Breaking Frontiers

We specialise in sustainable, bespoke website design. Low carbon development means fast websites and a better overall user experience. Our lightweight CMS and super efficient front ends, all developed in-house and from the ground up, reduce resource consumption and improve load speeds. Our sites are hosted on servers powered by 100% renewable energy.

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what is sustainable
web design?

Sustainable web design is all about doing more with less. It involves creating a site that’s been fine-tuned to use fewer resources, cutting down on the energy needed to run it without compromising performance or style. Our sustainable web designers in Exeter can help strip out unnecessary data, compress images, and streamline code, making sure your website loads quickly and efficiently, which isn’t just better for users — it’s better for the environment too.

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Powering a Greener Future

Building a website with low-carbon goals in mind is one thing, but we can also improve the sustainability of your existing website with some clever clean-up techniques. So whether you’re all-in for the clean and green approach or just want to optimise your current site, we’re the go-to agency for sustainable web design in Exeter. Clean websites aren’t just great for the planet either - they offer a much better and more enjoyable user experience too. Put simply, we believe sustainable web development is the non-negotiable future of web design, and it’s a core focus of our work.

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Low Carbon as Standard

Sustainable web design is all about doing more with less. It involves creating a site that’s been fine-tuned to use fewer resources, cutting down on the energy needed to run it without compromising performance or style. Our sustainable web designers in Exeter can help strip out unnecessary data, compress images, and streamline code, making sure your website loads quickly and efficiently, which isn’t just better for users — it’s better for the environment too.

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sustainable, award-winning web
design from Exeter

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A low-carbon, sustainable website needs a host of smart fixes. We start with the design and architecture - minimising image size and data-heavy graphics without ever compromising on style. A deliberately straightforward layout reduces aimless browsing, and we use caching at all levels to eliminate unnecessary computation. Finally, the amazing CloudFlare ensures the performance of all our UK-hosted sites is the same wherever the user is in the world.

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Next, bespoke website development is key. We use a minimal WordPress CMS to run the back end, whilst the visible pages use modern, efficient protocols, only loading data when needed - happily resulting in a speedy and efficient browsing experience. This slimmed-down build also makes your site agile - both in its ability to display on a number of devices but also pull data from a virtually limitless range of sources.

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Finally, our sites are hosted with Krystal, the UK’s greenest hosting provider, powered by 100% renewable energy. It’s even a non-profit organisation, meaning any surplus is reinvested into protecting the planet. Just like us, they’re committed tech-savvy environmentalists who are focused on producing the best product whilst supporting the environment. We think they’re fab - and we know you will too.

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Testimonial

We're thrilled to work with the Illicit team, who feel like an extension of our own. They built us a knockout website, delivering exactly what we trusted them to.