ATFI Design · Now booking Q3 2026

Websites that feel alive.
Built like software, not templates.

We design and engineer custom websites for ambitious UK businesses. Hand-coded, performance-obsessed, motion-rich — the kind of site that makes visitors stop scrolling and pay attention.

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What we build

Every detail is designed, every interaction is engineered.

No drag-and-drop builders. No identikit themes. Just bespoke design and clean code, tailored to your brand and built to perform — on every device, for every visitor.

The difference

Most websites look like this. Yours doesn't have to.

A side-by-side. The left card is what 90% of small-business websites feel like in 2026 — a template, slightly customised, half-loaded. The right card is what we ship.

Template

The off-the-shelf site

Drag-and-drop builders. 4MB of unused CSS. Stock photos of handshakes. Mobile menu that doesn't quite work. Looks like everyone else's.

Your Business Name

We are a leading provider of quality services to our valued customers.

ATFI

The hand-built site

Brand-led design. Hand-coded HTML, CSS and JS. Sub-second loads, deliberate motion, ranked content. Looks like you — and feels like it cost real money to build.

Your Business, Designed.

A site that makes visitors stop, look, and pick up the phone.

What you actually get

Built to measurable standards.

Pretty doesn't pay the bills. Every site we ship meets engineering benchmarks — not subjective ones.

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Lighthouse score
Performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO — all four pillars hit 95+
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First contentful paint
Edge-hosted, optimised assets, zero render-blocking scripts
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Responsive
Mobile-first, tested across iOS, Android, desktop and tablet
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Plugins required
Hand-coded means nothing to break when WordPress pushes an update
How we build it

From brief to brilliant in six weeks.

A focused, transparent process that gets your site live without six months of revision rounds.

Week 1 · Discovery

We listen first

A working session to understand your business, your customers, your competitors, and what success actually looks like. We come out with a brief you've signed off on — not a guess.

Week 2–3 · Design

Direction, then detail

Two design directions in week two, refined to one in week three. Real layouts in the browser, not flat mockups — you see how the site will actually feel on day one.

Week 3–5 · Build

Hand-coded, on a staging URL

You watch it come together. Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No theme. No page builder. Tested on real devices, optimised for real networks.

Week 6 · Launch

Live, fast, indexed

DNS cutover, analytics wired up, sitemap submitted, schema validated. Lighthouse audit and an editing handover so you can keep the site current yourself.

Ongoing

We stay involved

Hosting, monitoring, updates, new pages. We're a long-term technical partner — not a one-off supplier who walks away after launch.

The toolkit

Modern tools, chosen carefully.

We pick the stack to fit the brief — not the other way around. Static where it's right, dynamic where it matters, AI-augmented where it earns its keep.

Frontend
HTML5CSSJavaScriptReactAstro
Hosting
CloudflareVercelNetlifyFirebase
CMS
SanityContentfulDecapHeadless WP
Analytics
GA4PlausiblePostHogHotjar
Motion
GSAPMotion OneCSS animationsLottie
AI Integration
ClaudeGPT-4oChatbotsSearch
Ready when you are

Let's build the site your business deserves.

Book a 30-minute design call. We'll look at where you are, where you want to be, and sketch the route between. No pitch deck. No obligation.