You focus on what you do. We’ll take care of the website.
Websites for businesses and organisations
Provelopment designs, builds, hosts and looks after professional websites for businesses and organisations.
Whether you need your first website, want to replace one that no longer represents you, or simply want someone else to keep it current, we can take care of the work from start to finish.
Every Provelopment site is built on open-source Provelopment Foundation — giving you a website that can grow with you without locking you into us.
A complete website service, without the technical burden
A good website should make it easier for people to understand who you are, what you offer and what they should do next.
Getting there should not require you to become a web developer, learn how hosting works or coordinate a collection of different suppliers.
We bring the website work together: planning, structure, content, design, build, hosting, launch and ongoing care.
Starting from scratch
No website yet? We help turn what you know about your business or organisation into a clear, professional site — organised around what your visitors need to know and built ready to grow with you.
Modernising an existing website
If your current site feels dated, is difficult to maintain or no longer reflects who you are, we can rebuild it properly while keeping the content and ideas that are still worth keeping.
Hosting and ongoing care
You do not have to manage the technical side after launch. We can host the site, keep it maintained, update pages and content, and make changes as your needs evolve.
Built around what you need people to understand
Your website should feel like you — not like the same generic site with a different logo dropped into it.
We start with what you need to communicate, who the website needs to serve and what you want visitors to do. From there we shape the pages, content, branding and presentation around that job.
That works just as well for a local business as it does for a church, community group, charity, association or other organisation that needs a credible presence online.
Clear for your visitors
People should be able to understand what you do, find the information they need and know what to do next.
Professional on every screen
Your site is designed to work properly across desktop, tablet and mobile, with usability and accessibility considered as part of the build.
Ready to be found
Page structure, titles, descriptions and internal links are handled as part of building the site, giving search engines a clear picture of what each page is about.
Built to change with you
Your website is not frozen on launch day. Pages, content and structure can evolve as your business or organisation changes.
A strong website starts with the right foundation
Every Provelopment website is built on Provelopment Foundation.
That gives us a reliable professional base to build on today, while leaving room for the website to become much more capable tomorrow.
A small business, church, community group or other organisation may only need a straightforward website to begin with. That should not mean choosing something that becomes a dead end as soon as your needs grow.
Foundation lets you start with the website that makes sense today without forcing you to pay for or manage complexity you do not need — while keeping the capability to grow into the kind of website normally associated with much larger organisations.
Reach people in their own language
Foundation supports multilingual websites, so you can add another language when it becomes useful rather than rebuilding the site around a new system.
That can help you communicate more naturally with the people you already serve, reach new communities or expand into markets where English is not the best way to speak to your audience.
Grow into new locations
If your business expands into another town, city, region or country, the site can support different locations with their own business details, opening hours and local information.
That means one website can grow with the organisation instead of becoming a collection of disconnected sites.
Present the right information in the right market
Where different locations need different currencies, prices, languages or operating information, the website can present the appropriate information for that market.
You can grow the reach of the business without losing the consistency of the brand behind it.
A straightforward way to get from idea to live website
You do not need to arrive with a technical specification.
Start by telling us about the business or organisation, where you are now and what you want the website to achieve.
We work out what needs to be built, agree the scope with you, and then do the work.
You review the real website before it goes live, so you can see how it looks, read what it says and make sure it represents you properly.
Once the agreed work is ready, we launch it.
After that, Provelopment can keep looking after the site for you — or you can take it from there.
Your website should give you options, not take them away
We would rather keep your business by being useful than by making it difficult to leave.
Your site-specific content, branding and setup stay with the website. The software underneath it — Provelopment Foundation — is open source.
That means the website can be run by Provelopment, by your own developer, by another provider, or by you if you have the technical capability.
Your website can move with you
Your words, images, branding and site-specific setup are not trapped inside a closed website builder.
If you decide to work with somebody else, you are not starting again from nothing.
The foundation underneath it is open source
Provelopment Foundation is published under the Apache-2.0 licence and can be used, changed and hosted independently of Provelopment.
The technology your website depends on is not something we keep behind a locked door.
Ongoing service is a choice
We can host, maintain and improve your website for as long as that service is useful to you.
Staying with Provelopment is a service choice, not a technical requirement.
See what the same foundation can grow into
The Provelopment site you are looking at now is itself built on Foundation.
Together with the Foundation project site and the two business demonstrations below, there are four live websites showing how the same platform can serve very different needs.
The three external examples below show the range from a straightforward local business website to a large multilingual information site and an advanced international business website.
A large multilingual information site
Provelopment Foundation
The open-source project's own website, publishing extensive project information and documentation across nine languages.
An advanced international business demonstration
Ashcombe Landscapes & Gardens
A fictional business operating across thirteen locations and nine languages, with local business details, opening hours and pricing in local currencies.
It shows how the same website can support a business as it moves into new locations and new language markets.
A straightforward local-business demonstration
Ashcombe Cleaning Co.
A fictional single-market website focused on services, customer reviews, practical business information and a clear enquiry journey.
It shows that the platform does not need complexity where the business does not need it.
Ashcombe Landscapes & Gardens and Ashcombe Cleaning Co. are fictional demonstrations created to show what the platform can do. They are not customers or case studies.
Want to build a website business of your own?
Provelopment is not only for people who need a website.
If you want to build a business helping other businesses and organisations establish or improve their presence online, there are two paths.
Build independently with Foundation
Use the open-source Foundation project to build your own website business with your own technical team, your own services and your own commercial model.
There is no requirement to work with Provelopment.
Become a Provelopment reseller
Build the customer relationships in your local market without needing to become a web developer yourself.
When technical website work is needed, you can do it yourself if you have the capability, use a contractor you trust, or ask Provelopment to quote for the work.
What matters most is being able to communicate well, understand what customers need and build trusted relationships in your community.
You can also build complementary services around the website work — such as translation, design, photography or video — and make the business your own.
Start with the website you need today
You do not need to know what platform to choose, how the site should be structured or what technology sits behind it.
You just need to know what you want the website to help you achieve.
Whether you are starting from nothing, replacing an old site, expanding into new markets or looking for somebody to take care of the website you already have, we can start from there.