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Websites that earn attention and survive contact with reality
Design is the part people notice. Speed, structure and being able to edit your own content are the parts that decide whether the site still works a year later. We do both halves.
What a website build includes
One fixed price, agreed before anything starts. No line items appearing later.
Design made for your business
Layout, typography and colour chosen for what you sell and who buys it — not a purchased theme with your logo dropped on top. You approve the design before a line of code is written.
The words, written
We draft every page. You correct and approve. Most website projects stall for months waiting on copy that never arrives, and the ones that launch anyway go live with placeholder text nobody fixes.
Built mobile first
Most of your visitors arrive on a phone, so that is where we start and what we test on — real devices, not a resized desktop window.
Speed you can verify
We hand over the measured load time and Core Web Vitals at launch. Not a promise that it “feels fast”. Slow sites lose visitors before the page paints, and Google measures it too.
Yours to edit
Logins, a short written guide, and a content setup simple enough that you will actually use it. No lock-in, no hosting you cannot leave.
Structured so it can rank
Semantic markup, schema, clean URLs, a sitemap and an llms.txt from day one. This is the part a design-only studio skips and an SEO agency later charges you to retrofit.
How the build runs
Four stages. You see the real thing on a real link throughout, not a slideshow of mockups at the end.
1 · Understanding what the site has to do
Who buys from you, what they need to see before they trust you, and what one action the site should produce. A site that looks lovely and produces nothing has failed, however nice the typography is.
2 · Design
We design the key pages properly — the home page, a service page, the contact path — and show them to you before building. Changes at this stage cost nothing. Changes after launch cost real money, which is why we front-load the disagreement.
3 · Build
Hand-written front-end, kept deliberately light. Every page is checked on a phone, a tablet and a desktop, with a keyboard, and at the text size a visitor with poor eyesight will use.
4 · Launch and handover
We move the domain carefully, keep the old URLs redirecting so you lose nothing you had already earned, submit the sitemap, and hand you the logins and the guide. Then we stay reachable.
What makes a website slow, and why we care
Speed is not a vanity metric. It is the first impression and a ranking input at the same time. The usual culprits are predictable and almost always avoidable:
- Heavy page builders. Drag-and-drop tools ship enormous amounts of code to render a layout a few lines of CSS could do.
- Unoptimised images. A photo straight from a phone can be larger than every other file on the page combined.
- Plugin sprawl. Each one adds scripts that run on every page, including the ones that do not need them.
- Third-party tracking. Analytics, chat widgets, pixels, fonts from four different providers. Each is a connection to somewhere else before your content appears.
A working example: the page you are reading is hand-built on the same approach we would use for you. Scroll to the proof section on the home page and it measures its own load time, live, in your browser.
If you want the detail, we wrote about this: why your website is slow and what it is costing you.
Who this suits, and who it does not
It suits you if you want a site that looks deliberate rather than templated, you have a real business behind it, and you intend to still be running it in three years.
It does not suit you if you need something live by Friday for fifty euro, or if you want hundreds of pages of automatically generated filler. Both are legitimate needs. Neither is what we do, and we will say so rather than take the work and disappoint you.
Website design questions
How much does a website cost?
It depends on the number of pages, whether the content exists and how much is custom. We quote a fixed price after a free first look, in euro or US dollars, so you never get an open-ended bill.
How long does it take to build a website?
A small brochure site is usually a few weeks once the content is ready. Larger builds take longer. We give you dates before you commit, and the thing that delays most projects is waiting for text and images, which is why we write the first draft for you.
Will I be able to edit the website myself?
Yes. You get the logins and a short written guide, and you can change text, prices and images without calling us. There is no lock-in and no hostage hosting.
Do you build on WordPress?
Only when it genuinely suits the job. A brochure site is usually faster and safer as a hand-built static site. If you need a blog you will update weekly, or a shop, a content system earns its place. We tell you which and why, rather than defaulting to whatever we prefer.
A site nobody finds is an expensive business card
Building the thing is half the job. If you want the other half handled by the same people, rather than handed to an agency that will blame your developer, read about our SEO and visibility work — or take both together.