Websites for small businesses.
Built properly.
A clean, fast website that reflects your business — designed and built by hand, not assembled from templates. No page builders. No bloat. CMS and bespoke platforms available when you need more.
Three tiers. One standard of work.
Every engagement starts with understanding what you actually need. Most businesses start with a website. More complex requirements are handled when the project warrants it.
Website
A proper online presence.
A clean, fast, custom-designed site built for your business. Fully responsive, deployed on a CDN, and optimised from day one. No page builders, no bloated themes — just hand-crafted code that loads instantly and reflects your brand.
- Custom design matched to your brand
- Mobile-first, fully responsive
- CDN deployment — fast everywhere
- SEO-ready structure and metadata
- Contact form integrated
- Ongoing hosting & maintenance available
This is the right starting point for most businesses.
Get in touchCMS Website
Edit your own content, no code required.
Everything in the Website tier, plus a headless CMS so your team can update copy, add blog posts, manage team bios, and publish new pages without touching a line of code. Built on the same fast foundation.
- Everything in the Website tier
- Headless CMS integration
- Content editing without a developer
- Structured content types
- Editorial workflow support
- Training included
The right choice if your content changes regularly.
Get in touchBespoke Platform
When a website is not enough.
Custom-built software for businesses that have outgrown standard web tools. Client portals, booking systems, internal admin dashboards, custom APIs, database-backed applications — engineered to your exact requirements.
- Custom database design
- Client-facing portals
- Admin & staff tooling
- REST or serverless APIs
- Authentication & role-based access
- By application only
Not the starting point — but we build them properly when needed.
Get in touchNo published pricing. Every project is scoped individually based on what you need. Get in touch and we'll discuss your requirements and give you a clear quote before anything begins.
Why not just use WordPress?
You could. Plenty of people do. But for most small businesses, WordPress is significantly more than you need — and it comes with ongoing obligations that often get ignored until something breaks.
We build static sites and purpose-built CMS platforms that load fast, have a minimal attack surface, and don't require you to become a sysadmin to keep running. The result is a site that performs better and costs less to maintain.
If your content changes daily and you need a specific WordPress plugin that nothing else replicates, we'll tell you to stick with WordPress. We're not in the business of recommending the wrong solution.
WordPress pages are assembled server-side on every request. Without a caching layer, CDN, and ongoing optimisation, page load times suffer — and so does your search ranking.
Core updates, plugin updates, security patches. Miss one and you have a vulnerability. That maintenance overhead lands on you, not us.
WordPress powers roughly 40% of the web. That makes it the most targeted platform for automated attacks. Plugins introduce third-party code you haven't vetted.
Most small business sites are essentially brochures. A database-backed CMS to serve five pages is the wrong tool. We build what fits the job.
What we've built
A selection of work. Each project is scoped, designed, and built from the ground up — no templates, no recycled codebases.
The Repose Space
Victoria's holistic therapy practice — clinical reflexology, biohacking facials & Indian head massage
Victoria runs a holistic therapy practice in Port Seton offering clinical reflexology, biohacking facials with red light therapy, and Indian head massage. She needed more than a brochure site — so we built a full practice management platform alongside it. Clients can browse treatments, book online, and manage their consultations through a dedicated portal. Victoria has a complete admin dashboard to manage her schedule, client records, and consultation notes. The whole thing runs on a single platform built from scratch around how the practice actually works.
thereposespaceeastlothian.comTreatment pages, pricing, practitioner profile, FAQ, and contact — all built to load fast and rank well.
Clients book treatments directly — selecting the treatment, date, and time — with automatic confirmation.
Clients log in to view their consultation history, upcoming appointments, and manage their own records.
Victoria's admin view — schedule management, client records, consultation notes, and new enquiry inbox.
Structured schema covering clients, treatments, bookings, consultations, and availability — with proper access controls throughout.
Separate authentication flows for clients and the practitioner — one platform, two distinct experiences with appropriate access for each.
"A single platform that handles the public site, treatment bookings, client consultations, and practitioner admin — replacing a patchwork of separate tools with something built specifically for the practice."
More projects on request. We're selective about what we share publicly out of respect for client confidentiality.
Part of the Vellora family
Vellora Design is the web design and development arm of Vellora Ops Ltd, an Edinburgh-based technology company. We build service desk software for businesses; we also build websites for them. The same standards — proper engineering, UK data protection, security by design — apply to every project we take on regardless of size.
You deal directly with the people building your site. No account managers, no project coordinators between you and the code. Straightforward communication, clear deliverables, and a fixed scope agreed before any work starts.
Tell us about your project
No obligation. Tell us what you're looking for and we'll come back with questions if we need them, or a quote if we have enough to work with.
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