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.
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.”
“Enovate has been a trusted partner of Universal Works throughout my tenure. Working closely primarily with Josh on the development of our Shopify storefront, the evolution over the past five years has been dramatic, particularly over the last three years. In 2024 we overhauled the existing Shopify store that had been in place since 2017. Cleaning up the codebase, migrating over to Shopify 2.0 and completely re-skinning the front-end. We have not looked back since. In 2025 we spread our wings further, migrating our domain to a .com as our global presence grew. On this occasion, Michael was engaged on a multi-agency project team, providing expert guidance and support. The project could not have gone more smoothly. Since then, the site has gone from strength to strength, with the level of complexity and functionality growing almost monthly. Josh is a trusted extension of the team, a solid coder and a cool head when the pressure is on. Behind the scenes, both Michael and Dan provide personal and efficient service. I sleep soundly at night knowing our hosting, domain management and other dev ops matters are in their capable hands.”
“Working with Enovate enabled us to achieve our goals for our website. As an international initiative dedicated to advancing high-integrity carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, it is critical that our partners have easy access to our information and resources. Enovate delivered a website that effectively hosts a comprehensive knowledge hub, partner country pages, and interactive tools. Additionally, the platform provided by Enovate allows our team members to efficiently edit the website with consistent formatting and branding, helping to keep pages up to date. Choosing Enovate for our website redesign was an excellent decision that continues to add value for our team and global partners.”
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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