The site looks fine, but nobody acts on it.
Visitors arrive, look around and leave, because the next step isn’t obvious or the offer isn’t clear.
Services Web development
Websites and platforms built around how your business works.
Custom sites, shops and member platforms, designed and developed in-house. We don’t build and leave: search, content and the systems behind the site are part of the job, because a site is an arm of the business, not a brochure.
You’ll recognise this
You’ll recognise this
The real work happens behind the site.
Orders, applications and enquiries end up in spreadsheets and inboxes, and someone retypes them every day.
Every change needs a developer.
So nothing changes, and the site drifts further from what the business actually does.
What we make
What you get from us.
01
Positioning and information design
What the site must do for the business, and a structure that gets each kind of visitor to the right place.
02
Design and custom development
Built for the job rather than bent from a template, fast on a phone and accessible.
03
Online shops
Payments, courier bookings, quotes and invoices, and prices checked on the server so a total can’t be tampered with.
04
Member platforms and directories
Applications, member portals, searchable directories and an admin that opens on what needs attention.
05
Search, built in
Structured data, redirects from old addresses, and guides for AI crawlers, so the site can be found by people and by assistants.
06
Care after launch
Hosting, updates and steady improvement, so the site keeps up with the business.
Where bigger work starts
The Opportunity Sprint.
Three days to find the one thing worth building in your business, and see it working before you commit a budget to it.
For a website or platform, the Sprint works out what it has to do for the business, who it serves and what it connects to, and prototypes the part that matters most before a page is designed.
You keep, whether or not we build
- An opportunity map
- A prioritised roadmap
- One working prototype
- A success measure
- An implementation plan
- A data handling note
Terms under review. Fee, participants, preparation and what you keep if you do not proceed: being settled for the repositioned offer.
How it works
From first conversation to something in use.
- 01
Understand
What the site has to achieve, who it serves, and what already exists: content, systems, search traffic worth keeping.
- 02
Shape
Structure, content and design, agreed before anything is built.
- 03
Build
Custom development with your real content, tested on the devices your visitors use.
- 04
Launch
Every old address mapped to its new one, so links and rankings carry over.
- 05
Run and improve
We look after it, watch how it is used, and keep it moving.
The work
Done before, for real clients.
Jewellery Council of South AfricaApplications, a member portal, 572 directory listings and a badge that checks a member’s status every time it is shown.Open the case 
Moissanite SAA custom store built around light: rendered stones, true-size try-on and a shop that largely runs itself.Open the case 
Mediro ICTSix capability pillars and partner paths, with editable content and consent-first measurement.Open the case Questions
What people usually ask.
Do you build on WordPress?
Where it fits. A simpler site can run well on a content management system like WordPress. Platforms with members, payments or custom logic are built custom. We will recommend one and explain why.
Will we lose our Google rankings if we rebuild?
Not if the move is planned. We map every old address to its new one before launch. On Moissanite SA, 151 old links were carried over so years of search traffic still lands.
Can we update the content ourselves?
Yes. The parts you need to change are editable, and the parts that shouldn’t change by accident are protected.
What does a website cost?
It depends on what the site has to do. We price on the outcome and the deliverables rather than by the hour, and you will have the price before work starts.
Do you host and support the site after launch?
Yes. We host and look after the sites we build, and keep improving them with you.
Do you work with clients outside South Africa?
Yes. We are based in Knysna and most of our work is already remote: briefs, reviews and sign-off happen by video call and a shared project board, with one lead from start to finish. We work with the South African arms of international groups such as Leroy Merlin, and quote in rand, pounds, euros or US dollars. South African time is UTC+2, so our working day overlaps with the UK and Europe, and we keep afternoon calls for the US East Coast. Sites are hosted where suits you, and we build for your market’s search, language and privacy rules.
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