The Template Trap
Templates promise speed. Pick a theme, swap the logo, launch by Friday. And sure, it works. Until the client asks for something the template didn’t anticipate.
At TechTailors, every site is hand-coded from scratch. Not because we enjoy suffering, but because every business has unique needs that deserve unique solutions.
Performance You Can Measure
A hand-coded Astro site on Cloudflare’s edge starts answering in milliseconds: Google’s PageSpeed test clocks our own server at about 10 ms. Templates carry the weight of features you’ll never use: carousels nobody clicks, libraries that add 200KB to parse a date.
We ship only what matters: semantic HTML, scoped CSS, progressive enhancement. Your visitors notice the difference even if they can’t name it.
Run a Lighthouse audit on any TechTailors site. We hold a perfect 100 across all four categories: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
Ownership From Day One
When we write every line, there’s no black box. Buy out the code and it’s yours to keep, with no reverse-engineering, no vendor lock-in and no dependence on a theme marketplace that might disappear. Leave without a buy-out and your accounts, content and data still go with you.
That’s the hand-coded difference: faster sites, cleaner code, and genuine ownership.