NUZM builds three kinds of website: content-managed sites your own team edits, custom web applications with rules a platform will not bend to, and MERN-stack applications where the interface carries most of the product. Which one you need is decided by a single question, and it is not budget.
Which one do you need?
Ask whether the software has rules of its own. Pricing logic, approval chains, stock behaviour, an integration with a system only you run. If it does not, a content-managed site will do the job for a fraction of the cost. If it does, forcing it into a CMS produces a system built out of eleven plugins that nobody can safely update, and the bill arrives later as a security incident rather than an invoice.
What we build
- CMS Development: WordPress and content-managed sites your own team can run, with roles so an intern can draft and only a named person can publish, and a change log recording who changed what.
- Custom Web Development: Laravel and PHP applications built to your requirements, with an automated test suite, a staging site you review on, and the repository in your name.
- MERN Stack Development: MongoDB, Express, React and Node for dashboards, editors and anything that updates without reloading.
What every build includes
A written scope before any code. A staging site, so your customers are never the test. Database migrations, so the schema is versioned like the code. Backups written off-site rather than beside the thing they protect. And a handover at the end that transfers the source code, the repository, the domain, the hosting and every third-party account created for the project.
Questions about web projects
Should we use WordPress or something custom?
Use WordPress when the site is mostly pages and posts, your team will edit it, and the features you need already exist as maintained plugins. Build custom when the software has rules of its own: pricing logic, approvals, integrations, anything a plugin would have to be fought into doing. Choosing custom for a brochure site wastes money; choosing WordPress for an application creates a system nobody can safely update.
How long does a website take to build?
A content-managed site with your branding and real content is usually a matter of weeks. A custom application depends on how many rules it has to encode and how much existing data has to be migrated. The honest answer is that the build is rarely what sets the date: waiting on content, on approvals, and on access to a system somebody else controls accounts for most delays, and all three are on your side rather than ours. We say so at the start so the schedule is realistic rather than optimistic.
Who writes the content for the website?
Usually you, because you know the business. What we do is give you a structure to fill and tell you what each page has to achieve, which is the part most people find hard. If you would rather not write it, we can, and it is quoted separately. What does not work is launching with placeholder text and intending to replace it: sites launched that way still carry the placeholder a year later, and search engines have already judged the page.
Do you provide hosting?
We set it up in your name rather than resell it under ours. That matters more than it sounds: hosting bought through an agency means your site sits inside their account, and its continuity depends on their business continuing and their bills being paid. An account in your name with your billing details is one you can move, and one nobody can hold.
Will the website work properly on a phone?
Every build is tested on a low-end Android device on a slow connection, because that is what most visitors in this market are holding. A site approved on a fast laptop over office broadband tells you nothing about what your customers experience. In practice that testing changes the design: it is where oversized images, unreadable type and buttons too small to hit get caught.
Not sure which of the three you need?
Describe what the site has to do and who will edit it. You get a recommendation and a fixed quote, including when the cheaper option is the right one.