Custom Web Development
Marketing sites, content platforms and bespoke builds. Written cleanly in PHP and vanilla JavaScript where that is the right answer, and in a framework where it genuinely is not.
Digital ProductsWeb DevelopmentTechnology
We design and build software that holds up under real use.
The Life Code is a digital engineering studio. We work with businesses that need their website, store or internal tooling to be fast, dependable and genuinely maintainable — not simply launched.
- 01 Web Development
- 02 Digital Products
- 03 E-commerce
- 04 Custom Solutions
- Strategy
- UX / UI
- Development
- E-commerce
- Performance
- Automation
- Integrations
- Maintenance
01 Positioning
Technology should make a business simpler, faster and worth more.
Most projects do not fail on ideas. They fail on vague scope, slow decisions, and a codebase nobody wants to open six months later.
We work the other way round. Small, honest scope. Decisions written down. A build your next developer can read without a handover call. It is a less dramatic way to run a project, and it is the reason our work stays useful long after launch.
See how we work
- Server response budget
- 120ms
- Held as a build constraint, not a hope.
- Lighthouse performance target
- 90+
- Measured on the launch build, on mobile.
- Accessibility baseline
- AA
- WCAG 2.2 AA as the starting point.
- Dependencies we cannot maintain
- 0
- Every library earns its place or goes.
02 Services
What we do
Six practices, one team. Most engagements combine two or three of them.
UI/UX & Digital Design
Interface design grounded in your real content, real data and real constraints — not a template filled in afterwards.
E-commerce Development
WooCommerce and Shopify builds tuned for catalogue scale, checkout clarity and page speed that survives a busy sale.
Web Applications
Portals, internal tools and dashboards that replace spreadsheets, shared inboxes and manual process.
Performance & Optimization
Core Web Vitals, server response time, caching and image strategy — usually on a site that already exists and cannot be rebuilt.
Digital Automation
APIs, third-party integrations and scheduled jobs that quietly remove repeated manual work from a team’s week.
03 Selected work
Recent builds
Representative project concepts, shown to illustrate the kind of problems we take on and how we present them. Client references available on request.
Northline
Fintech Platform
A lending operations platform: applicant intake, document review and decision tracking in one interface, replacing four disconnected tools.
Velora
Commerce Experience
A 2,400-product storefront rebuilt around search, filtering and a faster checkout, with a design system the in-house team maintains.
Atlas Studio
Digital Platform
A publishing platform for a studio with a large archive: structured content, editorial control and a front end that stays fast as the archive grows.
Meridian
Operations Tooling
Internal tooling for a logistics team: scheduled imports, exception queues and a release pipeline that deploys without downtime.
04 Why The Life Code
Five things we will not compromise on.
Not values on a wall. These are the decisions that shape every estimate we send.
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Built for performance.
Speed is a constraint we design against from the first wireframe — a page budget, not an optimisation pass bolted on at the end.
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Designed around users.
Every screen starts from a real task someone is trying to finish. If a feature does not help finish it, it does not get built.
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Developed to scale.
Structured code, documented decisions and a predictable file layout, so the next developer — ours or yours — can move quickly.
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Clear communication.
Scope in writing, weekly progress you can see, and direct access to the people building the work. No account layer in between.
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No unnecessary complexity.
We choose the smallest technology that solves the problem properly. Fewer moving parts means fewer things to maintain and pay for.
05 Process
Five stages, no surprises.
The same sequence on a one-page site and a six-month platform. Only the depth changes.
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01
Discover
We start with the business, not the brief: what the site has to earn, who it has to serve, and what is currently in the way.
- Stakeholder calls
- Technical review
- Analytics & search audit
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02
Define
Scope, structure and success measures agreed in writing before any design work begins, so nothing important is discovered late.
- Scope document
- Sitemap & content model
- Performance budget
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03
Design
Layout, typography and interaction designed with your real content, reviewed in the browser rather than as flat pictures.
- Wireframes
- Visual design
- Design system
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04
Develop
Clean, semantic front-end work and considered server-side code, built in reviewable stages on a staging environment you can use.
- Front-end build
- Back-end & integrations
- Accessibility & QA
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05
Launch & Improve
A checked, monitored launch — then measurement and a short list of the improvements worth making next.
- Launch checklist
- Monitoring
- Iteration plan
06 Capabilities
The tools we actually use
We are deliberately boring about technology choices. The right stack is the one your team can still run in three years.
Languages
- PHP
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- SQL
- HTML5
- CSS3
Platforms
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Shopify
- Laravel
- Headless CMS
Front-end
- Vanilla JS
- React
- Next.js
- Design systems
- Motion
Infrastructure
- cPanel / Apache
- Nginx
- MySQL
- REST & GraphQL
- Cloud storage
- CI & automation
07 Engineering standard
Fast by default.
Built for what comes next.
Performance, accessibility and maintainability are not add-ons we quote separately. They are the baseline every build has to clear before it goes live.
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Responsive
Designed per breakpoint, not scaled down from desktop.
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Accessible
Keyboard paths, focus states and contrast checked by hand.
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SEO-ready
Semantic structure, clean metadata, valid structured data.
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Performance-focused
Budgets for weight, requests and response time.
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Maintainable
Readable code, documented decisions, no dead weight.
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Secure
Validated input, escaped output, hardened forms and headers.
Targets we build to
- Lighthouse performance
- 90+
- Server response
- 120ms
- Cumulative layout shift
- 0.00
- Render-blocking scripts
- 0
08 About
A studio built around the work, not the pitch.
The Life Code works across web development, digital product design and technical consulting for businesses that have outgrown whatever they started with.
We work in small senior teams and stay directly involved from the first call to launch. That means fewer projects at once, faster decisions, and no distance between the person you brief and the person writing the code.
We are equally comfortable taking on a new build, inheriting someone else’s codebase, or being the technical team a marketing department has never had.
- Direct access to the people building your project
- Written scope, estimates and decisions
- Code and documentation handed over in full
Next step
Have an idea?
Let’s build what comes next.
Start a Project
Or email us directly at nguyenphihai1910gmail.com
What happens next
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We read it ourselves
A reply from the person who would actually run the build, usually within one business day.
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A short call
Thirty minutes to understand the problem properly before anyone estimates anything.
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Scope in writing
Deliverables, timeline and cost in a document you can hold us to.
09 Contact
Tell us about the project.
A few lines is enough to start. We read every enquiry ourselves and reply with honest next steps — including when we are not the right studio for it.
- Response time
- Usually within one business day
- Helpful to include
- What you are building, a rough timeline, and any existing site or system