Brand websites built to rank and convert
A job description rarely describes the real risk in a product. It helps to work with someone who has already built something similar.
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. The work for teams in the USA stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. On website development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
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 USA
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying US startups and enterprises hiring for shipping speed and applied AI. 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
StudioX Localization
Frontend · i18n
UI polish and language translation pages for the StudioX product experience.
Contract contribution implementing UI fixes and localization pages with Next.js, React, and Tailwind to improve accessibility and multi-language use.
- · Language translation pages
- · UI accessibility fixes
- · Next.js page delivery
- · Clearer multi-language UX
Next.js · React · Tailwind
React Email Templates
Email systems · Resend
Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.
Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.
- · Reusable email templates
- · Resend delivery integration
- · TypeScript-safe composition
- · Tailwind-styled layouts
React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind
Horizan Labs
Frontend · Internship
Marketing website contribution during the Arsol internship, focused on responsive UI and frontend delivery.
Early-career site work at Arsol using React, Next.js, and Tailwind to help ship the Horizan Labs web presence with the team.
- · Responsive marketing pages
- · Team-based frontend delivery
- · Modern React/Next stack
- · UI performance and accessibility focus
React · Next.js · Tailwind · MySQL
Working with teams in USA
US startups and enterprises hiring for shipping speed and applied AI. Work is remote-first (US time zones), with written updates you can read in your own time. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with USA teams
US engagements run on partial overlap: our afternoon is your morning. That is enough for a daily sync window with East Coast teams and a scheduled call with West Coast teams, with the rest handled in writing.
What USA clients usually need
US work is mostly seed-to-Series-A products that need to ship before the next raise, plus established companies adding AI features to software that already has users.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in USD and work under US-style contractor agreements with IP assignment. For healthcare and finance we scope compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2 evidence) into the build rather than bolting it on afterwards.
