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Custom-coded websites

Custom-coded websites, built from scratch for your business.

No templates, no page builders and no stack of plugins holding it together. Every Cribbar site is designed and hand-built around your business, which is why it loads fast, gives search engines a clean structure to read, and stays secure with very little to maintain.

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What you are actually getting

Built from scratch, not assembled from a template.

Most small business websites start life as a theme with a logo dropped in, or a page builder carrying code for features it will never use. A custom-coded site is written for your business alone, with only the code it needs.

A template or page builder

Quick to start, harder to live with
  • The same theme is running on thousands of other websites
  • Code for every feature the builder offers loads on every page, used or not
  • Plugins need constant updates and are a common way in for attackers
  • Your design stops wherever the theme's options stop
  • Often tied to a platform subscription that is hard to leave

A custom-coded Cribbar site

Built around you, built to last
  • Designed around your business and nobody else's
  • Only the code the site needs, so pages stay fast
  • No plugin stack to patch, so far less can go wrong
  • Any layout and any feature, with no theme holding you back
  • Clean, portable code that is not locked to one builder

Why it matters

What custom-coded does for your business.

The difference is not cosmetic. It shows up in how many visitors stay, how search engines read your site, and how much time you spend fixing things.

Fast on every device

Lean code loads quickly, even on a phone on mobile data. Speed shapes how many visitors stay long enough to get in touch, and it is part of how Google assesses a page.

Strong foundations for search

Clean structure, proper headings, structured data and fast load times are built in from the first line of code, rather than bolted on later with a plugin.

Secure by design

With no plugin stack or page builder layer underneath, there is far less for attackers to exploit and nothing that needs patching every week.

Designed around you

Every layout is drawn for your customers and your offer, not a theme stretched to fit. It looks like your business because it was built for it.

Very little to maintain

No plugin updates breaking a layout overnight and no builder upgrades to test. Small changes are simply handled by us.

Room to grow

New pages, features and integrations are added directly in code, so the site grows with your business instead of fighting a theme.

Standards

What we will not do.

Custom-coded only means something if the standards behind it hold. Here are ours.

We do not use templates or themesEvery layout is designed for your business, not adapted from one built for somebody else.
We do not stack up pluginsIf a feature needs a few lines of code, it gets a few lines of code, not another plugin to update and secure.
We do not ship a site that struggles on mobileEvery page is built mobile first and tested on real phones for speed and usability before launch.
We do not publish anything uncheckedEvery page, every line of code and every word is reviewed properly before it reaches you.

The process

Thinking first. Building second.

The order matters. Most of the decisions that determine how a site performs are made before anything is designed.

Before we design anything

Where the outcome is decided
  • A proper conversation about the business, the customers and what a good month looks like
  • What the site has to achieve, and how we will know whether it has
  • The page structure and the path from landing to enquiry, agreed before a pixel moves
  • What you are up against locally, and where the gap is

Then we build it

Where the time is saved
  • Design direction and layout, decided by us and reviewed with you
  • Construction, tested on real devices rather than a browser window
  • Performance, accessibility and search set-up checked before launch
  • Launch, indexing, and support from the person who built it

Prefer to self-edit?

Custom-coded or WordPress?

We build both, so we will always point you to whichever genuinely fits your business, not whichever is easier for us.

Custom-coded site

Fastest, most bespoke
  • The fastest possible loading and top performance scores
  • Pixel-perfect, completely bespoke design
  • Rock-solid security with almost nothing to maintain
  • Best when you are happy for us to handle content changes

WordPress site

Best for editing it yourself
  • You add pages, posts and products yourself, any time
  • Ideal for blogs, shops and content that changes often
  • A huge ecosystem of tools and integrations
  • Best when independence and self-editing matter most

Want the full picture first? See exactly how we build WordPress sites →, or explore WordPress builds.

How we keep it affordable

Custom-coded, without the custom-coded price tag.

Custom builds have traditionally been the expensive option, because writing a site from scratch took far longer than dropping content into a theme.

We use AI tools, and we use them properly. They take on the repetitive production work every build needs, which speeds the build up and brings the cost down for you. They do not design your site, choose its structure or write what goes live. Every decision, every line that ships and every word on the page is ours, and nothing reaches you without a proper review.

Live sooner

Less time on repetitive production means your site is designed, built and launched in a fraction of the traditional timescale.

Lower cost

You pay for design, strategy and craft rather than hours of manual assembly, so it costs less than a comparable WordPress build.

Nothing cut

Still hand-finished, still fully bespoke, still built to the same standard. The saving comes out of the process, never the quality.

Straight answers

The questions people actually ask.

It means your website is written from scratch in clean HTML, CSS and JavaScript and designed specifically for your business, rather than built on a theme, a template or a drag-and-drop page builder. Only the code your site needs is included, which is what keeps it fast and secure.
Traditionally, yes. Ours come in below a comparable WordPress build, because our process strips out the slow, repetitive production work and puts your budget into design, structure and content instead.
Small changes are handled by us, so you never need to touch any code. If you want to add pages, posts or products yourself on a regular basis, a WordPress site is usually the better fit, and we build those too.
Yes. Every site is built mobile first and tested on real devices rather than just resized in a browser window, so it loads quickly and reads properly on any screen.
It gives you strong foundations: fast loading, clean code, a sensible page structure and structured data from the start. Rankings also depend on your content, your competition and ongoing work, so no website can guarantee a position on its own.
We do, every time. Nothing reaches you unchecked. The person reviewing your site is the same person who designed and built it, and the same person you will deal with afterwards.
No problem at all. We design and build WordPress sites too, and can work with other platforms if your business needs one. We will always point you to whichever genuinely fits.

Ready for a website built properly?

Tell us about your business and we will come back within one working day with an honest view of what your site needs and what it would cost. If WordPress would suit you better, we will say so.

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