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Websites & web applications

Websites and web applications, built around your actual workflow.

Design and build the website or the application behind it. That covers the interface, the frontend, the backend, the content management, the integrations, the testing, and getting it safely into production.

Beneath the interface

What makes a good web app?

It helps people finish a task, protects the workflow behind it, and stays manageable after launch. Explore the qualities Anito designs, builds, and checks with you.

Explore a quality to see how Anito builds it
APP ANATOMY01 / 06
InterfaceClear action · readable form · useful feedback
DeliveryPages, images, requests
Business rulesRoles, permissions, validation
Data & connectionsRecords, integrations, recovery
StructureReusable parts, documented decisions
OwnershipCode, accounts, operating instructions
Illustrative architecture. Your project defines the parts it needs.

01 / Easy to use

People can finish what they came to do.

A clear next step, readable screens, and forms that explain what needs fixing. Your customers and staff should be able to complete the main task on a phone or a desktop.

How Anito builds it

Anito maps the user journey before designing the screens. The team defines navigation, mobile layouts, loading, empty, and error states alongside the main workflow.

How you check it

Review the screen designs, then complete the agreed journey in the test environment. Include keyboard use and form errors in the acceptance criteria.

What you reviewUser flows + responsive screen designs
APP ANATOMY02 / 06
InterfaceScreens, forms, navigation
DeliveryPage delivery · images · data requests
Business rulesRoles, permissions, validation
Data & connectionsRecords, integrations, recovery
StructureReusable parts, documented decisions
OwnershipCode, accounts, operating instructions
Illustrative architecture. Your project defines the parts it needs.

02 / Responsive

The app respects your time and connection.

Pages should load without unnecessary weight, and actions should give useful feedback while work is happening. Speed needs to be checked on the devices your users actually have.

How Anito builds it

The technical plan addresses image handling, what the browser downloads, and how the app retrieves data. Performance is reviewed before launch against the conditions agreed for your project.

How you check it

Ask for the measured pages, device and connection settings, findings, and remaining issues. Agree on performance targets in the scope.

What you reviewPerformance review + documented findings
APP ANATOMY03 / 06
InterfaceScreens, forms, navigation
DeliveryPages, images, requests
Business rulesIdentity → permission check → allowed action
Data & connectionsRecords, integrations, recovery
StructureReusable parts, documented decisions
OwnershipCode, accounts, operating instructions
Illustrative architecture. Your project defines the parts it needs.

03 / Controlled access

The right people can do the right things.

A customer, a staff member, and an administrator can need very different access. A hidden button alone does not protect a record.

How Anito builds it

Anito defines roles, privileged actions, and data boundaries during design. The backend, the service behind the screens, checks permissions and validates incoming information.

How you check it

Test the agreed roles, including attempts to read or change records they should not access. Record defects and limitations before release.

What you reviewPermission rules + role-based test results
APP ANATOMY04 / 06
InterfaceScreens, forms, navigation
DeliveryPages, images, requests
Business rulesRoles, permissions, validation
Data & connectionsValidate → save → confirm, or explain the failure
StructureReusable parts, documented decisions
OwnershipCode, accounts, operating instructions
Illustrative architecture. Your project defines the parts it needs.

04 / Ready for failure

A failed request has a planned next step.

Connections drop and other services go down. Your app needs a defined response so users know whether an action completed and what to do next.

How Anito builds it

The team defines validation, error behavior, and duplicate handling for the agreed workflows. Recovery, backups, monitoring, and support responsibilities are written into the applicable scope.

How you check it

Review QA results for invalid inputs and failed requests, plus the release and rollback instructions. Agree which recovery scenarios must be demonstrated.

What you reviewFailure-case results + recovery instructions
APP ANATOMY05 / 06
InterfaceScreens, forms, navigation
DeliveryPages, images, requests
Business rulesRoles, permissions, validation
Data & connectionsRecords, integrations, recovery
StructureInterface ↔ business rules ↔ data
OwnershipCode, accounts, operating instructions
Illustrative architecture. Your project defines the parts it needs.

05 / Built to change

The next change has a foundation to build on.

Your business will change. The next developer needs to understand how the software fits together, and your editors need a safe way to update the content they own.

How Anito builds it

Anito documents architecture decisions and system boundaries. Reusable page templates and content management are included where your publishing workflow calls for them.

How you check it

Review the architecture notes and configuration instructions. If a CMS is included, have your editor update an agreed content type before acceptance.

What you reviewArchitecture notes + content-editing handover
APP ANATOMY06 / 06
InterfaceScreens, forms, navigation
DeliveryPages, images, requests
Business rulesRoles, permissions, validation
Data & connectionsRecords, integrations, recovery
StructureReusable parts, documented decisions
OwnershipYour repository · your accounts · operating notes
Illustrative architecture. Your project defines the parts it needs.

06 / Yours to operate

You can run it. You can take it elsewhere.

Your ability to operate the app should survive a change of provider. That takes access, instructions, and an honest record of what still needs attention.

How Anito builds it

Source code is tracked in version control you own. Handover covers the repository, hosting and service accounts, configuration, deployment, and known limitations. Ongoing support is agreed separately.

How you check it

Check your account access and walk through the operating documentation. Confirm who handles incidents and releases after launch.

What you reviewYour source code + account inventory + runbook

These are delivery commitments. Your proposal names the applicable features, checks, targets, and support coverage.

The Anito advantage

Quality you can inspect.
Ownership you can exercise.

When comparing development companies, ask what you will be able to review before you accept the work. Anito makes that evidence part of delivery.

You review working software

Milestones include an environment you can open and test. Acceptance criteria make the conversation specific: what works, what failed, and what remains.

See the delivery process

The builder does not approve the build

Developers implement the change; QA checks the agreed workflows and failure cases. Nobody at Anito signs off on their own work. You review the recorded results before acceptance.

Meet the company

Your next team gets the thinking, too

Code, configuration, architecture decisions, and operating instructions are part of handover. Ownership is a delivery requirement, with support responsibilities agreed in writing.

Review the handover commitments

Anito vs. AI / vibe coding

An app that works needs more than a convincing demo.

AI can help build useful software. Skilled developers can use it responsibly, and an AI-built app can be production-ready. The question is what has been understood, tested, and handed over.

Here, “prompt-only delivery” means accepting generated software because it appears to work, without engineering review or recorded acceptance checks. This comparison concerns that practice, not everyone who uses AI.

Where AI-assisted prototyping fits

Exploring an idea, trying a layout, or making a disposable demo to discuss with users. For a low-risk experiment, a full custom development engagement can be more than you need.

What you hire Anito to take on

The work around the code: understanding the business rules, designing the system, checking it separately from the build, planning the release, and handing over what you need to operate it. That work takes time and budget.

01A demo versus your daily workflow

Prompt-only delivery: what remains unproven

A convincing screen can show the intended journey. That alone does not establish that permissions, real data, or exception cases work.

Anito: the delivery commitment

Your workflows and business rules become written acceptance criteria. You review working milestones against those criteria before accepting delivery.

Ask any builder, including Anito: Can my team complete the whole task with representative data, including the exceptions?

02Security beyond the sign-in screen

Prompt-only delivery: what remains unproven

Generated code can include authentication and security checks. Their presence does not establish that each role is blocked from the records and actions it should not access.

Anito: the delivery commitment

Roles, data boundaries, and privileged actions are defined in the scope. QA checks the agreed permissions and records defects. Independent security audits are scoped separately.

Ask any builder, including Anito: Show me a test where one customer tries to access another customer's record.

03Someone checks the builder's work

Prompt-only delivery: what remains unproven

AI can generate tests and review code. If the same unexamined assumptions drive the implementation and its tests, a passing result can miss the actual business requirement.

Anito: the delivery commitment

The person who implements a change does not approve it. QA checks agreed workflows, devices, and failure cases; your team reviews whether the result supports the business.

Ask any builder, including Anito: Who checked this besides the builder, and what did they actually test?

04The day something goes wrong

Prompt-only delivery: what remains unproven

A successful deployment shows that a version went live. It does not establish what happens after a failed integration, an incomplete update, or a release that needs reversing.

Anito: the delivery commitment

Failure behavior and release responsibilities are documented. Handover includes deployment and rollback instructions. Monitoring, backups, recovery checks, and support coverage are agreed in writing where included.

Ask any builder, including Anito: What is the recovery plan, and who is responsible for carrying it out?

05Your next change and your next provider

Prompt-only delivery: what remains unproven

AI-built apps can use exportable code and accounts you own. Verify that access and documentation are actually supplied; neither ownership nor lock-in follows from the tool's label.

Anito: the delivery commitment

You own the source repository. Architecture decisions, configuration instructions, the account inventory, and known limitations form part of handover so another team can take over.

Ask any builder, including Anito: Could another developer run and change this with the code, access, and instructions I receive?

The honest limit of this comparison

Anito does not promise bug-free software, automatic compliance, or that every AI-built app needs a rebuild. These are delivery commitments, not a measured claim that Anito outperforms every alternative. A provider who supplies the same engineering discipline and evidence should be evaluated on that evidence.

Already have an AI-built app? Start with an assessment of what works, what is missing, and what can be kept.

Explore an assessment of your existing app

Why review still matters: GitHub's own guidance says generated code should be reviewed and tested, even when an agent includes automated security checks. Read GitHub's responsible-use guidance

Discuss the standards your app needs

Sound familiar

When people bring us this.

  • Your website no longer looks like the business you have become.
  • The work is being held together by spreadsheets, email threads, and one person who remembers everything.
  • Your team needs to edit content without breaking the design or waiting on a developer.
Tell us what you need

You get a reply from a person, with an honest read on whether this is the right service for the problem you described.

Scope of work

What the team can actually deliver.

Your statement of work names which of these are in your project. Here is what each one involves before anybody signs anything.

Business websites and content platforms

Company sites, service catalogs, editorial sites, and campaign pages with an interface designed for you rather than bought from a theme store. Deliverables can include the content model, reusable page templates, CMS setup, redirects so your existing search rankings survive, metadata, and a handover your editors can actually use.

Customer portals and internal applications

Software with accounts, roles, forms, approvals, dashboards, and reporting. Each workflow gets named in the scope along with its business rules and the data it creates or changes, so nobody discovers in week nine that the approval step was never agreed.

Frontend, backend, and the parts in between

Build the interface and the services behind it, or connect to a backend you already have. The technical plan defines how the systems talk, what gets validated, what happens on error, and exactly where your responsibility ends and a third party’s begins.

Interface design that survives a phone

Page structure and user journeys first, then screens for desktop and mobile. Navigation, forms, loading states, empty states, and error messages get decided before they become code, because those are the screens people actually live in.

How it runs

How the engagement works.

We start with the people who use it and what they are trying to get done, not with a technology choice. The pages or workflows get mapped, the interface gets designed, then the agreed scope gets built in stages you can open and click through. A CMS goes in when your content workflow actually needs one, not by default.

The proposal names the page templates, features, integrations, who supplies content, and which devices are supported. Hosting and ongoing maintenance are agreed separately so you are never surprised by either.

See how a project runs, stage by stage

Related work

Milyon Digital

Explore the project
Actual Milyon Digital homepage designed and developed by AnitoLive website, designed and built by Anito

Anito designed Milyon Digital’s website and built it, connected the Next.js frontend to WordPress for publishing, and wrote a custom plugin for structured service and team content.

Before it is accepted

What gets checked, and by whom.

QA runs these before anything is called done. The person who implemented a change is not the person who approves it.

  • Complete the main user journeys on the agreed browsers and screen sizes.
  • Check form validation, permissions, and what happens when something fails.
  • Check content editing, metadata, redirects, and image handling where those are in scope.
  • Review performance, the release steps, and every unresolved defect before launch.

The money question

What moves the number.

How many page templates and how many workflows matters far more than how many URLs. We also look at permissions, moving old content across, integrations, reporting, and the condition of anything that already exists. The proposal separates design, build, testing, and launch so you can see where the money goes.

See how we build a quote

Straight answers

The things people are too polite to ask.

The proposal records cost, milestones, what you are responsible for, and how the work gets accepted. These answer the rest.

Can you build more than a company website?

Yes. Customer portals, internal tools, dashboards, and full business applications are all in scope. Celestra and FMMS in our work section are both application projects rather than websites.

Do you only build on WordPress?

No. Anito is a custom development company. A decoupled WordPress CMS is one good option when your team needs to publish content, and it is what we built for Milyon Digital. The architecture follows what the project needs.

Can you work with the site we already have?

Yes. We look at what exists first and tell you honestly whether extending it, repairing it, or replacing it is the better use of your money. Sometimes the answer is that the current site is fine and the problem is elsewhere.

Need something else?

Mobile applicationsSoftware rescue & repairMaintenance & improvementsSystems & API integrationsWorkflow & AI automation

Next step

Describe the problem. Get a straight answer back.

Tell us what is broken, what you are trying to build, or what you have been quoted by somebody else. You get back a plain reply about what we would do, what it depends on, and whether you need us at all.

Tell us what you need

Replies come from a person. No automated sequence, no pressure, and an honest no when that is the right answer. Please leave passwords and customer data out of the form. Access gets arranged separately and safely.