Website design and development in Dorset, built the right way

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Professional websites, built the right way for your business

Every website Cirrus builds is hand-crafted: bespoke coded, AI-powered on our own CMS, or professionally designed through our Wix Premier Partner status. Mobile-friendly, accessible and built to perform in search from day one.

A Cirrus website looks professional, loads fast and works on every device. But more importantly, it’s built to convert visitors into enquiries, not just to look good in a screenshot.

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Bespoke hand-coded, AI-powered CMS or Wix Premier Partner: all built properly

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AI content. Bespoke code. Your CMS. All three together.

This is the approach we used to build the Cirrus Design Studio website itself, and we now offer it to clients as a distinct service.

The starting point is AI. We use it to research, structure and draft the content for every page, so each page is properly targeted, logically structured and written in the right tone of voice for your business. But unlike a DIY AI website builder, the AI is only the beginning.

That content is then built into a hand-coded HTML and CSS website (clean, fast, no plugin dependencies, no platform limitations) with a bespoke CMS sitting behind it. Through that CMS you get an interactive editor that lets you update text, formatting and content yourself, without touching any code and without calling us every time a page needs a change.

The result combines the speed and intelligence of AI content generation with the quality of bespoke website development and the day-to-day flexibility of a managed CMS, plus all the technical SEO advantages of hand-coded, search-engine-friendly HTML from the ground up.

1. AI content generation

   We use AI to research your business, your market and your audience, then generate professionally structured, well-targeted content for every page of your site.

2. Bespoke build

   The content is built into hand-coded HTML and CSS by our development team: clean, fast, fully accessible and structured for search engines from the ground up.

3. CMS integration

   A bespoke CMS editor is connected to your site, giving you an interactive interface to update content, formatting and pages yourself without touching any code.

4. Live and growing

   Your site launches fast, looks professional and is yours to manage. New pages and features are added as your business grows, by us or by you through the editor.

• AIIntelligent content

  AI-generated content that is properly structured, well-targeted and written in your business’s tone of voice, reviewed and refined before a single line of code is written.

• { }Bespoke code

  Hand-written HTML and CSS: no plugin dependencies, no platform constraints, no template compromises. Fast, clean and built for search engines from the ground up.

• CMSYour editor

  A bespoke interactive editor gives you control over your content: update text, formatting and pages yourself without code, without calling us and without platform fees.

The Cirrus Design Studio website itself was built this way. You are looking at the output right now: AI-structured content, hand-coded HTML and CSS, and a bespoke CMS managing every page. If it works well enough for us to run our own business on, it will work for yours.

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Built to perform, not just to look good

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Wix Headless: a bespoke front end on managed infrastructure

Wix Headless is the part of the platform most people have never heard of, and it closes the oldest gap in web development. Traditionally you chose between a bespoke build (total design freedom, but you rebuild logins, payments and bookings from scratch every time) and a platform build (business features out of the box, but you design within its limits).

Headless removes the choice. We hand-build the front end with no template and no platform constraints, then pull content, e-commerce, bookings, memberships and payments from Wix through its APIs. You get a site that looks and behaves exactly as designed, sitting on infrastructure Wix maintains.

What it means for your business

• Design freedom without the rebuild. Routine business functions (checkout, bookings, member logins) come ready-made, so budget goes into the parts that make you money instead of reinventing a payment flow.
• You update your own content. Your team edits in a familiar dashboard. Nothing routine needs a developer, and nothing they change can break the design.
• Enterprise infrastructure, no server admin. Global CDN, auto-scaling, DDoS protection, SSL and 99.99% uptime, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant, maintained by Wix rather than billed as your hosting problem.
• One backend, not five subscriptions. Content, e-commerce, bookings, events, memberships and payments run through a single business manager rather than a stack of plugins stitched together.
• No plugin debt. The front end is code we wrote and understand. There is no library of third-party add-ons quietly ageing into your next security problem.

When we recommend it, and when we don’t

Headless is not automatically the right answer, and we will tell you when it isn’t.

Being certified across both bespoke and Wix development is precisely what lets us give you that answer straight, rather than selling you the only thing we know how to build.

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See what we’ve built

Every website in our portfolio was designed and built by the Cirrus team: no shortcuts, no generic layouts. From construction industry sites to healthcare businesses, retail to professional services.

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