Portland is Nike, Columbia, and a thousand craft brands with strong design opinions — so web development portland has to clear a high aesthetic bar. We build from Manchester: brand-led sites and DTC ecommerce, remotely, honestly priced in USD.
Outdoor and apparel brands need sites where product storytelling and commerce live together: lookbooks that sell, size guides that reduce returns, wholesale portals for retailers. We build Shopify and headless storefronts tuned for the metrics that matter — conversion, average order value, return rate.
The Silicon Forest tech layer and the city’s professional services need B2B sites held to the same design standards. We build those too — and we’re comfortable being told the kerning is wrong. Portland keeps us honest, and we’re better for it.
What that means for your website: it has to work as hard as the business does. We start every Portland project with the commercial goal — more qualified inquiries, better hires, shorter sales cycles — and design backwards from there. Pretty is a byproduct; performance is the brief.
Honest timelines for Portland builds: a brochure or WordPress site in four to six weeks, ecommerce in eight to fourteen, custom web applications in three to six months. Anyone promising faster is cutting something you’ll pay for later — usually testing, content, or both.
What actually determines speed is decisions and content. We keep momentum with weekly check-ins, clear decision logs, and content templates your team can fill in without a copywriting degree. Projects stall waiting on feedback — we make feedback easy.
Technically, we build on stacks chosen for longevity: WordPress for publishing, Shopify and WooCommerce for selling, custom frameworks for the genuinely bespoke. Boring technology, exciting results.
These are indicative ranges, labelled — not quotes. A fixed quote follows a proper scoping call, and we’d rather talk you out of budget you don’t need than into budget we can’t justify. Our Manchester base means US clients typically land at the sensible end of American agency rates for equivalent seniority.
Every quote is fixed before work starts — no hourly billing, no scope creep by invoice.
Portland is eight hours behind Manchester, which we’ve turned into a workflow: deep work happens in our morning (your overnight), collaboration happens in your morning (our afternoon). Standups, demos and decisions land in hours suiting you — nobody’s on a midnight call.
Pricing stays honest because our costs are honest. Manchester salaries and Manchester rent mean we can put senior people on your project at rates Portland agencies reserve for midweight teams. Fixed quotes in USD, staged payments, no padding.
Straight answers to what Portland teams ask us most.
Completely. You own the code, the content, the data and the accounts — hosting, domain, analytics. Everything’s built on open foundations with documentation, so your team or any future agency can take over. No lock-in, ever.
Yes — accessibility is part of our definition of done, not an add-on. Semantic markup, tested keyboard flows, real screen-reader checks. You get a site every customer can use and a record of the work for your files.
Manchester is eight hours ahead of Portland — your mornings are our afternoons, which covers calls, demos and decisions comfortably. Between calls: async updates, a shared project board, and a staging link that’s always current. No midnight meetings, ever.
Brochure sites: 4–6 weeks. Ecommerce: 8–14 weeks. Custom applications: 3–6 months. We put the timeline in writing before we start, demo weekly against it, and flag early if anything threatens it — no deadline surprises.
Yes — migrations are a core discipline. We audit every URL, map redirects page by page, preserve metadata and structure, and launch in stages. Done properly, rankings transfer; done carelessly, years of SEO equity evaporate. We do it properly.
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The same team, the same standards — delivered across eight hours of time difference like it’s nothing. Because for us, it is.
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