Web Development
Sites that earn their weight. Built on modern frameworks with performance baked in from the first commit, credible with your customers, editable by your team, and yours outright after handoff.
Web Development built for business.
Sites that earn their weight. Fast on mobile, credible with your customers, editable by your team, and yours outright after handoff. No rented templates.
We build on Next.js and React, deploy on Vercel, and hold every page to a Lighthouse 95+ bar from the first commit. Every element is a typed component with a documented reason to exist, the design system is CSS-first, and the content model is chosen for how you actually plan to update the site. What we hand over is a codebase your team, or the next agency, can read on the first pass.
If any of these sound like your business right now.
- Your site takes more than three or four seconds to load on a phone, and every fix from your current team creates a new bug somewhere else.
- You have to email a developer every time you want to change a paragraph, update a photo, or add a page.
- The site was built on a template you cannot customise without breaking the update path.
- Search Console flags mobile usability, indexation, or Core Web Vitals issues you cannot decode and your current team cannot explain.
- Adding a new service or product page requires ripping down a mostly-working page and rebuilding it from scratch.
- The last agency that touched the site left, and you inherited a codebase nobody wants to open.
How we run a web development engagement.
- 01
Scoping and information architecture
Sitemap, page inventory, and the content model chosen for how you actually plan to update the site over the next two years. Framework picked to match the shape of the content (Next.js for most builds, headless CMS where content ops demand it). Fixed scope + fixed number so the invoice matches the estimate at handoff.
- 02
Design system, not one-off pages
Tokens (colour, type, spacing), component library, and a small set of documented patterns rather than page-specific one-offs. Everything is a typed React component with a reason to exist. The site becomes cheaper to extend by month six because the foundation was laid on day one.
- 03
Build to a Lighthouse 95+ bar
Production builds tested at every merge against Lighthouse mobile performance, accessibility, SEO, and best-practices. Structured data, sitemap, robots, OG images, and analytics wired in before launch, not bolted on afterwards. Deploy is Vercel unless you have a specific reason not to.
- 04
Handover as a deliverable
Documentation your next developer can read on day one. Repository access, environment variables, deploy runbook, and a training session for anyone on your team who will touch content. If we walked away Friday, your team keeps shipping Monday.
What we ask before we scope.
Every web development engagement starts with a discovery call, not a template quote. These are the questions we open with so both sides know whether the fit is real before anyone signs anything.
- Q01
What does the current site actually cost you when it fails (leads not captured, orders lost, phone calls not made, credibility damaged)?
- Q02
How often does someone on your team need to update copy, images, or add a page, and who owns that today?
- Q03
What tools does the business already use that the site should integrate with (Shopify, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Airtable, Stripe, Salesforce)?
- Q04
Do you own the domain, the hosting, and the source code today, or is a previous developer or agency still holding one of them?
- Q05
What is the deadline behind the rebuild (event, product launch, regulatory, a previous agency dropped it)?
- Q06
What is the single metric this site is supposed to move (bookings, form fills, phone calls, purchases, credibility with a specific audience)?
Concrete outputs at the end of every project.
- Site architecture + content model
- Design system: tokens, components, patterns
- Production build with Lighthouse 95+ across performance, a11y, SEO, best practices
- SEO stack: metadata, sitemap, robots, JSON-LD, OG images
- Analytics + form pipelines wired to your inbox and sheet of record
- Documentation the next developer can read on day one
How this fits with the rest of the studio.
Sapere Digital runs eight disciplines under one operating standard. Web Development lands harder when it is scoped alongside the practices it naturally reinforces.
Branding & Design
The identity and the surfaces get built together so the brand actually renders correctly on the platform it will most often be seen on, rather than being retrofitted after launch.
SEO
Site architecture, content depth, redirect map, and structured data get made during the build rather than bolted on afterwards when retrofitting costs three to five times as much.
Cybersecurity
Secure defaults, dependency hygiene, secret management, and access controls land in the build rather than as a post-launch audit finding with production deployment risk attached.
A real engagement that used web development.
Mercury Foodservice, Hamilton's independent foodservice distributor since 1993, had been offline for two years behind a scrolling-truck 'Under Construction' page after an abandoned WordPress install went dark. We rebuilt on Next.js with real client photography, a recovered 289-SKU archive from the dead WordPress backup, and a mid-July 2026 DNS cutover that kept every mailbox on the truck fleet intact.
Read the full case studyQuestions before you start.
I do not have a website yet. Where do we start?
With a 60-minute discovery call. We map what your business actually needs the site to do (booking calls, showing work, ranking on Google, taking orders) and quote against that. First-time site owners can be live in three to six weeks depending on scope; the real gating factor is usually copy and photography, not code.
How much does a new website cost?
Small business marketing sites in the US and Canada typically run USD $6,000 to $25,000 depending on scope, page count, integrations, and content help. Custom builds on Next.js scale higher. We quote fixed on scope so the number does not change under your feet mid-project.
How long does it take to build a website?
Three to eight weeks for a marketing site, depending on scope and how ready the content is. If we are writing copy and coordinating photography, the calendar stretches. If you already have text and imagery, we can move fast. We share a week-by-week plan on day one.
Do you host the site too?
We deploy on Vercel by default: fastest option for a modern site, generous free tier, no server administration. If you need something more traditional (WordPress on managed hosting or a hosting bundle) we scope that separately.
Will the site work on mobile?
Every site we ship passes Lighthouse mobile 90+ across performance, accessibility, and SEO. Mobile-first is not a checkbox for us. It is the primary layout target because most traffic in most industries is now on phones.
Digital Marketing
Performance, brand, and content marketing built to compound. We connect campaign craft to the metrics your business actually runs on.
Branding & Design
Brand as a working system, not a moodboard. Strategy, identity, and templates that survive first contact with a live website, a deck, an invoice, and an OG image.