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Design & Development Studio

What we make.

Six kinds of work, one studio. Most projects are two or three of them together. Whatever the mix, the price is fixed before we start, from $499.

One person designs it, builds it and sees it live. No account managers and no handoffs, so the person who answers your email is the person who wrote the page.

Six names, in the order they usually happen.

01The wall

Six names, one wall.

All six are cut into the same face of stone. The light walks along it from the left, each name takes the leaf as the light arrives, and the detail sits underneath.

  1. Custom web design

    Every layout starts from your business, not from a theme. You approve the look before we write a line of code.

    • No themes, no page builders
    • Approved before it is built
    • Right on every phone
  2. Full-stack development

    Front end, back end and database, built together so the site can actually do something rather than just sit there.

    • Forms and enquiries
    • Booking and lead capture
    • Dashboards
  3. Online stores

    Product pages, cart and checkout, put together to move somebody from interested to paid without a detour.

    • Product pages
    • Cart
    • Checkout tuned to convert
  4. Speed & SEO foundations

    Fast pages, clean structure and search-friendly markup, decided while the site is built rather than bolted on afterwards.

    • Fast pages
    • Clean structure
    • Search-friendly markup
  5. Mobile apps

    Some ideas belong in an app rather than a browser. We design those, build them, and publish them for you.

    • Designed and built
    • App Store
    • Google Play
  6. Care & updates

    Hosting help, content changes and improvements, for as long as you want them. You own everything either way.

    • Hosting help
    • Content changes
    • Improvements

Whichever of the six a project needs, the price is agreed before we start. From $499 Live in about a week

02In detail

How each one gets done.

The short version is on the wall. This is the longer one: what the work actually involves, and what you get for it.

Custom web design

Designed around your business, approved before a line of code.

We start with what your business actually does, who has to say yes, and what a visitor needs to see before they pick up the phone. The pages come out of that. They are not a template with your logo dropped into the corner.

You see the design before anything is built. When the look is right, and only then, we start writing the code. Changing a layout while it is still a design costs a conversation. Changing it after a site is built costs a rebuild, which is why so many cheap sites stay stuck with the layout they were born with.

No themes. No page builders. Nothing off a shelf.

  • A layout built around your business, not a stock arrangement
  • The look agreed before any code is written
  • Type and spacing set to your content, not the other way round
  • Right on every phone, not just shrunk to fit

Full-stack development

Front end, back end and database, designed as one thing.

A page that only sits there is the easy part. Most businesses need the site to do something: take an enquiry and get it to the right inbox, hold a booking, show a customer their own information, let you change your own prices without calling anybody.

We build the front end you look at and the back end and database behind it. Because the same person builds both, they are designed to fit each other instead of being bolted together at the end, which is where most of the quiet bugs come from.

Forms, booking and dashboards are the usual three. If your business needs something else, describe it in the brief and we will price it before we start.

  • Front end, back end and database
  • Forms and enquiry handling
  • Booking and lead capture
  • Dashboards, portals and internal tools

Online stores

Product pages, cart and checkout, built to sell.

A store has one job, and it is not to look busy. The product page has to answer the question the customer is actually asking, the cart has to not lose them, and the checkout has to be short. Everything else is decoration.

So we build those three properly first: pages that show the product the way somebody buying it wants to see it, a cart that survives a change of mind, and a checkout tuned to convert rather than to collect data nobody reads.

Stores are one of the bigger builds, and they still ship in about a week.

  • Product pages laid out to sell
  • Cart
  • Checkout tuned to convert
  • Live within about a week

Speed & SEO foundations

Decided during the build, because that is when it is cheap.

Speed and search are not something you buy afterwards. They are decisions taken while the site is being built: how much a page has to load before anybody sees anything, how the content is structured, what a search engine can actually read.

Take those decisions during the build and they cost nothing. Take them a year later and you are paying somebody to unpick a site that was put together without them.

So it is in every build, at every price. It is called a foundation on purpose. It is the thing the rest of your marketing has to stand on.

  • Fast pages
  • Clean structure
  • Search-friendly markup
  • In from the first build, at every price

Mobile apps

Designed, built, and published to both stores.

Some ideas belong in an app rather than a browser: something people open every day, something that has to live on the home screen. We design and build those the same way we build a site, starting from what it has to do.

Publishing is the part people underestimate. Store listings, review, and the developer accounts that own the app all have to be dealt with, and we deal with them. Those accounts go in your name, exactly like your domain and your hosting, so the app is yours and not ours.

  • Designed and built
  • Published to the App Store
  • Published to Google Play
  • Store accounts registered in your name

Care & updates

Optional, because you already own everything.

The day a site goes live you own all of it: the domain, the hosting, the code and the accounts, registered in your name. Nothing is tied to us. If you never speak to us again the site keeps working, and you are free to take it anywhere.

Most people would still rather not touch it. So we can set up an easy self-editing system for the parts you want to change yourself, or put you on a care plan and make the changes for you.

Already have a site somewhere else? Redesigns are welcome. We keep what works, fix what doesn’t, and migrate with zero downtime.

  • Hosting help
  • Content changes
  • Improvements
  • An easy self-editing system, if you want one
03Next

Most projects are two or three of these.

Tell us what the business needs to do and we will tell you which of the six it takes, what it costs and when it goes live. You get a fixed price and a launch date back within one business day, and you don’t pay until you’re happy.

Start a project Free, no obligation. Most projects start at $499.

Pricing

Three tiers, what is in each one, and the guarantee that you don’t pay unless you’re happy.

See the three tiers

How it works

The four steps from brief to live, day by day, with nothing dressed up.

Read the process

Idea Library

A separate place where we keep design ideas. It is not a client list, and it is not this site.

Open the Idea Library