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We are a long-term web partner for businesses that want better websites, practical support, and real results.

Testimonials

Casio Education

We’ve worked with Shape Works for many years, and they’ve been an invaluable partner throughout. The team consistently provide excellent support, helping us manage and develop our website with professionalism, creativity and attention to detail. They’re responsive, easy to work with, and always go the extra mile to deliver high-quality results. We genuinely value our long standing partnership and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.

Elder

The website migration was successfully completed which achieved a 61% increase in conversions year-over-year.

LoyaltyLion

Working with Shape Works has been fantastic. They consistently deliver quick, high-quality work and always bring a positive attitude. Their insightful suggestions have helped improve our website month after month. They’re proactive, reliable, and truly invested in our success.

OUR expertise

Complex content migrations

We plan and deliver complex content migrations, including inter-platform.

See case studies for Elder and Contiki

Modular content editing

We always build a CMS tailored for client needs, making it an extension of the brand.

See case studies for Casio and LoyaltyLion

Custom API integrations

We can integrate with your existing systems, and build custom extensions on top of your existing stack.

See case studies for Cluttons and Capital Industrial

Frequently asked questions

few useful things to know about how we work, what to expect and whether we might be a good fit.

The website projects we work on can vary widely, but a complete website design and build project starts at around £40k.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch even if you’re not sure yet about your budget. Wherever you’re at in the planning process, we’re happy to answer your questions and provide helpful guidance. Without a detailed brief to assess, an informal chat may be enough to provide a ballpark estimate.

This varies depending on each project’s complexity and scope. Moving all the way through the process, from an initial chat to a launch, can be a few weeks or a few months.

Keep in mind that website development is a collaborative process; while we handle everything we can on our end, your input is integral, therefore your own schedule may impact the launch date we propose.

Yes. We regularly help teams get more from their existing WordPress sites, improving them gradually rather than starting again from scratch. We’ll get familiar with how your site is built, identify the biggest opportunities and risks, then help you make steady improvements over time.

That might mean cleaning up technical debt, improving performance, refining the editing experience, adding new features, or redesigning key sections one piece at a time. The end result can be a site that feels completely transformed, without needing one big rebuild project upfront.

We regularly connect WordPress websites with CRMs, property platforms, recruitment systems, booking tools, product databases and other third-party services. These integrations can reduce duplicate administration, keep information consistent and make the website a more useful part of the wider business.

Our work has included integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Reapit, Rightmove, Workable and other bespoke APIs. Some good examples of this include our experience with building property platforms.

Yes. We plan and deliver migrations from proprietary platforms, legacy CMSs and older WordPress builds. That can include transferring thousands of pages, articles, users or other records, while preserving important URLs, metadata and search visibility. Where possible, we automate the process with custom migration scripts rather than relying on repetitive manual entry.

A migration is also an opportunity to improve the structure around the content, rather than simply recreating the old website in a new system.

Protecting existing search visibility forms part of the migration plan.

We review current URLs, content, metadata and internal links, then create redirects where structures need to change. We also look for opportunities to improve technical SEO, performance and content organisation rather than treating the migration as a purely technical transfer.

Our roots are in custom WordPress builds, especially flexible block-based systems that give content teams the best possible editing experience. But we’re not tied to one stack.

Depending on the project, we might build with WordPress, create a headless React web app, integrate with existing platforms, or design a more bespoke system around your needs.

We’re a small team, so you’ll work directly with the people doing the work rather than through layers of account management.

This means you’ll usually speak to the same people, decisions can be made quickly, and important context is not lost between meetings, departments or handovers.

The wider team contributes where their skills are most useful, but you’ll always know who is responsible and who to speak to.

Many of our clients stay with us after launch, or come to us with an existing site that needs ongoing care and improvement. Retainers help us reserve a set amount of time for you each month, so we can guarantee support and plan our resources properly.

Within that time, we can adapt to whatever matters most. That might be maintenance, performance improvements, urgent fixes, or getting new features over the line.

Yes, we can take care of the hosting setup for you and make sure everything is configured properly for launch. We’re not a hosting provider ourselves, but we can work with your preferred platform or recommend a suitable option if you need guidance.

Yes. We have built publishing platforms for organisations whose content plays an important role in attracting, informing or retaining their audience.

This can involve large content archives, multiple authors, editorial workflows, events, memberships, gated resources or content supplied by external systems. We focus on making complex libraries easy for visitors to navigate and straightforward for editorial teams to manage.

Contact us

Looking for a web partner you can rely on? Tell us about your project and we’ll let you know how we can help.


You can reach us by filling out the form, or email directly on hello@shape.works.

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