Ghost Development · Durham
Ghost Development in Durham
Building publications on Ghost for Durham organisations, where memberships and email are part of the platform rather than plugins bolted onto it. Subscriptions, paid tiers, member-only content and newsletter delivery are native — which is the reason to choose it over a general content management system, and the reason it fits publishing rather than general websites.
Why this comes up
The problem
A newsletter, a members area and a paid tier are being assembled from three separate services alongside the website.
What you get
What we deliver
- Membership tiers and access rules configured against the publishing model
- Newsletter delivery set up properly, including sending domain authentication
- Theme built or adapted, since presentation is where customisation happens
- Content structure planned using tags, since Ghost's taxonomy is deliberately simple
- Integrations connected where analytics or payments need external systems
- Editorial workflow established for however many people publish
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what ghost development would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Ghost
- Handlebars
- Node.js
- Stripe
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Publishing
- Media companies
- Professional services
- Education
- Charities
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Ghost Development in Durham — common questions
- What does Ghost do that a general CMS does not?
- Memberships and email natively. Paid subscriptions, member-only posts and newsletter sending are built in rather than assembled from plugins and third-party services, which removes an entire category of integration work for a publication.
- Where is it a poor fit?
- Anything that is not fundamentally a publication. The content model is deliberately simple — posts, pages and tags — so a site needing several structured content types with relationships between them is working against the platform rather than with it.
- How much does the sending setup matter?
- A great deal, because deliverability determines whether the newsletter arrives. Domain authentication configured properly is what keeps messages out of spam folders, and it is the part most likely to be skipped during a hurried launch.
- Can the design be fully customised?
- Yes — themes are templates you control, so presentation is genuinely open. What is fixed is the underlying content model, so customisation is about how content appears rather than about introducing new kinds of content.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Ghost Development in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise