Service
Web design
We design and build websites by hand, for businesses that need the site to bring in work rather than just exist. No page builders, no templates, no monthly licence for plugins you never asked for.
Most small business websites fail for the same three reasons, and none of them are about looks. They load too slowly on a phone. They do not appear when someone searches for the service in the town where the business operates. And they never tell the visitor what to do next.
Our entire process is organised around fixing those three things first, then making it beautiful. In that order, because a gorgeous site nobody can find is decoration.
Decide the one thing the site is for. Then remove everything standing between a visitor and that thing.
What is included in every build
- Custom design and hand-written code. Our own homepage transfers in about 2.6 KB compressed, and Google PageSpeed Insights scores it 91/100 for performance, 100/100 for SEO and 100/100 for best practices on mobile — that is what clean code buys you.
- Mobile-first. Designed for a phone on mobile data first, then scaled up to desktop.
- One clear enquiry path, with WhatsApp as a first-class option because in South Africa it converts far better than an email form.
- Search-ready foundations — proper page titles and descriptions, structured data, sitemap, and a Google Business Profile set up for you.
- Hosting, domain and SSL configured, including email migration planned so your mail never goes down.
- Analytics and conversion tracking, so you can see where enquiries actually come from.
How the process runs
- Discover. A free call about the business, the customers, and what is costing you enquiries now. You leave with a direction whether you hire us or not.
- Blueprint. Structure, messaging and technical approach agreed before design starts. Fixed quote and fixed delivery dates, in writing.
- Build. A live staging link from week one, so you watch it come together instead of waiting for a reveal.
- Launch. Hosting, SSL, analytics and search indexing handled, then everything tested twice. Launch day should be boring.
- Grow. Monitoring, backups and improvements, fed by real search data each month.
Pricing
- Quoting
- Individually, fixed up front
- Typical build
- 2–4 weeks
- Scope changes
- Quoted separately, approved by you
We do not publish packages, because a five-page brochure site and an online store are not the same job and pretending otherwise means someone overpays. You get one number before any work starts and that is the number you pay. Payment plans are available — ask on the call.
You own everything
Domain, hosting, code and advertising accounts are registered in your name. If you move to another provider we hand it all over without argument. We built this business partly because we kept meeting people whose previous provider held their domain hostage.
See it working: RPSM Construction and Motorman FS are both live, both built by us, both still maintained by us.