Web Design
What kind of site do you need?
Pick the one that sounds like you. Most people know within about five seconds. A single page for something new, or twenty with a shop, a blog and bookings.
Which One Do You Need?
Design or Development?
People use the words interchangeably and they are not the same job. The easiest way to tell them apart is to ask what the thing has to do.
Web Design
Show people what you offer
Your shop front. It tells people who you are, what you sell, and how to reach you. It takes bookings, sells products, and keeps your news current.
- Brochure and business sites
- Online shops and product catalogues
- Galleries, menus, blogs, contact forms
- Built on a theme, customised to your brand
- Weeks, not months, and a fraction of the cost of a custom build
Web Development
Run the business itself
The machinery behind the login. Staff and client accounts, records, workflow, invoicing, reporting. Built from scratch because nothing off the shelf does what you do.
- Client and staff logins
- Systems that manage the actual work
- Invoicing, bookings, stock, reporting
- Mobile and desktop apps
- Built from nothing, and priced accordingly
Still not sure? Tell us what it has to do. If the answer is “show people what we offer and take a booking”, that is design. If it is “run the place”, that is development. Ask us →
No Small Print
Every Site Comes With
Works on a phone
Most of your visitors will never see your site on a desktop. Every page is built for the small screen first, then the big one.
You can edit it yourself
WordPress, set up cleanly. Change the text, swap a photo, add a post. No code, and no phoning us to fix a typo.
Fast local hosting
Pure SSD servers in South Africa through HostingZA, our own hosting arm. Your visitors are here, so your site should be too.
Found on Google
Titles, descriptions, structured data, sitemaps and Search Console connected before you go live. The basics, done properly.
Proper email
you@yourbusiness.co.za, working on your phone and your laptop. IMAP and SMTP, webmail, and forms that actually arrive.
The padlock
Free SSL, issued and renewed on its own. Google needs it, and so does anyone deciding whether to trust you.
Yours to keep
No template licence, no monthly fee to a page builder, no lock-in. If you ever leave, it all goes with you.
A person answers
Not a chatbot, not a queue in another timezone. The people who built it, in Somerset West, on the phone.
What We Build On
WordPress, By Default
Not because it is the only thing we know. Because for this kind of site it is the one you can still run yourself after we hand it over.
WordPress
The default for anything with content you want to change: pages, blog posts, galleries, menus. Millions of people already know how to use it, and that includes whoever you hire next.
WooCommerce
The default for shops. Products, stock, checkout, shipping, South African payment gateways. Ten products or five hundred, same system.
A theme, made yours
We start from a solid theme and customise it to your brand rather than reinventing the wheel at your expense. Your colours, your type, your layout, your photography.
Plain HTML and PHP
Sometimes the honest answer is smaller. A business-card site that never changes does not need a CMS. Straight HTML, with PHP behind the contact form, is faster and cheaper to run.
Already on something else? Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, Joomla, a hand-rolled thing from 2014. We work in those too. Tell us what you are on →
Already Have a Site?
We Take Things Over
Plenty of this work starts with something that already exists and is not working.
Your site is slow
Visitors leave before it finishes loading, and Google notices. We find out why and fix it, or rebuild it properly.
You cannot change a word
Every tiny edit is an email to someone who takes a week. We hand it back to you with an editor you will actually use.
It was built on a page builder
Divi, Elementor, WP Bakery. Heavy, slow, and hard to escape. We rebuild it lean and bring your content with us.
It looks like 2016
It was fine once. We redesign it around what the business needs now, not what the template allowed then.
Hosting and Email
We Keep It Running Too
We do not hand you a folder of files and wish you luck. Your site lives on our own hosting, and your email works, because both are ours to answer for.
Hosting from R50 a month
- Pure SSD cPanel servers, in South Africa
- Free SSL, issued and renewed automatically
- Free migration from whoever has you now
- Plans from 1GB to 15GB, one site to ten
- Free .co.za domain on the larger annual plans
Email that behaves
- you@yourbusiness.co.za, on every device
- IMAP and SMTP, so it works in Mail, Outlook or Gmail
- Webmail when you are on someone else’s machine
- Contact forms delivered through Resend, not the shared mail queue that lands in spam
- Domain registration, DNS and pointing handled. You never need to learn what a CNAME is
Sites We Have Built
Real builds for real businesses.
Free Estimate
Tell Us About the Business
A few questions, no obligation, and a real person reads every one. Not sure what you need? Say so. Sometimes one page is all it takes, and we would rather build the right thing than the big thing.