Brand websites built to rank and convert
Hiring rounds often take weeks before anyone writes real code. What you usually need is one person who can own the architecture and the delivery from the first week.
Discovery stays short and specific: users, data, and risks. After that we build the critical path first and strengthen it from there.
If that sounds like your situation, Arcode is set up for businesses searching for a website developer. Custom website development with performance, SEO, and clear calls to action.
What you get
- Custom brand websites
- Core Web Vitals focus
- Clear conversion paths
- Easy content updates
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your website developer, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. On website development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. The work for teams in Los Angeles stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For website developer work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
- Strapi
- a headless CMS so content editors ship copy without a deploy
- Vercel
- preview deploys on every branch, so review happens on a real URL instead of a screenshot
What the first weeks look like
- Days 1-3
Context and constraints
Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the website development. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — custom brand websites rather than a setup ticket.
- Weeks 2-6
Build to the milestone
Pull requests, reviews, and weekly demos. You see the work as it happens rather than at a handover meeting.
- Handover
Documented and transferable
Runbooks, architecture notes, and a walkthrough, so the work does not depend on us still being here.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on website development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in Los Angeles
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying LA brands needing polished product UX and solid engineering. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your website development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the website development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
Happy Kids Dental
Frontend · CMS
Pediatric dental site with services, patient resources, and appointment-focused UX.
Code Band clinic product using Next.js, Tailwind, Redux Toolkit, Video.js, and Strapi for content and scheduling flows.
- · Pediatric service pages
- · Patient resource content
- · Appointment scheduling UX
- · Strapi-managed content
Next.js · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi · Video.js
Vigorant
Frontend · Accessibility
Accessible web app with reusable components, Redux Toolkit state, and Strapi integration.
Code Band product built with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Redux Toolkit, focused on accessibility and maintainable UI patterns.
- · Accessibility-first UI
- · Reusable component system
- · Efficient Redux Toolkit logic
- · Strapi-backed content
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi
Quickee UI Library
Design system · Tailwind
Tailwind component library for React and Next.js with reusable UI patterns inspired by Tailwind UI.
Code Band component kit providing a variety of production-ready Tailwind components with Redux-friendly patterns for React and Next.js apps.
- · Reusable Tailwind components
- · React and Next.js ready
- · Consistent interaction patterns
- · Faster UI assembly across projects
React · Next.js · Tailwind · Redux
Working with teams in Los Angeles
LA brands needing polished product UX and solid engineering. We work with clients in Los Angeles remotely and keep overlapping hours in PST/PDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Los Angeles teams
Los Angeles is twelve to thirteen hours behind us, so the overlap sits at the edges: your morning is our evening. We run that as one scheduled call, with written updates waiting when you start your day.
What Los Angeles clients usually need
LA briefs are heavily brand and media led — sites and apps where design quality is the deciding factor, marketplaces, and increasingly AI tooling for content-heavy workflows.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in USD under US contractor agreements with IP assignment. CCPA and CPRA obligations get scoped in, particularly around deletion requests and what gets shared with ad platforms.
