web development services

What web development services cover

Web development is the engineering side of a website, the code that turns a design into pages that load, forms that submit, products that sell, and systems that talk to each other. A full service covers front end development, which is everything a visitor sees and touches, back end development, which is the logic, database, and integrations behind it, and the setup around both, hosting, security, staging, and performance.

Design decides what the site should be. Development decides how well it works, how fast it loads, and how long it survives. The two live under one roof here, so nothing gets lost in the handoff between a design file and the finished build. Our web design services cover the other half of that partnership.


Web development services we offer

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Custom business websites

The site that runs your marketing, hand coded on WordPress so it loads fast, ranks, and gets edited by your own team without a developer on speed dial. No purchased themes, no page builders underneath.

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Ecommerce development

WooCommerce and Shopify stores with real engineering behind them, catalog structure, checkout flows, and inventory that syncs on its own. For Hog’s Breath Saloon we wired their Yellow Dog inventory system into the store so products and stock update without anyone touching a spreadsheet.

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Portals and members areas

Login areas, gated content, customer accounts, and dashboards. BootCamp Digital sells a 300 course catalog through a checkout we connected directly to their learning platform, so buying a course and getting access is one motion.

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API integrations and automations

The work that makes a website part of your operation instead of a brochure next to it. CRM pipelines, lead routing, payment systems, and third party data. Every form on the Trust Guss build feeds the CRM and fires the follow up sequence their intake team works from.

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Booking and ticketing systems

Sites where the visit ends in a reservation, an appointment, or a ticket. Mystery Fun House runs FareHarbor ticketing inside a site full of animation and sound, and it still books fast on a phone in a parking lot.

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Rebuilds and takeovers

Sites another developer built and left behind, page builder installs that got slow, custom code nobody dares touch. We audit what exists, keep what deserves keeping, and rebuild the rest on the same URLs so nothing earned in search gets lost.

Tell us what it needs to do

Bring the feature list, the platform you are stuck on, or just the problem. We will tell you what we would build, on what, and what it would cost.

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Our development standards

Some things are not optional here, and they are the difference between a site that lasts and a site that gets rebuilt in two years.

web development standards

  • Hand written code. No Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, or purchased themes underneath anything we ship.
  • Passing Core Web Vitals on the templates that matter, measured before launch, not promised after.
  • A short plugin list, because every plugin is code somebody else controls running on your site.
  • Content editable by your team in the standard WordPress editor, with training included.
  • A staging environment on every project, so nothing gets tested on your live site.
  • Full ownership at handoff. Code, content, hosting account, and domain, all yours.

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How we build a WordPress site

Platforms and technology we use

WordPress and WooCommerce for most business sites and stores, because ownership and editability matter to the businesses we work with. Shopify for stores where its checkout and ecosystem are the right trade, and we are a Shopify Partner. Custom PHP and JavaScript for the features no plugin handles well, and third party APIs for everything a site needs to talk to, ticketing, inventory, CRMs, payment systems, and booking engines.

What we do not build on is Wix, Squarespace, or drag and drop builders. Those are products you rent, and businesses usually call us when they have outgrown one. Moving off a builder without losing rankings is its own discipline, and it is work we do constantly.

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Our web development process

STEP 01

Scope and Spec

The feature list becomes a written spec, what gets built, on what platform, connected to which systems, with the edge cases decided before they become surprises.

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STEP 02

Design

Our designer works from the spec while development plans around the design, so nothing gets drawn that cannot be built well and nothing gets built that fights the layout.

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STEP 03

Development on Staging

The build goes up on a private staging site, and you click through real working pages as they are finished instead of waiting for a big reveal.

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STEP 04

Integrations and Data

Payment systems, CRMs, booking engines, and inventory feeds get connected and tested with real data, including what happens when one of them fails.

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STEP 05

Quality Assurance

Every template tested on real phones, tablets, and browsers, every form submitted, every speed number measured against Core Web Vitals before anyone outside the team sees it.

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STEP 06

Launch and Handoff

Redirects live, tracking connected, your team trained, and the code, hosting, and accounts signed over to you. We stay on through the first weeks to fix what real traffic finds.

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Your Website Your Asset

Get a number before you commit

Send the current site and the wish list. A short call later you will have a scope, a timeline, and a price you can hold us to.

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Feedback That Fuels Us

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Working with the PixelChefs team was an absolute pleasure. From the start, they took the time to understand IMPOWER’s mission and translated that into a website that truly reflects who we are as a nonprofit. The entire process was smooth, organized, and collaborative — their communication was always clear, and they made thoughtful recommendations that helped us elevate both design and functionality. One of the biggest highlights was how seamless the handoff felt. PixelChefs empowered our team to easily manage updates on our end, and they were quick to respond to any questions along the way. It’s refreshing to work with a team that genuinely cares about the impact of their work. We’re thrilled with the final site and highly recommend PixelChefs to any organization looking for a partner who combines creativity, professionalism, and heart. - Anna Kesic, President/CEO, IMPOWER
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Bob Powell
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I recently made the decision to work with Alex, Sameed and the team at Pixel Chefs. Their team was very informative and helpful throughout the process and I couldn't be happier with the final result. They took the vision I created for our company and put it to life on our website. They communicated very well throughout the process and hit deadlines without issue. I highly recommend working with this team if you want an incredible outcome.
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Joe Blandi
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Top notch company!! highly recommended everything website, design, management and marketing.
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Scott Schrader
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PixelChefs has been our go-to for web development work for years! Needing a total website rebuild, we wanted to find a website designer that would work with us to put together exactly what we wanted and that would perform flawlessly, they did that perfectly! We continue to work with them for additional projects or anytime something comes up that requires expert web developers.
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Daniel Sweet
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We are an educational website and needed some guidance on how to restructure our site. We were aiming for better performance to help increase our leads and site traffic. I booked a website consultation session with Alex and walked through my questions and issues. I was able to walk away with a solid list of tasks and a clear mapping on how to better our site for growth. Lots of actionable insights to go on and keep us busy! Thanks for your help Alex!
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Hillary Small
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Alex and his Website Design & Development team at PixelChefs know what they're doing when it comes to building Websites that not only elevate the brand of a business, but also accomplish the businesses goals. If looking for a Website Developer that actually delivers and goes above and beyond, contact PixelChefs.
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Aimee Mars
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From my first encounter with the crew at PixelChefs I was impressed. They came highly recommend and not only delivered a beautiful website but far exceeded my expectations. I can't recommend them enough!
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Andrea D'Ambrosio
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Would highly recommend the team at Pixel Chefs. I’ve had an amazing experience with Alex and his talented team who are dedicated to producing beautiful, user friendly and converting websites. Thanks so much! 🙌🙌
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Speakt
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Great company for SEO
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Kiki Tsilimigkra
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This company took our little company site and managed in a short period of time, only 4 months, to get us great results in site SEO and google rankings. We increased our sales and started investing more in digital marketing.
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Casey Bjorkdahl
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Alex, always provides the best guidance when it comes to on page SEO. I highly recommend to anyone.
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Anita Wilson
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I was referred to Pixel Chefs by another marketing firm. I had a very specific request that I needed done for my company and they went above and beyond to help me. Alex has a very high level of expertise in the marketing world. He knows how to do things that most other companies have never even heard of. I am very grateful I was referred to him.
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Emily Kil
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Alex helped us with the complete redesign of our family business' website. His team not only did a great job with the aesthetics of the website but what I loved most about Alex is that he really understands how to design a beautiful website that also converts customers. He took the time to teach me why he was doing the things he was doing to my website which I loved. I feel like I got a crash course on website design from him. :D
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Alex took our site that was a mess and fixed it to be slim and fast. Helped me tremendously and would recommend him to anyone. You have to be careful with who you use for SEO! 5 stars from the 1% Guys!
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Antoine Anchovy
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I contacted them for a little information I needed for a website and the SEO consultation was full of insights. They gave me great ideas that I can use not only once but each time I'm facing a problem. I highly recommend their services!
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Theme Squared
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Alex and his PixelChefs team are extremely professional, on time and always available, by phone or email. We work on multiple projects together nationwide, I would recommend Alex for web design and SEO services.
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Chris Messeroff
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My website wasn't ranking and my traffic was low. Pixel Chefs and Alex helped us develop a comprehensive SEO strategy and our website is doing better than ever. I would recommend them to anybody!
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J Cohen
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Excellent quick service. We're not a big customer, but we're treated like we are. Highly recommended.
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Jeff Murry
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Pixel Chefs is extremely professional.The work is expertly performed and the customer service is unquestionably the best. I highly recommend their services.
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Chris Giarratana
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Alex helped me create a great logo for my business. I also hired Alex to work with me to redesign my website and did a great job on the aesthetics. He also worked me to me optimize the site and restructure content- so my business has a stronger online presence.

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Web development FAQs

Experienced developers bill $100 to $150 an hour. A custom business site takes 80 to 150 hours of skilled work across development, testing, and launch, which is how agency projects land at $8,000 to $25,000. Fixed project pricing protects you from hourly drift, and it is how we quote builds.

AI has made our developers faster, and it has flooded the market with generated sites that all look and break the same way. The judgment calls that make a build succeed, what to code custom, what the integration should do when the API fails, why the checkout is losing people, still belong to humans who have shipped real projects. What AI did replace is the cheap template site.

Design is what the site looks like and how it guides a visitor, layout, type, color, and flow. Development is the code that makes it real, fast, and functional. Agencies that only do one of the two hand your project across a gap. Here the designer and the developers sit on the same project from the first call.

Yes, and it is common. We audit the existing code first and tell you honestly which parts are worth keeping. Sometimes the answer is a cleanup, sometimes it is a rebuild on the same URLs, and we will show you the reasoning either way before you spend anything.

Yes. Several marketing and SEO agencies bring us in as the development arm for their client projects. If your agency sells the strategy and needs the build done right, that arrangement works well and your client relationship stays yours.

Every build includes training and a handoff period, and monthly maintenance with updates, backups, and security monitoring is available after that. It is never a requirement. The site is yours to run or to hand us, whichever fits your team.

Put a real development team on it

Describe the project in three sentences and send it over. We will come back with how we would build it and what it takes.

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