# Web Development & CMS Vancouver, Vancouver Website Design

> The platform gets chosen after we understand how your team publishes and what the site has to connect to.

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Service 05 A build your team can look after.
The platform gets chosen after we understand how your team publishes and what the site has to connect to. Sometimes that is a headless CMS with a custom front end, sometimes WordPress, occasionally Webflow. What matters more than the choice is that adding a page six months later does not break the layout.
Talk to us about this See work like this
How long
Usually 8 to 16 weeks
Who runs it
Dave Curtin directs, with long-standing development partners
Fit When this is the right piece of work.
Usually 8 to 16 weeks
From building out a design system to a full CMS with integrations
Dave Curtin directs, with long-standing development partners
This usually fits when
The design is approved but the current platform cannot support it.
The site is slow, or publishing anything requires a developer.
Your team needs to add pages without breaking the layout.
Probably not the right fit if
Building before the design and content are settled.
Choosing a platform before the requirements are understood.
Decisions made together
01 Which platform suits how your team works
02 What the site has to connect to
03 What your team can safely change unaided
What you get What the engagement includes.
01 How the site is put together technically
02 React, Next.js or CMS implementation
03 An accessible component library
04 Content structure, and moving the old content over
05 Making it fast
06 Launch and handover to your team
Work like this We have done this before. Here it is.
All projects
Website Design Thomond Park
Website Design SES Fly Certain
Brand + Website Sallymount House
Common questions The things people ask before they call.
Which platform will you use? That depends on how your team publishes and what the site has to connect to. Often a headless CMS with a custom front end, sometimes WordPress, occasionally Webflow. The decision comes after the requirements, not before.
Can our team edit the site ourselves? Yes. The editing experience is designed as carefully as the public site, so adding a page later cannot break the layout. Your team is trained before handover.
What does it cost and how long? Builds usually take 8 to 16 weeks, depending on how many templates and integrations are involved. Cost follows from that scope.
Do you work with our existing developers? Often, yes. Where there is an in-house team, they receive a documented component system and I stay available while they take it on.
Not sure this is the right service?
Describe the situation and I will tell you whether this is the right piece of work, whether something smaller would do, or whether it is too early.
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