HubSpot calls its website platform Content Hub. Hosting, the global CDN, SSL, and security patching come bundled with it, which removes a whole category of problems we spend real hours fixing on other platforms. A typical WordPress rebuild takes a site from 37 plugins down to about five. A HubSpot site runs on none. What the platform cannot do is design itself, and the shortage of HubL developers means most agencies fill that gap with a marketplace template and a logo swap. We fill it with code.
One team, one point of contact, and everything built inside your portal.
Modules get a longer entry here because they decide more than the design does. They are the blocks your marketers drag onto pages, and a team can only ever add what a developer has built, so a thin module library quietly turns every new landing page into a developer ticket. We build the library wide and lock the editing controls to your brand, fewer choices with better defaults, so ten different editors still produce pages that look like one company made them. When we scope a HubSpot build, the module list gets argued over harder than the homepage design.
A theme written in HubL from a blank file, through the HubSpot CLI, in version control. Templates, global headers and footers, and a style system that carries your brand in code, which is why the design still holds a year after launch.
The rule does not bend. Every URL that ranks stays exactly where it is, mapped in an architecture spreadsheet before any template gets written. We carried Trust Guss Injury Lawyers through a migration of more than 1,000 pages and posts without losing a single ranking URL, and that discipline transfers to any platform.
A rebuild inside the portal you already pay for, keeping the content, rankings, and CRM data earned over years. Redesigns are where traffic usually dies, which is exactly why ours start with a crawl instead of a mood board.
Landing page templates with your CRM fields wired straight into the forms. One caveat other agencies skip, smart content only personalizes for visitors HubSpot can identify, and most organic visitors arrive anonymous, so we write the default version like it is the only version.
Purchased templates ship heavy because they were built to demo well, not to load fast. Hand coded themes carry none of that weight, and passing Core Web Vitals is a build standard here, not an upsell.
One target keyword per page, internal links planned on a spreadsheet, and a page structure Google can crawl without guessing. Search gets settled at the architecture stage, months before launch.
Most buyers price a marketplace theme first, so here is the honest comparison.
Where templates winTemplates do win in one case. If you need a serviceable site live next month and design differentiation does not matter yet, buy one, launch, and come back to us when it starts to matter.
Most of the work we take on starts with a mess someone else left behind. The same three problems show up on almost every call about a failed build.
We crawl your current site and build a spreadsheet with every URL, its status code, its target keyword, and a keep, kill, or redirect decision. Nothing gets designed until this exists, because this is where rankings get saved or lost.
Each page gets one target keyword. Pages that chase two keywords rank for neither, and pages with no keyword are decoration. This map also decides the navigation, so the site structure sells the way buyers search.
Wireframes come in greyscale with no images, so every page has to make its case on a skim and nobody argues about a photo. Content comes before design, because every time we ran it the other way, the project stalled. Full color design follows once the words are approved.
The theme gets written in HubL through the HubSpot CLI, in version control, with modules built around how your team publishes. Starting from HubSpot’s boilerplate theme or from an empty folder gets decided per project. We have gone back and forth on that for years, boilerplate saves setup days, an empty folder gives leaner markup, and there is still no house rule.
Every template gets tested across devices and browsers, forms get submitted against your live CRM, and pages get held to Core Web Vitals before anyone talks about a launch date.
Redirects go live, rankings get watched, and your team gets trained on editing their own site. Every project runs on a shared Gantt chart with 30 days of post launch fixes built in.
Send over the site and the goal. What comes back is a written plan you can forward to whoever signs off, with the page list, the timeline, and every keep, kill, or redirect call we would make. If the right answer is a different platform or no rebuild at all, that is what the plan will say.
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Plan on 3 to 4 months for a standard build and closer to 2 months for a smaller site, with migrations depending on page count. The dates live on a shared Gantt chart from week one, so you are never guessing where the project stands.
Yes. Marketers drag modules onto pages, edit inline, and publish without touching code. Independence scales with the module library, which is why we build it wide and lock the controls to your brand.
Yes. Rankings live on URLs, so every ranking URL stays put and redirects cover what gets retired. The full method is on our website migration page.
Professional covers most marketing sites. HubSpot holds a few features back for Enterprise, gated member content and serverless functions among them, so the tier depends on your feature list. We will name the cheapest one that fits before you sign anything with HubSpot.
Then you will hear it before spending anything. A company that does not run on the HubSpot CRM gets the same performance from a custom WordPress build with no subscription underneath it, and stores belong on WooCommerce or Shopify. We build on all four.
Yes. You keep the client and the strategy, we build inside your client’s portal, and we never compete for the retainer. The next referral depends on this build performing, which keeps our incentives lined up with yours.
The first call is a conversation, not a pitch. Tell us where the site stands and what it has to do, and what comes back is a plan with the page list, the timeline, and every keep, kill, or redirect call spelled out, the kind of document you can hand to whoever signs off. There is no retainer to commit to and no hosting you are forced to buy, and if the straight answer is that you do not need us yet, that is the answer you get.
