· How we work

From kickoff call
to a website you own.

No mystery. No long discovery phases that bill against the budget. A clear four-step process we've refined shipping sites for brands that can't afford delays.

01
Day 1 · 30 minutes

Kickoff call

One half-hour video call to understand your business, audience, and goals. No forms to fill out beforehand. We do the work of turning the conversation into a project brief you'll approve before anything moves forward.

Business goals
What success looks like in 90 days.
Audience
Who we're designing for.
Content inventory
What you already have. What we need to create.
Project brief
One page you approve before we start.
02
Day 2 to 5

Design draft

Within 48 to 72 hours, you see a real, high-fidelity design. Not a wireframe. Not a template. A visual of how your site will actually look, with your colors, photos, and copy. We iterate from something concrete, not from squares and placeholder text.

Homepage design
Pixel-complete, not a sketch.
Design system
Colors, type, components, spacing.
Mobile views
How it looks on every screen.
Feedback round
Notes captured, revisions locked in.
03
Week 2 to 3

Build & revise

Development happens on a private staging site you can watch come together in real time. We build cleanly, test across devices, and roll in your revisions as we go. No waiting two weeks to see progress. No surprise invoices for changes.

Staging access
Private URL you can share with your team.
Content integration
Real copy, real images, real forms.
Cross-device testing
Phones, tablets, desktops, every browser.
Performance tuning
Sub-2-second load times, every page.
04
Week 3 to 4

Launch & training

Go-live day. We handle DNS, SSL, redirects, and the technical details. Then we walk you through editing your own site in a one-hour training call. You leave with every file, every login, and the confidence to run the site yourself.

Domain & SSL configured
Everything routes correctly on day one.
Admin training
Recorded, so you can rewatch it.
Full file handover
Code, assets, logins, documentation.
30-day post-launch support
Any bugs or fixes are on us.
· What ownership actually means

What you actually own.

"Own your website" is a phrase platforms love to use loosely. Here's what it actually means when we hand something over, compared to what you get on a typical drag-and-drop platform.

On a drag-and-drop platform

What you don't actually own

The code behind your site
The design templates (licensed, not owned)
Your hosting environment
The ability to move elsewhere
Your site if you stop paying
Full database access
Custom functionality beyond their features
What you get from us

What you actually own

Every line of code on your site
Custom design with no template license
Full WordPress installation, yours to host anywhere
Freedom to move hosts without permission
A site that keeps running even if we vanish tomorrow
Full database, admin access, FTP credentials
A platform any developer can extend
· The tools we reach for

Built on proven tools.

Nothing proprietary. Nothing esoteric. Everything we use is documented, supported by millions of developers worldwide, and yours to work with however you choose.

Core platform
WordPress PHP 8.2+ MariaDB / MySQL
Front-end
Semantic HTML5 Modern CSS Vanilla JavaScript Alpine.js where useful
Editing & content
Block Editor (Gutenberg) Advanced Custom Fields Custom Post Types
SEO & analytics
Rank Math or Yoast Google Analytics 4 Search Console Schema markup
Performance & security
Cloudflare CDN WP Rocket caching Wordfence Automated backups
Hosting partners we recommend
Cloudways SiteGround WP Engine Kinsta
· Where we draw the line

What we won't do.

We could pretend we're a one-stop shop for everything digital, but you'd hate us for it six months in. Here's what we don't do, and where we'll refer you instead.

We don't build complex web apps

If you need a custom platform, SaaS product, or something genuinely novel, you need an engineering team, not us. We'll tell you early.

We don't run your ads

Google Ads, Meta Ads, programmatic: we'll refer you to specialists who do it full-time. That's not our wheelhouse at 900website.

We don't chase edge-case plugins

If your request requires a niche plugin with two reviews from 2019, we'll push back. We stick to battle-tested tools that'll still work in five years.

We don't oversell you

If a Launch Site is all you need, we won't push you to the Full Website. If you're a Growth Package fit, we'll tell you plainly.

· Ready when you are

Let's run you through
all four steps.

Book your kickoff call. 30 minutes. No sales pitch. Just a real conversation about what you need.