About

Fourteen years of building, fixing and supporting websites

DEVIEC is a web development and ecommerce agency. We help organisations launch new websites, improve platforms that are underperforming, and solve the technical problems that other developers have walked away from.

  • Senior technical attention on every project
  • Platform-neutral recommendations
  • Clear scope, exclusions and change process
  • Work delivered for direct clients and agency partners
A working session around a table during a project planning meeting

Who we are

A development practice, not a sales operation

DEVIEC is a web development and ecommerce agency built on fourteen years of hands-on delivery. We help businesses launch new websites, improve underperforming platforms and solve technical problems across WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Laravel, CodeIgniter, OpenCart and custom PHP.

Our approach is practical: understand the business goal, recommend the right platform, define the work clearly and build for performance, usability and long-term maintenance. From service-business websites and online stores to custom plugins, themes, portals and integrations, every project receives senior technical attention.

We work with organisations and agency partners worldwide, with particular experience across healthcare, trades, professional services, property, hospitality, travel and ecommerce.

How we work

Six principles that decide most of our decisions

These are not values on a wall. They are the reasons we say no to things, and they are testable against how a project actually runs.

  • Business result first

    We ask what commercial outcome the project must produce before discussing technology. If a cheaper intervention would achieve it, we say so.

  • Platform-neutral

    We are not a reseller and take no platform commissions, so the recommendation is based on your requirement rather than our margin.

  • Scope in writing

    Deliverables, exclusions, responsibilities and the change process are agreed before work starts, so nothing important is discovered at the end.

  • Build to be inherited

    Code written so another competent developer can pick it up. No obfuscation, no artificial dependency on us.

  • Accessible and fast by default

    Keyboard operation, sensible contrast, sane page weight and usable layouts from 320 pixels up. Included, not an upgrade.

  • Honest about limits

    When something is outside our experience, when a budget will not achieve the goal, or when the site should be replaced rather than repaired, we say it.

Experience

What fourteen years actually buys you

Not infallibility. What it buys is pattern recognition: the ability to look at a brief and see which parts will cause trouble in month three, and which apparently difficult requirements are actually straightforward.

It also means most of the mistakes have already been made — the migration that lost the order history, the plugin that seemed convenient and became load-bearing, the redesign launched without redirects. That experience is why our scoping stage asks questions that feel unnecessary until the moment one of them turns out to matter.

  • Estimates that account for testing, revision and content delays
  • Risks raised at scoping rather than discovered at delivery
  • Platforms recommended from experience of maintaining them, not just building them
  • Handover treated as part of the job rather than a formality
A whiteboard covered in notes from a project strategy session

Who we work with

Four kinds of client

  • Service businesses

    Where the website's job is to produce qualified enquiries and explain a service properly.

  • Ecommerce operators

    Where trading reliability, fulfilment integration and checkout performance decide the revenue.

  • Established organisations

    Where the requirement is a portal, integration or workflow system rather than a website.

  • Agencies and studios

    Where we provide delivery capacity under someone else's brand.

Being straight about proof

What we have not published yet

Most agency websites open with client logos and results. Ours does not yet, for a simple reason: case studies require the permission of the clients involved, accurate description of our exact role, and results we can actually evidence. Those are being assembled properly rather than approximated.

So instead of unattributed screenshots and invented percentages, this site describes how we work, what we build and where our limits are. If you need sector-specific evidence before committing, ask — and we will tell you honestly what we can and cannot share at this stage.

Questions

About working with DEVIEC

How big is the team?
DEVIEC is a senior-led practice rather than a large agency, which is deliberate. It means the person who scopes your project is the person who builds it, and nothing gets handed down through a layer of account management to be guessed at. It also means we take on fewer projects at once, so we will tell you honestly when we do not have capacity.
Where are you based, and does it matter?
We work with clients across several regions and time zones. In practice, written scope, a shared staging URL and asynchronous updates handle most of a project, with scheduled calls at a time that suits you for the decisions that genuinely need a conversation.
What is your minimum project size?
Diagnostic and repair work can be a single focused engagement. Full builds need enough scope to justify a proper discovery stage, otherwise you are paying for process rather than outcome. If a project is too small for us to add real value, we will say so rather than take it.
Do you subcontract the work?
Development is delivered by us. Where a project needs a specialism outside our own — professional photography, copywriting in a regulated field, specialist legal review — we will tell you that clearly and either recommend someone or ask you to bring your own.
What happens if we want to leave?
You take your site, your code, your documentation and your accounts. Hosting, domains and platform accounts stay in your name throughout, and custom code transfers to you on final payment. We do not build in a way that makes leaving deliberately difficult.

Think we might be a fit?

Tell us what you are trying to build or fix. You will get a straight answer about whether we are the right people for it.