Custom Development
Every website begins with custom website design and is built from scratch using optimized, hand-crafted code and style sheets.
Why "Hand-Coded" Actually Matters
Most website developers today don’t write their own HTML. They assemble it from WYSIWYG tools, themes, and plugins. That approach can work well for a hobby blog, but it falls apart for a business that depends on its website working, loading fast, and staying secure.
No Plugin Vulnerabilities
Template-based sites often lean on hundreds of third-party plugins to do what hand-written code does natively, and every plugin is a door left open. We don’t install what we can build.
No Site-Builder Bloat
Page builders ship enormous amounts of code your site doesn’t need. Hand-coded pages carry only what belongs on the page, for faster downloads, faster rendering, and better retention.
Standards-Compliant, Future-Proof
Every site is built to real, validated web standards and tested across browsers and platforms, so it renders correctly today and keeps working as the web moves forward, not tied to a theme that stops getting updates.
Built for Search & Accessibility
Clean, semantic markup is what search engines and assistive technology actually read. There’s no bloated code standing between your content and the people trying to find it.
Complete Design Control
Nothing is boxed in by a theme's limitations. If it can be built for the web, we can build it, on your terms.
Someone Who Actually Knows Your Code
Because we wrote it, we know every line of it. That means faster fixes, faster changes, and no archaeology required to figure out what was done five years ago.
What We Build
Custom-designed marketing sites, content-driven business sites, and web applications, built with clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus PHP and Perl on the back end where real functionality is needed. Every project is designed around your business first.
Template & page-builder sites
Themes fighting your content. Plugin updates that break the layout. Slower load times. A developer who has to relearn someone else’s plugin stack every time something needs fixing.
Web Detailer hand-coded sites
Lean, fast code, built specifically for your business and maintained by the people who wrote it. Nothing borrowed, nothing bloated.
Custom Web Applications
Beyond marketing sites, we design and build custom web applications, including interactive tools, member and client portals, and data-driven features, hosted and maintained in-house, so there’s nothing for you to install or manage separately.
Like Any Skilled Craftsman
This "from scratch" development is at the heart of why we call ourselves the Web Detailer. We aim to control every aspect of your site's appearance and performance, so it stays lean and fast, with graphics optimized for every browser, content built around a clear and consistent message, and the search-engine visibility to make sure the site actually gets found.
Have an idea for your site or a project already underway?
Tell us what you’re building. We’ll tell you how we’d build it right.