Sanity Website Development
Sanity CMS is an increasingly popular option for companies looking for headless alternatives to traditional CMSs like WordPress.
As a Sanity agency partner, we specialize in building and maintaining modern marketing and eCommerce websites for small to mid-market companies in the United States. Whether you are looking to transition to Sanity for the first time or are looking for a partner who can manage your existing Sanity website, we might be the right fit for you.
PRICING:
- New site development: $15,000-$100,000 view pricing guide
- Sanity website takeover + management: $1,850 - $3,700/month
- Sanity website overhaul + improvements: $3,700-$5,550/month
Sanity website examples
See some our best examples of Sanity websites for clients in various industries.
Kaivac
Kaivac provides fleets of smart cleaning technology to companies in many different industries nationwide. We have supported them through a monumental website redesign, advertising, and technical support.
OhioSE
Ohio Southeast Economic Development (OhioSE) is a regional nonprofit dedicated to helping the economy and communities of Ohio’s Appalachian region flourish. OhioSE partnered with USDP to build a website that clearly and compellingly showcases its wealth of resources for site selectors, businesses, and local residents.
Schneider Geospatial
Schneider Geospatial is a leading GovTech company that offers GIS-integrated solutions (map locations) which enhance the efficiency of local governments across the United States. However, their old branding and website made them look more like a dated public utility company. We partnered with them to create a sharp new brand and website to match.
Thomistic Institute
The Thomistic Institute offers a variety of programs and publications online and across the country. We used a message-based approach to develop their site map as well as other key navigational elements throughout their website.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Headless CMSs get back to the root of content management by handling content and content only. Unlike a “traditional” CMS such as WordPress, which encapsulates all parts of a website, a headless CMS exists separately from a website and only handles its content. The result is a more flexible backend experience designed specifically for content-focused marketing teams.
For a deeper dive into the advantages of a headless CMS, check out Sanity’s Headless CMS 101.
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To put it simply, Sanity is simpler, lighter, and faster. As mentioned above, Sanity is a headless CMS and isn’t an all-encompassing platform like WordPress. While this may sound like a limitation, it is not. This gives marketers the flexibility to build the right site for their team. There is no need to adapt a company’s content marketing goals to fit the constraints of a rigid platform like WordPress.
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Sanity offers different plans that scale with your needs. A simple Sanity Studio can be built and hosted with Sanity’s free plan. Most companies or developers with growth goals are best served with Sanity’s $15/user/month Growth plan. Enterprise-level customers with expansive content, security, and distribution needs can work with a Sanity representative for customized pricing.
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Yes. Presentation Mode allows you to browse through the frontend of the website and make edits in a more intuitive fashion. Learn how presentation Mode works.
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Sanity can be used with a variety of frameworks, but it is commonly used with many of the most popular modern Javascript frameworks, like Next/React, Vue, and Svelte/Sveltekit.
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Yes. GEO is heavily content-driven, so using Sanity’s Content Operating System is a large advantage compared to traditional CMSs. Learn more.
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A Content Lake is Sanity’s alternative to a relational database. Rather than using a traditional table-oriented SQL database, Sanity’s Content Lake stores data in JSON as documents that don’t have to be molded into a table structure. The result is a flexible data storage solution made to meet the demands of the modern content-focused ecosystem. Learn more.
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Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) is Sanity’s proprietary query language used for pulling data from the Content Lake. See how it works.
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Kind of. The Sanity Studio backend is able to be self-hosted, but the Content Lake where data is stored must be hosted by Sanity.
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Yes! While Sanity is not a traditional eCommerce platform and does not handle payment processing or shipping, many top retailers like Tecovas and MR MARVIS use Sanity as an essential piece of their online store experience. When easily integrated with platforms like Shopify or Big Commerce, Sanity gives content teams the tools they need to build convertible product pages. Learn more.
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Sanity is a common choice for companies that are embracing the future of content-first marketing including Tecovas, Shopify, Nike, and more.
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Sanity is best for forward-thinking companies who have a content-first strategy and are supported by an in-house technology team or an agency.
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Yes. We offer managed hosting on the AWS infrastructure (such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and others). However, we are also happy to recommend other hosting solutions if they make more sense for your needs.
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In a way, yes. We use Managed Service Agreements, which provide month-to-month support. They are similar to a retainer but they are non-contractual and more flexible. Read more…
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While our preferred framework is Sveltekit, we can also build and manage Sanity websites built with Next.JS, React, and others.
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Most website frustrations stem from the way the technology was implemented, but it is possible that Sanity is not the right tool for you. View this checklist to find out.