ZACODERS
Technologies

The right tool for each job — and the reasons behind it.

We don't choose technology by fashion or by what we'd find most interesting to build. We choose it by what the project needs to do, how long it needs to last, and who will run it afterward. A technology that's easy to hire for and well documented is often worth more to a business than one that's marginally faster.

Approach

How we choose

What does it need to do?

Content-led sites and data-led systems have different needs

Who will run it?

Editors need a usable CMS; systems need maintainable code

How long must it last?

Mature, widely used technology outlives trends

Can others maintain it?

You own the code — someone else should be able to work on it

What does it connect to?

Integrations constrain choices

What does search need?

Content must be present in the served page, and pages must be fast

Websites

Websites

WordPress

Our default for content-led business websites and WooCommerce stores: widely supported, easy for teams to update, and strong in search when built lean.

WordPress development

Custom and full-stack builds

For sites needing functionality a CMS handles poorly — chosen and confirmed per project rather than sold as a fixed stack.

Business Systems

Business systems and applications

Laravel

Our framework for custom software, CRMs, ERPs, portals and web applications — suited to database-heavy, rule-heavy, permission-heavy systems.

Laravel development

Databases

Relational databases for business data, designed from the data model up.

Database design
Search

Search and measurement

Structured data (schema.org), XML sitemaps, analytics and conversion tracking, and Google Business Profile.

Worth knowing

A note on our own site

This website is built with Next.js — a good fit for a fast, content-focused marketing site. That's a different choice from what we build for clients, and deliberately so: a marketing site is a content problem; a business system is an engineering problem. We choose the tool that fits each, rather than building everything on one stack for consistency's sake.

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