Bespoke development
Custom solutions for unique problems
Strategically planned
Built for business objectives
WordPress-free zone
We’re a Craft CMS agency
A development team you can trust
Developers gone AWOL?
Dated UI/UX?
Slow & unresponsive?
Difficult to update?
Not appearing on Google?
Falling behind competitors?
Craft CMS Development
We 🖤 Craft. It's the only CMS we use.
New Websites & Rebuilds
End-to-end design and development
Multilingual Websites
International language switching.
E-commerce
Sell almost anything online.
Member Sites
Free and paid, password-protected areas for member-only sites.
Plugins Development
Custom solutions for unique problems.
Third-party Integrations
Extend and enhance with external APIs.
Support Retainers
Maintained, up-to-date, secure and error-free.
Agency Partnerships
Extend your team’s development capacity with ours.
Website Audits
Blueprints for improved speed, content authorship and plugin selection.
Technically, we’re brilliant
HTML, JS and CSS. We know all the acronyms – and what to do with them.
Speed Matters
Always developed with fast in mind.
Always Security
Keeping up to date and implementing best practices.
Optimisation
Good, better, best. Ongoing, iterative A/B testing.
Thinking of the bigger picture
No website is an island. Strategically planned from day one.
Synchronise your business goals with your user’s needs.
Business Objectives
What are we building – and who are we building it for?
User Research
Make potent development decisions based on real users' data.
Audits
Baseline reports for SEO, content and conversions.
Prototypes
Quickly test ideas and get feedback with prototypes and MVPs.
UI/UX Design
We're web designers too. The perfect accompaniment for development.
Website Accessibility
The W3C use Craft CMS. We use Craft CMS. It’s not a coincidence.
WCAG 2.2 Compliant Development
For all screens, screen readers and users.
Accessibility Audits
Don't unknowingly exclude users. Make sure your site stacks up.
Accessible Updating
Inclusive authorship for everyone.
Website Discovery Workshop
Get absolute clarity on your next website.
Rock-solid process. Zero guesswork.
Our web development process.
1. Discovery
A deep dive into what we're building – and who we're building it for. Speedo's optional.
2. Scope
A detailed blueprint for the project. Like Lego instructions, but without pictures – or Lego.
3. Prototype
Low-fidelity clicky-clicky proof of concept wireframes.
4. UI Design
User-focused, goal-orientated, on-brand UI/UX. Yes, we're web designers too.
5. Development
Scope, Prototype and Designs light the way. Now let's build this mother.
6. Testing
Detailed testing plans leave no digital stone unturned.
7. Launch
To Google... and beyond! (Other search engines are available, apparently).
8. Support
We'll be there for you. Just like The Rembrandts.
9. Optimise
Test. Refine. Repeat. Test. Refine. Repeat. Test. Refine... (Have a wee). Repeat x ∞.
Three small steps for you. One giant leap for your website
Get in touch
Share your problems.
Strategy
Planned and aligned for success.
Delivered
Piping hot. On-time. On budget.
Stuff people say about us
Trusted by 180+ organisations
There's 45,667 other web development agencies in London. So why choose Honcho?
We’re not a full-service agency
We're web experts with business acumen
We don't use WordPress
We build long-term partnerships for success
Like marriage, but with more sex
Ready to talk?
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We are a Craft CMS Verified Partner with 13 years' experience and over 100 Craft CMS projects delivered. Our engineering team specialises in complex data modelling, enterprise API integrations, and frontend performance optimisation — delivering measurable results like 57% faster load times and 85% reductions in page weight.
“The process is efficient, and intelligent, the performance of the site and the entire experience has been consistently excellent.”
What we build
We specialise in bespoke web development for London brands that have outgrown templates and off-the-shelf platforms.
Bespoke Craft CMS architecture
As a Craft CMS Verified Partner, we work directly within Craft's Matrix field structure, Twig templating engine, and element query system to build content models tailored to how your editorial team actually operates. No bloated plugin stacks. No generic themes. Every field, every entry type, and every content relationship is designed from scratch to match your specific information architecture.
Enterprise system integrations
We connect your website to the platforms your business already runs on — Salesforce, HubSpot, custom ERPs, and internal databases — via REST and GraphQL APIs. Data flows securely between systems in real-time. When we rebuilt the Global Connections platform, this integration-first approach delivered a 3x increase in time on site and a 10.7% reduction in bounce rate.
Frontend performance engineering
Core Web Vitals are a direct ranking factor. We build to green Lighthouse scores across LCP, INP, and CLS as a baseline, not an aspiration. Our frontend engineers write compiled, tree-shaken code and leverage imgix for responsive image delivery, lazy loading, and edge caching via CDN.
The numbers speak for themselves:
- Inclusive Growth Network: Page size reduced by 85.2% (2.3MB → 0.34MB). Site speed improved by 57.1% (1.4s → 0.6s).
- Certitude.London: CLS reduced by 66%. Site speed improved by 30.7% (2.6s → 1.8s).
- Pinkmoon: Bounce rate reduced by 10.2%. Engagement rate increased by 5.8%.
"We've been really impressed with Honcho's approach and expertise, so much that we're now on an ongoing retainer service. Highly recommended."
UX, accessibility, and GDPR compliance
Every platform we deliver meets WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards and is fully GDPR compliant. We conduct UX discovery workshops to map user journeys and information architecture before writing a single line of code. The result is interfaces that convert — we increased QualityHive's SaaS sign-up rate to 6.1%.
Our technology stack
| Layer | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Backend | PHP 8.x, Craft CMS 5, Laravel, Node.js, Twig |
| Frontend | Vanilla JavaScript, Vue.js, React, design systems |
| Performance | imgix CDN, lazy loading, static asset compilation, edge caching |
| Infrastructure | DigitalOcean, CI/CD pipelines, headless/decoupled architectures, automated backups |
| Compliance | WCAG 2.2 AA, GDPR, security headers, penetration testing |
This page is part of our full web development services, you can also see everything we do in London, from design to branding.
“Really personable team and the quality of their work is fantastic. I would recommend anyone to use Honcho.”
