Services
A professional website should make your business or organisation easier to understand, easier to trust and easier to contact. Provelopment can take care of the whole website — from planning and building it to hosting, updates and ongoing improvement — or step in for the part you need. Start with the situation that sounds most like yours.
Start a new website
You need a professional website and want somebody to take responsibility for getting it right from the beginning.
- Planning the pages, content and visitor journey around what you need the website to achieve
- Creating a clear structure so people can find what matters without having to work for it
- Designing and building a professional website around your brand rather than forcing you into a rigid template
- Setting up your colours, typography, imagery and visual presentation
- Helping shape and organise the content you need to launch with confidence
- Building in the fundamentals that help search engines understand your pages
- Hosting the website and taking it live on your own domain
- Ongoing website care if you would rather we keep looking after it
A straightforward new website can usually be agreed as a clearly defined package, so you know what is being built and what is included before the work begins.
Modernise an existing website
Your current website feels dated, is difficult to manage, no longer represents the business properly or simply is not doing the job you need it to do.
- Reviewing the existing site to understand what is working, what is not and what is worth keeping
- Keeping useful pages and content rather than starting again for the sake of it
- Reorganising the site so visitors can find information more easily
- Rebuilding the website on Provelopment Foundation with a modern, professional presentation
- Reworking approved content so it fits the new site properly instead of simply copying old pages across
- Updating the branding and presentation where the business has moved on
- Protecting important page addresses and search visibility where the site is being replaced
- Moving the new website onto your domain and taking it live
- Ongoing care afterwards if you want us to keep managing it
Every existing website is different. We review what is there first, agree what should stay, change or disappear, and then scope and quote the modernisation before work begins.
Grow or extend your website
Your website already works, but the business or organisation has moved forward and the site needs to move with it.
- Adding new pages, services, projects, resources or other content as your needs grow
- Restructuring navigation and content when the website has outgrown its original shape
- Refreshing branding, presentation or key sections without replacing the whole site
- Improving page structure and internal links to make important content easier to find
- Expanding into more detailed service, project, news, guide or information sections
- Adding more sophisticated presentation where the website now needs it
- Publishing the website in additional languages when you need to reach people in another language
- Adding new locations when the business expands into new towns, cities, regions or countries
- Making use of more advanced Foundation capability without having to replace the website underneath it
Small additions can be straightforward. Larger changes that affect the structure of the site are reviewed and scoped first, so the website can grow without turning into a collection of disconnected additions.
Managed website service
You want the website to stay current and professional without having to manage the technical work yourself.
- Hosting and keeping the website available
- Updating pages, wording and other content when something changes
- Adjusting navigation, structure and presentation as the organisation evolves
- Routine maintenance and keeping the website implementation current
- Improving the site over time instead of waiting until it feels outdated again
- Making website changes that help visitors and search engines find important information
- Practical advice when you are not sure how best to make a change
Managed service is optional. It can begin when the website launches or later, and it can stop whenever it is no longer useful. We agree what ongoing work is covered, and anything outside that arrangement is quoted before it is added.
A professional website built around what you need
Provelopment is not a template service that asks your business to fit itself into a fixed set of pages. We use a proven open-source foundation, then shape the website around what you need to communicate, how your visitors need to use it and how far you expect it to grow.
From idea to working website
Planning, structure, pages, content, branding, mobile presentation, accessibility, search fundamentals, hosting and launch can all be handled as one joined-up piece of work.
Built on a foundation you can grow with
Every Provelopment website is built on Provelopment Foundation. It gives a straightforward website the same underlying capability to grow into something far more sophisticated when the need arises.
Looked after, if you want that
The website does not have to become another technical responsibility inside your organisation. We can host it, maintain it and make changes for you for as long as that service is useful.
Focused on the website itself
These services cover the public website and the work around it. Business systems such as customer accounts, payment platforms, booking systems, CRM, internal dashboards and back-office automation are separate kinds of work.
Big website capability, without needing to start big
A small business or community organisation may only need a handful of pages today. That should not mean choosing a website that becomes a dead end tomorrow. Provelopment Foundation gives the site room to grow into the kind of capability usually associated with much larger websites — without forcing you to pay for or manage complexity you do not need.
Reach people in more than one language
Publish the website in additional languages when it becomes useful, so you can communicate more naturally with different communities or enter markets where another language matters.
Serve more than one location
Give different branches, offices or operating areas their own addresses, contact details, opening hours and local information while keeping everything part of one consistent website.
Show the right prices in each market
If you operate in different markets, the website can present prices in the appropriate local currency rather than asking every visitor to interpret one global price list.
Show whether a location is open
Individual locations can display their current opening status using their own timezone, hours and holiday schedule.
Organise a much larger body of content
As the website grows, services, projects, guides, resources and other information can be organised into clear page families instead of being squeezed into increasingly long pages.
Tailor the experience to the organisation
Navigation, page layouts and interaction can be shaped around the kind of website you actually need rather than forcing every organisation into the same presentation.
Ashcombe Landscapes & Gardens demonstrates the advanced end of this capability: thirteen locations across nine languages, with local business details, opening hours and pricing in local currencies. It shows how far the same Foundation can grow when the organisation needs more.
Clear work where we can be clear. Proper scoping where we cannot.
Not every website job should be priced the same way. Some work is predictable enough to define clearly from the beginning. Other work depends on the website, content or requirements already in front of us. We make that distinction before the work starts.
Straightforward work
A new website with a clear shape, or a well-defined piece of work on an existing site, can usually be offered with an agreed scope and a clear deliverable.
Work that needs scoping
Modernising an existing website, restructuring a larger site or dealing with unusual requirements needs to be understood first. We review the situation, agree what needs to be done and quote the work before it begins.
Either way, you know what has been agreed before we start. If something new is added later, we agree and quote it separately rather than quietly expanding the job.
Built for you, without making you dependent on us
We want you to keep working with Provelopment because the service is valuable, not because moving your website would be painful.
Your website stays with you
Your site-specific content, branding and setup travel with the website rather than being trapped inside a closed website builder.
Ongoing management is optional
You can ask us to keep looking after the site, take over more of it yourself, or make a different arrangement later.
You can take it elsewhere
The website can be run by your own developer or another provider without rebuilding everything from the beginning.
The foundation underneath stays open
Provelopment Foundation is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, so the software your website is built on does not depend on an ongoing commercial relationship with Provelopment.
Start with where you are now
You do not need to know which service label fits before talking about the website. If you need your first site, want to replace an old one, have outgrown what you already have or simply want somebody else to look after it, start there. We can work out the right path from the situation in front of us.