We create & maintain top-notch Umbraco websites
Let us make the process of building and maintaining your website not only painless but rewarding too.
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Website support
and maintenance
We are there for you to support and enhance your Umbraco website whenever you need us, so you can rest assured that your website is in safe hands. From regular maintenance, to performance and security updates, we are your trusted partner who is always there to provide advice and assistance when needed. We are experts in Umbraco upgrades.
- SLAs with quick response times
- Dedicated, allocated time in our schedule
- Automated ticketing software
- Monthly work logs - so you can see where your time has been spent
- A trusted partner who is on hand to provide advice and support when needed
Website
development
We’re highly experienced in developing Umbraco websites and have a passion for integrating with lots of different APIs and third party systems. Umbraco is highly flexible and very editor friendly, making it our chosen platform for website development.
- Detailed and thorough scoping and requirements gathering
- Fixed price quotes with full transparency
- Highly configurable, ‘editor friendly’ websites
- Website design services
- Integrations with third parties
- Vast experience in the website project lifecycle
- Delivering on time and on budget
Website
health check
Is your website slow, throwing errors or do you just want to make sure your website has been implemented following best practices? We offer a website health check to make sure your website is performing to its best ability.
- Detailed code review and audits
- Problem solving of existing issues
- Performance audits
- Page speed and accessibility reviews
- Testing and quality assurance
- Development life cycle improvements and consultancy
Agency
Partnerships
As well as working directly with clients, we relish the opportunity to work in partnership with other digital agencies to support them with their clients and projects.
- We work as an extension to your team, providing additional resource you can tap into when needed
- We can work under white label or be client facing
- Additional Umbraco knowledge and expertise are brought to your business
- Better experiences for your clients
- Development of solid relationships through collaboration and communication
We'll take it from here
Brace Digital in numbers
30 years development experience
20 years Umbraco experience
10 years Azure experience
12 specialist experts
Spar
Build, MaintenanceSPAR is the world’s largest food retail chain consisting of 12,322 stores, 34 countries. And in the UK alone, over 2,400 stores, 50,000 friendly staff and a turnover of £3bn+.
Since early 2016, we have worked with SPAR in maintaining their website, including developing custom integrations with third parties. Since working with SPAR, we have implemented flexible load balancing which hugely mitigates website downtime, particularly during the busier periods.
The SPAR website is a highly customisable and flexible Umbraco implementation with Umbraco Forms integrations with Dotmailer and FreshMail. The website also integrates with SPAR’s back office system to retrieve store data such as location, opening hours and services. This is then relayed to the website visitors with clever GEO Location store search functionality.
Technology and discipline:
- Front-end development
- Back-end development
- Umbraco 7
- Umbraco Forms
- Microsoft Azure with auto-scaling
- Blob storage with CDN
- Flexible load balancing
- Geo Location search
- Custom third party integrations
Frazer-Nash
Build, MaintenanceFrazer-Nash is a leading Engineering Consultancy. They offer a range of innovative engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable using a broad expertise across many knowledge bases.
We have been working with them since 2017 helping them to maintain their site, and occasionally doing larger bits of development; keeping things up to date and in-line with their needs as a team.
In early 2020 the Frazer Nash team came to us and briefed us on the development of a brand new website, from UX and design all the way through to delivery and continuing maintenance. They also wanted it delivered to the business at pace, early in 2020.
We set about scoping in full and achieved delivery within a tight timeframe, and their newly built site went live in Version 8 of Umbraco in June of 2020. Their new site achieves the very best needed for a fast moving and innovative business, and also houses an integration with the clients’ job board, retrieving jobs from an API.
Technology and discipline:
- UX
- Design
- Front-end development
- Back-end development
- Umbraco 8
- Umbraco Forms
- Microsoft Azure with auto-scaling
- Blob storage with CDN
- Flexible load balancing
- Job board integration
Scott Brownrigg
Build, MaintenanceScott Brownrigg are an international design practice leading the industry in expertise and experience. Their mission is to enrich lives through the built environment. They serve clients who are looking for exceptional architecture and are responsible for some of the most interesting buildings achieved globally.
In 2020 Scott Brownrigg wanted to support their 3 websites on an ongoing basis. Although we’ve only worked with them since then, we are starting to make small improvements across their business in the online environment, working with their marketing department to begin to evolve the online offering. We also now host their sites too, allowing us to respond quickly and effectively if needed.
Technology and discipline:
- Front-end development
- Back-end development
- Umbraco 7
- Hosting
Railway Children
Build, MaintenanceRailway Children are a charity that work in the UK, India and Africa that support street children that have run away from home or have been forced to leave home.
Website visitors can make single and monthly donations integrating with a payment gateway.
In June 2017, Railway Children approached us to host and support the website going forward. Since then we’ve also done some work to improve the way opt-in questions are asked inline with GDPR and redesigned and redeveloped the website’s navigation to better signpost pages and give the site a mini refresh.
Technology and discipline:
- Front-end development
- Back-end development
- Umbraco 7
- Umbraco Forms including complex custom workflows and field types
- Payment gateway integration
- Continuous integration
- Hosting
Better experiences start here
We are a web development agency based in Chester, UK, building beautiful, feature rich websites and applications while providing ongoing website support with quick response times. With our vast experience of the web project life cycle, we will ensure the delivery of your web project is pain free and fully satisfies your needs.
Brace Digital was born out of a joint passion for delivering high level web solutions with a firm focus on high quality, delivering on time and on budget.
We are your digital partner, your Umbraco specialists, your web development team or an extension to your in house team.
We support & delight
Proactivity and expertise is baked into everything we do. We strive to make every client feel there is never a problem.
Only the best will do
We go the extra mile; our processes are there for a reason and we’re worth every penny.
Honesty is the best policy
We’re transparent with our client and partners, and we’re upfront about being upfront.
Meet the leadership team
Ben McKean
Founding DirectorBen has been involved in web development for over 20 years, half of that time has been spent developing with Umbraco. Prior experience includes insurance software, FinTech and for the last 12 years, recently heavily involved with developing Umbraco websites. All of this experience has given Ben a great understanding of the web project lifecycle from ideas inception to go live.
Ben is an Umbraco Certified Master and has extensive experience of project scoping, bespoke solutions, database design and complex integrations.
Away from his desk Ben can be found acting as a climbing frame for his two boys, running or cheering on his beloved Manchester City.
Rick Lynch
Founding DirectorRick has been web developing for 15 years and has been building sites in Umbraco for the majority of those years. He has experience working with some of the industry leaders of the digital agency world, gaining invaluable commercial experience and developing sites for a range of blue-chip companies, multinational market leaders and well-known household brands.
Rick is an Umbraco Certified Master and has extensive experience in web architecture, Microsoft Azure (including load balancing) and intricate third-party integrations.
When Rick is away from his desk, he can be found chasing after his three children who certainly keep him on his toes and just about makes time for following Everton FC.
Kate Johnston
Client Services ManagerKate has worked in client service roles for over 12 years, with the past 5 years spent in Project Management. Alongside being awarded the PMQ qualification from the Association of Project Management, Kate has vast experience in delivering projects across many different industries for clients ranging in size from start-up companies to global brands. She has experience in working with both the WordPress and Umbraco platforms within digital agencies.
Kate is passionate about building long term relationships with clients, with an emphasis on trust and reliability as our Client Partner. Providing exceptional service while delivering high quality work is what Kate is focussed on to always exceed client expectations.
When not in the office Kate can be found spending time with her family, going on long walks by the sea or enjoying meals out with friends.
" Brace Digital are quick to respond and have a great deal of technical expertise that we value"
SPAR UK Ltd
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