Engineering
Websites that load fast, read well and bring in work
Your website is often the first conversation a customer has with you. We design and build sites that load quickly on any connection, explain what you do in plain words and make it easy to get in touch. We build for businesses, charities and public bodies in Nigeria, across Africa, the UK, Europe and the Americas.
Get a quoteWhat we do
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Business and corporate websites
Clear, credible sites for companies that need to explain their services, show their work and turn visitors into enquiries.
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Content-managed websites
WordPress or a headless CMS, set up so your team can publish news, edit pages and add case studies without calling a developer.
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Landing pages and campaign sites
Focused pages for product launches, events and advertising campaigns, built to load instantly and measure every conversion.
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Redesigns and migrations
A new site that keeps the search rankings and backlinks you already have, with every old address redirected to its new home.
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Speed and accessibility fixes
For sites that are slow, fail Core Web Vitals or shut out disabled visitors. We find the causes and fix them properly.
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Care plans
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security patches and small content changes each month, so the site stays healthy after launch.
Speed is part of the design
A slow website loses people before they read a word. That matters even more in markets where most visitors arrive on mobile data that costs real money, as it does across much of Nigeria and the rest of Africa. A page that weighs eight megabytes is not just slow there; it is expensive to open.
We treat performance as a design constraint from the first wireframe. Images are compressed and served in modern formats at the right size for each screen. Fonts are hosted with the site and kept to what is needed. Scripts load only where they are used. Where a site does not need a database on every page view, we often build it as static pages, which are faster, cheaper to host and much harder to hack. The result is a site that passes Google's Core Web Vitals and feels quick in Lagos traffic as well as on fibre in London.
Built to be found from day one
Search engine optimisation is far easier when it is built in rather than bolted on. Every site we deliver has clean, readable addresses, a logical heading structure, unique page titles and descriptions, and structured data that tells Google what your business is, where it operates and what it offers.
If you already have a website, the most important SEO job in a rebuild is not losing what you have. We crawl the old site, list every address that has rankings or links pointing at it, and map each one to its new home with a permanent redirect. We connect Search Console and Analytics before launch and check them in the weeks after, so any problem is caught early. If you want to grow traffic further, our SEO service picks up from there.
A site your team can run
We choose the platform to suit how you will use the site, not out of habit. If you publish news every week and several people need to edit pages, a content management system such as WordPress or a headless CMS makes sense, and we set it up with sensible permissions and editing blocks that keep the design intact. If the site changes a few times a year, a static build may serve you better: no plugins to update, nothing to patch, very little to go wrong.
Either way, you own it. The domain, hosting account, code and content are registered to you, and you receive the logins on launch day. We record a short training session for your team and stay on hand for questions. Many clients then take a monthly care plan, but it is never a condition of the build.
What you get
- Sitemap, wireframes and page-by-page content plan
- Responsive design for mobile, tablet and desktop
- Fully built and tested website on your domain
- Content management set-up and a recorded training session
- On-page SEO: titles, meta descriptions, structured data, XML sitemap and redirects
- Google Analytics 4 and Search Console connected
- Performance report against Core Web Vitals
- Full handover of code, hosting and domain access
Usual tools
HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Next.js, Astro, WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Strapi, PHP, Cloudflare, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4. We choose tools for your requirements and your long-term running costs, not out of habit.
FAQ
Web Design & Development: your questions answered
How long does it take to build a website?
A typical business website of eight to fifteen pages takes four to eight weeks from kick-off to launch. The biggest variable is usually how quickly the written content and photos are ready, and we can help with both.
Which platform will you use?
It depends on how often the site changes and who updates it. We commonly build with WordPress, a headless CMS with Next.js or Astro, or a hand-built static site. We explain the trade-offs and recommend one at the start.
Will I be able to update the website myself?
Yes, if you want to. We set up editing so that your team can change text, images and blog posts without touching code or breaking the layout, and we provide training.
Will we lose our Google rankings if we redesign?
Not if the migration is handled properly. We map every existing address to its new page with permanent redirects and monitor Search Console after launch to catch any problems.
Do you provide hosting and maintenance?
We can recommend and set up hosting in your name, and we offer monthly care plans covering updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. You are free to host and maintain the site elsewhere.
Often paired with
All services- Search Engine Optimisation Technical, content, local and international SEO that earns visibility for the searches your customers make.
- UI/UX & Product Design Research, wireframes, prototypes and design systems for apps, SaaS products and websites.
- E-commerce Development Shopify, WooCommerce and headless stores with local and international payments, delivery and stock built in.
We take on Web Design & Development projects for clients in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Toronto, New York and Houston, and anywhere else you are.
Have a project in mind?
Email info@kollinzinc.com or send us a few details.