Craft CMS DevelopmentWeb Design & Build
With 84 Craft CMS projects designed, developed, and hosted since 2013, there's little we can't do with Craft, from brochure sites through to complex multi-site and multilingual builds.
An Official Craft Partner since 2018
Craft CMS has been our content management system of choice since 2013, and we've been an Official Craft Partner since 2018 — one of a small number of agencies in the UK formally partnered with Pixel & Tonic.
Most of the Craft sites we've built are still ours to look after. We host them, support them, and extend them years after launch — so what we know about where Craft holds up comes from running it, not just building on it.
It's our default recommendation for any content-managed website where editors need flexibility and developers need a platform that doesn't get in the way.
Our Craft credentials
Craft isn't a platform we picked up recently. It's been the backbone of our web work for over a decade.
What Craft is good at
Craft sits at a rare intersection — a CMS that treats editors like grown-ups, that developers genuinely enjoy working with, and that ages gracefully over the years a website actually has to live.
- Flexible content modelling
- Craft's Matrix fields and entry types let us design content structures that match how your organisation actually thinks about its content, rather than forcing everything into a generic "post" or "page" mould.
- Editor experience
- Craft's control panel is widely regarded as the best in the CMS space. Editors can build pages, reorder content, and preview changes without a manual or a developer — and it's still a pleasure to use three years after launch.
- Multi-site and multilingual
- A single Craft installation can power multiple brands, regions, or languages, each with its own content and templates. Ideal for organisations with more than one audience.
- Developer experience
- Craft's Twig templating, PHP plugin architecture, and event system make it straightforward to extend without the typical CMS pain, so we can handle almost any requirement without fighting the platform.
- Editors can't break the design
- Editors get a set of blocks they can combine to build each page — text, images, galleries, video, quotes, callouts, downloads, and custom blocks we design for each project. Every page stays consistent and on-brand.
- Craft-specialised hosting
- We run Craft on our own AWS infrastructure, tuned for Craft's performance characteristics, with backups, monitoring, and SSL as standard. The team that builds your site also runs it.
What we build with Craft
Four shapes of project account for most of the Craft work we take on.
Brochure and marketing websites
For businesses, charities, and professional services organisations who need a site their own team can keep current without going back to an agency for every change.
Multi-site and multilingual builds
A single install serving multiple brands, regions, or languages, each with its own content, templates, and editorial team — without four separate websites to maintain.
Content-heavy sites
Structured taxonomies, related content, and editorial workflows for organisations publishing at volume — research bodies, membership organisations, and public sector teams.
Migrations from legacy CMSs
WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, Umbraco, and older Craft 2 / Craft 3 installs — including redirect mapping, SEO preservation, and editorial retraining.
Why we build on Craft
We’ve tried most of the alternatives over our time in business — WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, Umbraco, Statamic, and a handful of headless CMSs — and Craft is the one we keep coming back to for content-managed websites.
It’s built around a few principles we agree with: content should be structured, editors should have flexibility without being able to break the design, developers should have clean tools that don’t fight them, and the platform should get out of the way. That combination is why a Craft site we built five years ago is still straightforward to extend today, and why the editors using it rarely need to call us.
Where Craft isn’t the answer
We’d rather tell you this up front than halfway through a project.
For e-commerce we don’t use Craft Commerce. We recommend Shopify for standard online stores and bespoke Laravel builds for complex or deeply integrated e-commerce. That lets Craft stay focused on what it does best: content.
If what you’re building is really an application — users doing work inside it, with workflows, records, and integrations — a CMS will fight you the whole way. That’s a Laravel project, and we’ll say so.
Planning a move to Craft?
The majority of our new Craft projects involve migrating an existing website from another platform. We're experienced with both manual and automated approaches, and we handle the redirect mapping, SEO preservation, and editorial retraining that goes with a platform change.
Craft CMS work
What our clients say
We're incredibly proud of the testimonials we've amassed over the years. They're hard-won—often the result of hundreds or thousands of hours of consistent delivery and timely responses, and partnerships that have lasted years and years.
At Boisdale, our website plays an important role in the day-to-day running of the business, so having the right people looking after it is essential. Enovate have been managing our website hosting and technical support for several years, having originally taken over from our previous provider. Since then, they have given us the confidence that everything is being properly managed behind the scenes, allowing us to concentrate on running the business.
What we particularly value is their practical approach. They understand that in hospitality, things often need to happen quickly, and they are always approachable, responsive and willing to find a solution and make useful thought out recommendations. It's been a very positive working relationship, and one we hope will continue for many years to come.
“Working with Enovate has been an exceptional experience. Michael, Dan and the wider team have played a central role in bringing Pandemic PACT’s work to life, translating complex research funding data into a clear, engaging and accessible digital platform. At Pandemic PACT, a great deal of work goes into gathering, reviewing and analysing information on research funding for diseases with pandemic potential. Making that work accessible and useful to researchers, funders and other audiences is essential to our purpose. Enovate has helped us bridge that gap, giving our work a strong public presence and helping the data tell its story. What I value most is the quality of the collaboration. The team takes time to understand what we are trying to achieve, think through challenges with us and contribute thoughtful, practical ideas. We can bring an initial concept or a complicated requirement to a discussion and work through it together, drawing on their technical expertise and creativity to arrive at a stronger solution. Their willingness to ask questions, explore possibilities and suggest improvements has added real value throughout our work together. The quality of their delivery has been consistently impressive. They have built a bespoke website and data visualisation platform shaped around our needs, with care given to both the detail of the underlying information and the experience of the people using it. They understand how much it matters to present complex material clearly while preserving its meaning. Just as importantly, they are approachable, responsive and a pleasure to work with. Their readiness to help, attention to detail and constructive approach have made them a trusted extension of our team. We have felt supported as the platform has developed and our requirements have evolved. Enovate has made an outstanding contribution to how Pandemic PACT shares its work with the world. I would recommend them wholeheartedly to any organisation looking for a thoughtful, creative and technically excellent team who care about the work they deliver and the people they work with.”
“We've worked with Enovate for many years, and they've been a great company to deal with. They've supported and developed our bespoke Laravel website over the years and continue to provide us with reliable support whenever we need it. The team are knowledgeable, approachable and easy to work with, and we really value the relationship we've built with them. We'd happily recommend Enovate to any business looking for a reliable website design and support partner.”
“Enovate nailed our design vision: a bespoke Shopify build with the unmistakable Portuguese Flannel aesthetic, powered by a fast, flexible backend.”
How we work
A proven process that delivers predictable results. No surprises, just steady progress toward your goals.
Discovery
We start by understanding your goals, audience, and constraints. Through workshops and research, we define the project scope and success criteria.
Strategy & wireframing
We map out the user journey and information architecture. Low-fidelity wireframes let us test ideas quickly before committing to design.
UX/UI design
Visual design that balances aesthetics with usability. We create interfaces that look great and guide users effortlessly toward their goals.
Development
Clean, well-documented code built on proven frameworks. We develop iteratively, sharing progress regularly so you're never in the dark.
Quality assurance & launch
Applications and integration-heavy builds ship with automated test suites, and every project is checked across devices and browsers before it goes live. We handle deployment and keep the launch itself uneventful.
Ongoing support
Our relationship doesn't end at launch. We provide proactive maintenance, security updates, and responsive support to keep your product thriving.
Craft CMS questions
The questions we're asked most often before a project starts. Can't find what you're looking for? Get in touch.
Pixel & Tonic, the company behind Craft, formally partners with a small number of agencies who have a demonstrated track record with the platform. It means we have a direct line to the Craft team, early sight of what's coming, and a body of delivered work that Pixel & Tonic have reviewed. We've held the status since 2018.
Most Craft builds we deliver land between £10,000 and £50,000 depending on the number of templates, the complexity of the content model, and whether the site is multi-site or multilingual. Smaller brochure sites start lower. We scope every project individually and give you a fixed price before any work begins.
A typical marketing site runs 8–14 weeks from kickoff to launch. Multi-site or multilingual builds take longer, and smaller brochure sites can be quicker. The single most common cause of delay is content arriving late, so we plan that in from the start and flag the risk early.
Yes — most of our new Craft projects are migrations. We handle the content transfer, redirect mapping, SEO preservation, and editorial retraining. We've migrated from WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, Umbraco, and older Craft 2 and Craft 3 installs.
Craft Solo is free for single-user sites. Craft Pro, which most organisations need, is a one-off licence with an optional annual fee for continued updates. Plugin licences are separate. We handle the purchasing as part of the project and set out the ongoing costs in your proposal, so there are no surprises.
That's the point of building on Craft. We design the content model around how your team thinks about content, and give editors a set of blocks they can combine freely without being able to break the design. We run a handover training session and leave you with documentation.
Yes. We run Craft sites on our own AWS infrastructure, tuned for Craft's performance characteristics, with backups, monitoring, and SSL as standard. The same team that builds your site is responsible for running it — no handover to a third party.
Craft Commerce exists, but we don't use it. We recommend Shopify for standard online stores and bespoke Laravel builds for complex or deeply integrated e-commerce. That keeps Craft focused on what it does best.
Yes, and we do it regularly. We start with an audit of the codebase, hosting, and Craft version, then give you an honest assessment of what needs attention before we take on ongoing support.
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