If your business runs on WordPress, the difference between a site that lasts and one that slowly clogs up is how it was built. We take the signed-off design and engineer it as a WordPress site: a custom Divi child theme written as real code, a short and deliberate plugin list, and security and performance in the build from the start. We’re a small studio in north Norfolk, a short drive from Norwich, doing WordPress development for businesses there and across the UK. Starting prices are on the web design page; the quote is fixed in writing before the build begins.
What we mean by it
WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and a fair share of that is slow, bloated, and held together by a dozen plugins nobody dares update. That's not the platform's fault. It's what happens when a site gets assembled rather than built.
A well-built WordPress site is a different thing:
How we work
A few things that shape every WordPress build at BrainWeb.
Every build lives in Git from the first commit. Changes are tracked, the history is readable, and the work can be reviewed before it goes live.
The child theme is written as structured, version-controlled code, built for your design alone. It keeps your customisations safe when Divi updates, and it means the site can be understood and maintained by a developer later, including one who isn't us.
Every plugin is a dependency, a possible way in, and a thing that can break on update. We use as few as the project needs, choose well-maintained ones, and resist the habit of reaching for a plugin every time something needs doing.
Sometimes the better answer is a small piece of custom code rather than a marketplace plugin carrying ten features you'll never use. Where a project needs bespoke functionality, we build it as a clean custom plugin that does one job well.
Security hardening, image optimisation, caching strategy, and Core Web Vitals tuning are part of the build itself. A site should be fast and secure on the day it launches, not after a follow-up invoice. What keeps it that way afterwards, the SSL, backups, and monitoring, is the hosting's job.
The build is tested across modern browsers and devices on a staging environment, and the whole codebase is read by a frontier AI model for security weaknesses and bugs a human review can miss; what it finds, we fix before launch. Launch day handles DNS, redirects, analytics, and search indexing carefully, so nothing breaks and nothing drops out of Google.
Build shapes
The build approach is the same; the scope and technical complexity shift depending on what the site needs to do. The discovery call works out which shape fits your project.
A WordPress build with Divi and a custom child theme, up to about twelve pages, with a blog. The typical content site for an SME: home, services, about, contact, and a blog to publish from over time. Clean code, disciplined plugin use, ready for you to extend yourself.
For larger or more technical projects: custom post types and fields for events, properties, products, or team members; third-party integrations with CRMs, booking systems, or accounting software; custom plugin development; advanced search and filtering; membership or login functionality.
WooCommerce-based online shops. Storefront, product pages, basket, and checkout, with Stripe or PayPal payment integration, UK tax configuration, shipping setup, and order emails. Built to handle real transactions.
What's included
Every WordPress build includes everything below, inside the fixed quote.
Every WordPress site we build meets these as standard. Some are obvious, some less so, all of them matter.
Recent Work
A second website for a second business, launched off the back of Tank Clad's capability but sold under its own name, because the two serve different buyers.
What we built
WordPress Web Design · WordPress Development with Divi · Managed WordPress Hosting
A WordPress site for a family-run Norfolk campervan converter, built around a custom conversions portfolio, a dedicated services and FAQ hub, and a refreshed logo suite for light and dark use.
What we built
WordPress Website Design & Build · Custom Post Type · Managed WordPress Hosting
A multi-page WordPress site for an international aerospace and quality consultancy, built to give a newly formed firm a credible home and ready it for the 2026 standards.
“Ric was suggested to my by a complete stranger and I have been very pleased with his work. … I would certainly recommend Ric to anyone out there.”
A complete website for a Norfolk Broads education charity, built around several very different audiences so each one finds its own clear way in.
What we built
WordPress Web Design
We rebuilt our own site as a WordPress-to-Astro conversion, the same service we sell, built to the same standards we ship to clients, so the site is the proof rather than the claim.
What we built
Web Design · Web Development · Website Hosting · Content Creation
What it costs
It depends on the shape: a standard build, a custom build with post types and integrations, or a WooCommerce store each start at a different point, and the web design page puts the starting prices side by side. Whatever the shape, the quote is fixed in writing before work begins, and the first year of managed WordPress hosting is part of the project.
After launch
WordPress is the most popular publishing platform on the web, which makes it the biggest single target for automated attacks. A site that's built well and kept up to date stays safe. One left to drift between updates, unmonitored, on cheap shared hosting, carries materially more risk than it did two years ago.
That's why every WordPress build includes the first year of managed WordPress hosting as part of the project: daily backups, security monitoring, plugin and core updates, and rescue cover if anything ever goes wrong. The build is hardened during development, and the hosting keeps it that way. The two are part of the same job, not two separate things to worry about.
The other options
Two other build paths sit alongside WordPress Development. If you've not settled on a platform yet, the Build overview has a comparison to help you choose.
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Tell us about your project, the design you've got or the design you still need, and we'll come back with a view on what the build would involve and what it would cost.