sell fixed packages. After a short call and a written diagnosis, you get a fixed quote for the agreed scope before you commit to anything.
Do you write the copy?
We can. Some clients write a first draft and we shape it, others hand the whole job to us. Either way, we plan content before design, because a layout built around placeholder text rarely survives the real words.
Will we be able to update the site ourselves?
Yes. We set up an editing experience that suits the people who will use it, and we record a short walkthrough so new colleagues can learn it later.
Can you build the site in more than one language?
Yes. We build multilingual sites with proper language URLs and hreflang annotations, so each version can rank in its own market. This website runs in English and Danish the same way.
Who owns the website when it is finished?
You do. Code, design files and content are yours once the final invoice is paid, with no licence fees to us.
Tell us what your current site is not doing.
A short call, a clear diagnosis, and a fixed quote if you want to go ahead.
Email us: mahnovasdigital@gmail.com