Teesside · Middlesbrough · Stockton · Hartlepool · Redcar

Building a website is like making a parmo.

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01 — The recipe

Six layers. All of them matter.

A good parmo and a good website are built the same way: from the bottom up, in the right order, with nothing skipped because a deadline said so.

A chicken breast being flattened with a meat mallet

Step 1 · Code & data

The chicken

Good meat, properly prepared. Clean code and a sound data model are the part nobody sees, and the part you can't fake. Get this wrong and nothing on top will save it.

A chicken fillet being coated in golden breadcrumbs

Step 2 · Framework

The breadcrumb

Laravel, Shopify, WordPress or Magento, picked to suit the job and applied evenly, so nothing falls apart when it hits the fryer.

A breaded chicken fillet frying golden in a cast iron pan

Step 3 · Testing & launch

The fry

Right temperature, right time. Rush it and it's raw in the middle. We ship in slices and test as we go, so you see progress early.

Béchamel sauce being spread over a fried chicken fillet

Step 4 · Features & integrations

The béchamel

The smooth bit that ties it all together: payments, bookings, stock, your CRM and the systems you already run.

Bubbling melted cheese on a parmo, fresh from the grill

Step 5 · Design

The cheese

What everyone sees first. It should look brilliant, but it's the last layer, not the whole dish.

A parmo in a takeaway box with chips and garlic sauce

Step 6 · Care & support

Chips & garlic sauce

Nobody orders a parmo on its own. Monthly care, fixes and a named senior engineer when something wobbles.

02 — The parmo test

A bad parmo hides everything under the cheese.

So do a lot of agency websites. Shiny on top, raw in the middle, and the takeaway's shut by the time you find out.

The bad parmo

  • An inch of cheese hiding raw chicken: a lovely design on fragile code.
  • "Ready in six weeks." Still frozen in the middle.
  • Soggy by the time it reaches you: slow, insecure, and no one checking.
  • The cook who sold it has gone. A junior's on the fryer now.

A proper one

  • We read your code before we quote. That's the free review.
  • Fair estimates, and we tell you when they move.
  • Speed, security and accessibility measured, not guessed.
  • Named senior engineers, start to finish, and still here after launch.

04 — Cooked locally

Proper Teesside developers.

We're based in Teesside, so we can sit across a table from you over a parmo, not just on a video call. We work with businesses across the Tees Valley, and further afield when the job needs it.

  • Middlesbrough
  • Stockton-on-Tees
  • Hartlepool
  • Redcar
  • Thornaby
  • Billingham
  • Yarm
  • Guisborough
  • Darlington
Mobtag needed someone who would stay on the product, not pitch a rebuild and vanish. Half Shell learned how the field work actually ran, told us what not to build, and shipped something the team still uses. Clear, senior, and still here after go-live.
Chris BirrellMobtag

05 — Free systems review

Free review. FREE parmo when you join.*

15–30 minutes with a senior engineer, in plain English, over a call or a parmo. Then, if you sign up with us, your next parmo is on us.

  • What's solid
  • What's risky
  • What to fix first
Book your table

Pick a time and tell us whether you'd like a call or a parmo. We reply within one working day.

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*If you sign up to a retainer, like. Tees Valley only. Garlic sauce optional.

06 — Prices

Prices on the menu.

No "market price". You know what it costs before you order.

CareFrom £499.99 /mo

Health checks, fixes and a named senior when production wobbles.

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Most commonSilverFrom £2,499.99 /mo

Reserved senior hours every month. For when you'd otherwise post a job spec and wait three months.

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ProjectsFrom £999.99

New builds and rescues, scoped after the review.

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07 — Questions

Asked often.

Are you actually based in Teesside?

Yes. We're in Teesside, and we'd much rather meet you over a parmo than a video call.

Can you take over a site another agency built?

It's the most common reason people call us. We review it first and tell you plainly what's solid, what's risky and what to leave alone.

Do you only work with Teesside businesses?

No, we work with clients across the UK. But if you're local, you get the FREE parmo.

Do you work with Shopify, WordPress and Magento?

Yes, alongside Laravel for custom builds, portals and internal systems.

Is the parmo real?

Very. Join us as a client and you get a FREE parmo. Chicken or pork, your call.

Find out what's under your cheese.

Book a free systems review