Striped Horse

CMS Website Development Services

Build a CMS website that gives your team more control without limiting design, performance, or growth. Striped Horse provides CMS web design and development services for businesses that need a flexible, scalable website that is easy to manage and built around real content workflows.

From content architecture and reusable components to custom functionality, integrations, and migrations, we create CMS solutions that work for both the people managing your website and the customers using it. We work across leading CMS platforms and recommend the right approach based on your business goals, content needs, and technical requirements.

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Our CMS Development Services

A CMS should make managing your website easier, not create another technical bottleneck. Our CMS development services combine strategy, CMS web design, development, content architecture, and integrations to create websites that are flexible for your team and intuitive for your users.
Whether you are building a new website, improving an existing CMS, or moving to a new platform, our CMS-focused web development services are tailored to your content, workflows, technical requirements, and long-term business goals.

CMS Web Design & Development

We design and develop CMS websites as one connected experience. Our web design services cover UX, responsive page layouts, and reusable design systems, while our development team builds the CMS structure behind them. The result is a website that looks polished, performs reliably, and remains easy for your team to manage.

Custom CMS Development & Customization

We customize established CMS platforms around your business requirements with tailored components, templates, functionality, content structures, plugins, and editing experiences. When more advanced functionality is required, our custom web development services can extend the CMS beyond its standard capabilities.

CMS Architecture & Content Modeling

A scalable CMS starts with a clear content structure. We define content types, fields, relationships, reusable components, permissions, and publishing workflows so your content stays organized and your website can grow without becoming difficult to manage.

CMS Migration & Replatforming

Outgrown your current CMS? We move websites to platforms that better support their content and business needs while carefully handling content transfer, URL mapping, redirects, metadata, integrations, and technical SEO considerations throughout the migration.

CMS Integrations & API Development

Your CMS should work with the rest of your technology stack. We connect websites with CRMs, ERPs, marketing platforms, eCommerce systems, analytics tools, payment solutions, and custom APIs to reduce manual work and keep your systems, content, and data working together.

CMS Maintenance & Support

Your CMS needs to evolve as your website and business change. We provide ongoing development, updates, troubleshooting, performance improvements, security maintenance, and new functionality to keep your website reliable and ready for growth.

CMS Platforms We Work With

There is no single best CMS for every website. The right choice depends on your content, internal workflows, integrations, functionality, and plans for growth. We work across leading CMS platforms and help you choose the technology that fits your business today without limiting where your website can go next.

WordPress Development

WordPress is a flexible choice for content-rich websites, editorial teams, and businesses that need extensive customization. Our WordPress development services combine custom design, development, integrations, and structured content management to create websites that are easy to update and ready to grow with your business.

Webflow Development

Webflow is well suited to design-driven marketing websites that need visual flexibility and straightforward content management. Through our Webflow development services, we create responsive, performance-focused websites with reusable components and structured CMS collections that help marketing teams publish and update content efficiently.

Shopify Development

For businesses where content and commerce need to work together, Shopify provides a flexible platform for managing products, content, payments, and customer experiences. Our Shopify development services include custom storefronts, integrations, migrations, and functionality tailored to the way your business sells online.

Drupal Development

Drupal is a strong option for organizations with complex content structures, advanced permissions, multilingual requirements, or more demanding technical needs. Our Drupal development services support scalable CMS websites with custom functionality, integrations, migrations, and structured publishing workflows.

Framer Development

Framer is a strong fit for startups and growing brands that want a modern, design-focused website with fast publishing and simple content management. We use it to create polished marketing websites that give teams greater control over day-to-day updates while maintaining a consistent visual experience.

Squarespace Development

Squarespace works well for businesses that need a professional, easy-to-manage website without the complexity of a larger CMS implementation. We customize the design, page structure, and content experience around your brand so the finished site feels tailored rather than built from a standard template.

Our CMS Website Development Process

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Discovery and Strategy
We start with your business, your goals, and the audience you are designing for. We research your market, review competitor sites, and audit your current site if you have one, so the design brief is grounded in evidence rather than assumptions.
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Site Architecture and Planning
Before anything gets designed, we map the sitemap, page hierarchy, navigation, and conversion paths, along with a clean URL structure. This is where the site's logic gets decided, so every later design decision has a foundation to stand on.
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Wireframes and UX

We translate the architecture into wireframes that define layout logic and user flows for every key page. This is your first review point: you see and shape the structure while changes are still fast and cheap to make.
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Custom Visual Design

Our designers create brand-aligned design concepts and develop them into complete, polished mockups. You review and approve the designs before development begins, so what goes into the build is exactly what you signed off on.
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Development

We bring the approved design to life through custom web development, built on the platform that fits your project and fully responsive across devices. Clean code and fast load times are part of every build, so the finished site performs as good as it looks.
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QA and Testing

Before go-live, we test across browsers and devices, run performance checks, and complete a full pre-launch SEO review. Nothing ships until the site works everywhere your visitors will be.
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Launch and Ongoing Support

We handle launch end to end, including redirect mapping so your existing rankings carry over cleanly. After go-live we stay available for refinements and support, and our marketing team can take over analytics setup and ongoing optimization when you are ready to grow.

Strategy Before Development

Most agencies jump straight to building. We start by understanding your content operations, your team, and your long-term goals before we recommend a platform or write a line of code. The CMS decisions that matter most happen before development begins, and getting them right saves significant time and cost down the road.

Custom, Not Cookie-Cutter

Every CMS we build is tailored to the business it is built for. Custom components, purpose-built workflows, and integrations specific to your stack. We do not take a template, rebrand it, and call it done. You get a system designed around how your team actually works.

Design and Development Under One Roof

Your CMS design and your CMS build are handled by the same team from day one. No handoff between a designer and a separate development agency, no inconsistencies between the mockup and the final build, and no finger-pointing when something does not line up.

Built to Scale

We structure every CMS so new pages, content types, integrations, and functionality can be added over time without rebuilding the foundation. Whether you are launching with twenty pages or two hundred, the architecture is designed to grow with your business.

Editor-Friendly by Design

A CMS your marketing team cannot figure out is a liability, not an asset. We build and configure every system with the non-technical user in mind, intuitive editorial interfaces, clear content structures, and hands-on training at handoff so your team can manage the site confidently from day one.

Performance and SEO Ready

Site speed, clean URL structures, Core Web Vitals, mobile responsiveness, and technical SEO requirements are considered from the start of every full CMS website build. Your site should have the technical SEO foundation it needs from the day it goes live, rather than requiring a separate optimization effort to fix fundamental issues later.

Long-Term Support

We are not the kind of cms development company that disappears after launch. Flexible retainer support, ongoing performance monitoring, and continuous improvements are available from day one so your CMS keeps working as hard as your business does.

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Why Choose Striped Horse as Your CMS Development Company

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

"They're great in every category, and not only the work they do is great, but they are very accommodating and communicative. I was very fortunate to have Danielle leading the web development team-- it was no easy task to take over a year-long project along with a bunch of new devs to work with into a working product in less than two months' time. One of the challenging project-wise for our university website project and she got the team doing good work and managed to get where we need to be. I will continue to work with her!"
Bryce Chapman
Bryce Chapman
Marketing Communications Director, Gallaudet University
"They helped to make our website redesign a success. Danielle was a very quick communicator and patient with our team throughout the entire process. She was knowledgeable and always able to clearly answer my (many!) questions. Our team is very happy with the outcome of our new website. I would recommend Striped Horse to anyone looking for web design services."
Whitney Novellino
Whitney Novellino
Director of Marketing, Magview
I can't say enough good things about working with the Striped Horse team in designing a new website for our Center at Stanford. They were fantastic -- really responsive, creative and solutions-oriented, hard-working and on-the-ball in all aspects of managing and executing a complex project like this. Their rates are quite reasonable given the incredible value you get from the work. And the outcomes are terrific - they created a great-looking, user-friendly site designed to optimize for our goals. My strong recommendation is: do not delay, and try to get the Striped Horse team to work with you on your project! You can't do better, and you won't regret it.
Jason Solomon
Jason Solomon
Executive Director, Stanford Center on the Legal Profession
“They ask all the right questions, understand the requirements and put forth their excellent design skills and problem solving to deliver above expectations. Would be thrilled to work with them again!"
Bianca Penaloza
Bianca Penaloza
Pledge 1%
“Danielle was fantastic. Quality, knowledge, customer service and communication exceeded expectations. I would recommend her in a heartbeat and will be using her again at some point in the future.”
Maxwell Hogan
Maxwell Hogan
League Commish
“They produced a beautiful landing page, were very quick to respond and really made the whole process very simple. They will be re-doing my entire website shortly. You won't be disappointed when you hire them.”
Joshua Johnsonc
Joshua Johnsonc
Paul L. Johnson Interiors inc.
“The team did everything wonderfully!! Talented and creative professionals, exceptional communicators and efficiently worked, I really hope to engage with them again.”
Charlie Skinner
Charlie Skinner
CEO, EMSI
"The team rocks! They're super efficient and gets things done, is highly knowledgeable, and taught me quite a lot about the process of building my site. I'd recommend them to anyone in a heartbeat."
Alec Holcomb
Alec Holcomb
Owner, AlecHolcomb.com
"The team is amazing. Filled with visionaries and helped problem solve for all our our company needs. Will definitely use them again."
Nirav Patel
Nirav Patel
Owner, Complete Balance Solutions
"They have a can-do attitude that makes the process much easier & effective, it was a pleasure to get quick responses and support for all our issues and needed changes to the new website. I will definitely approach again in our next project!"
Yoni Eyal
Yoni Eyal
Sequoia Life Settlements
"The team delivered a fantastic design. The designs not only looked good but they actually performed well. They produced tangible results (ie. more conversions)."
Devon Charles
Devon Charles
Lead Marketer, Bluebearry
"Amazing in every sense! Worked with me to get exactly what I wanted, even when I changed my mind; was patient; took initiative; was creative. The list goes on and on. I will definitely hire again for future needs!"
Blakely Hull
Blakely Hull
Blakely Hull, Realtor

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