Website vs web application — which am I buying?

Presenting information: website. Logged-in users doing work: [web application](/services/web-application-development/). Mixed (marketing site + customer portal): both, ideally on one coherent stack — which is the usual recommendation.

WordPress when editorial velocity matters more than everything else and the plugin surface is kept disciplined; headless/Next.js when performance, security, and design freedom lead. We build both and will put the recommendation in writing for your case.

Will a rebuild hurt our SEO?

Not if migration is engineered: URL mapping, 301s, structured-data parity, and rank monitoring through cutover. Sites lose SEO in rebuilds through negligence, not necessity.

How long does a website build take?

Marketing sites: 4–8 weeks. Larger content platforms: 8–14 weeks. The long pole is usually content readiness on your side — we'll flag that dependency in week one, not week eight.

Do you provide hosting and maintenance?

Deployment to your accounts (Vercel/[AWS](/technologies/aws/)/[Cloudflare](/platforms/cloudflare/)) with [maintenance plans](/services/software-maintenance-support/) for updates, monitoring, and content support — or a clean handover to your team.

Can you work with our designers / brand agency?

Yes — we build faithfully from external design systems, and we'll flag implementation-cost hotspots in their comps before they become change orders.

Web Development Company

The first routing question, answered up front: if your project has logged-in users doing work — portals, dashboards, SaaS — you want web application development, the deeper page. If it presents your business to the world — corporate sites, landing systems, content platforms — you're in the right place. Plenty of projects are both; we build the whole spectrum, which is exactly why the distinction costs you nothing to get wrong here.

[ WHAT WE BUILD · 01 ]

Corporate & marketing websites — engineered for the two jobs that matter: rank and convert. Next.js-based builds with CMS editing, Core Web Vitals budgets, and schema markup wired in from day one.
High-performance landing systems — campaign pages your marketing team can spin up without a developer ticket, with testing hooks built in.
Content platforms & CMS development or WordPress done properly, chosen by your editorial workflow, not fashion.
Ecommerce](/services/ecommerce-development — storefronts and everything behind them.
Web applications](/services/web-application-development — the logged-in software described on its own page.
Site rebuilds & replatforms — modernizing slow, unrankable, or unmaintainable sites without losing the SEO equity you've paid years for.

[ ENGINEERING STANDARDS (THE · 02 ]

Engineering Standards (the Part Buyers Skip and Regret)

**Speed as a feature:** [Core Web Vitals](/resources/best-practices/web-performance-core-web-vitals/) budgets enforced in CI — because speed is a ranking factor, a conversion factor, and the first thing users judge.

**SEO-ready by construction:** semantic markup, schema, clean URLs, sitemap hygiene, and rendering strategies (SSR/SSG) that search engines and AI crawlers can actually read.

**Accessibility:** WCAG 2.2 AA-aligned — legal prudence and larger market in one move.

**Security:** HTTPS everywhere, dependency scanning, hardened headers, and OWASP-aligned practices even on "just a website" — defaced marketing sites are a brand incident.

**Maintainability:** [TypeScript](/technologies/typescript/), component architecture, documentation — so the next developer (yours or ours) inherits an asset, not a mystery.

[ PROCESS · 03 ]

Process

Discovery and content architecture → design (or build from your design team's Figma) → sprint development with a staging URL from week two → launch checklist (redirects, analytics, schema, performance validation) → maintenance plan or clean handover. Rebuilds add: full URL mapping and 301 strategy, rank monitoring through cutover.

[ RECENT WORK · 04 ]

Recent Work

** 2–3 case studies with before/after: speed scores, organic traffic through a replatform, conversion lift]**

[ PRICING · 05 ]

Pricing

Marketing sites: $10K–$40K. Content platforms and complex corporate sites: $30K–$90K. Web applications: priced on the web application page. Rebuilds: $15K–$60K including SEO-preserving migration. Details: web development cost guide.

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