Web Development

Falx web development gives you a fast, secure website your team can update without calling us. We build on Astro with a headless content management system (CMS), connect it to the systems you already use, and stay on to host, patch and improve it under one agreement.

Why change your website?

Add up what your current site really costs. Wix, Squarespace and Webflow charge you every month, and the bill climbs as you add features, shop functions or team seats. You rent the platform; stop paying and your site is gone. That is before the hidden cost: a slow, lookalike site that buyers leave before they ever contact you.

Already on WordPress? Your cost is risk. Every out-of-date plugin, theme or core version is a known way in, and many WordPress sites we review have not been updated in months. A hacked site can leak enquiry data, serve malware to your visitors or drop out of Google overnight.

Rented platforms also answer to someone else’s roadmap. Features change without your consent, prices rise on their schedule, and moving away later costs more the longer you wait. Owning your site on open technology ends that cycle. You pay for the build, hosting typically costs far less than a platform subscription, and nobody can hold your content hostage.

Proof: a broker averaging 12 organic leads a day

A specialist UK insurance broker came to us with a 2,070-page WordPress estate that was slow, insecure and invisible to its own buyers. We rebuilt it as a static Astro site on a headless CMS. It now averages 12 organic leads a day, with 35% arriving through ChatGPT recommendations and 30% through Google organic search. Google Lighthouse scores, which measure speed and accessibility, went from roughly 80 for performance and 57 for accessibility to 99 and 100.

Read the full story: Insurance Broker Website Rebuild.

WordPress or Astro? An honest comparison

We build on Astro, and the table shows why. WordPress is familiar, but every plugin you add is another thing to patch, and an unpatched one is a way in.

Publishing often is no longer a reason to stay. Your editors get a clean CMS on Astro, and there’s no plugin queue waiting for updates. If you’re unsure where your current site stands, a short discovery gives you a straight answer before you spend anything.

Websites your team can actually update

The first release usually targets the sharpest pain: a site nobody can update, pages that load like treacle, a quote journey held together by email. That win proves the approach, then each iteration extends it.

Because the same team builds and supports your site, fixes land fast and improvements come from watching real use, not from change requests vanishing into a backlog.

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The same stack we run ourselves

This very website runs on Astro with Sanity underneath. We migrated our own Falx site to that stack first and proved it in production before offering it to anyone else. Pages ship as static HTML that loads fast everywhere, editors publish through a clean CMS, and there is no server farm to patch or platform landlord to pay.

Every client rebuild now ships on that same proven combination. Your buyers get the speed, your team gets editing without calling us, and we stay to run it: hosting, monitoring, patches and iteration under one agreement, next to your managed services and cloud security.

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Need a web app rather than a website?

Some problems need software, not pages. We replaced an unauthenticated legacy SMS tool with a secure cloud-native platform and rebuilt an unsupported legacy app as a secure read-only repository, cutting its cost by 85%. Both run today under the same kind of continuous agreement that supports the rest of your estate.

Web development sits inside our continuous operations: the same agreement that covers your managed services, cloud security and automations covers the site we build you.

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