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Websites
built by hand.

Every page written by hand on a design-token system, with no page builder, no plugin stack and no monthly platform fee. The result loads in under a second and the files are yours forever.

Design

Design that earns the click

Design starts with what the page has to achieve, not with a template. Everything is built on design tokens (colour, type and spacing defined once and referenced everywhere) so twenty pages stay consistent and a rebrand takes an afternoon instead of a quarter.

  • Art direction and page design
  • Design-token system (colour, type, spacing)
  • Component library you can extend
  • Responsive from 320px to ultrawide
Designer working across dual monitors

Build

Hand-coded, not assembled

Static HTML and CSS, or Shopify when you need a cart. No WordPress to patch, no plugin that breaks on update, no subscription that goes up every year. Pages are just files, which is why they're fast and why nothing can hack them.

  • Static HTML / CSS builds
  • Shopify theme development
  • Core Web Vitals as a build target
  • Accessible markup and keyboard navigation
Code on a dark editor screen

Brand

Identity that survives contact with reality

Logo, palette, typography and the rules that hold them together, delivered as design tokens, so your brand guidelines and your website are literally the same source of truth and can never drift apart.

  • Logo and identity design
  • Colour and type systems
  • Brand guidelines document
  • Asset kit for print, social and web
Colourful design work on a studio monitor

Handover

You own everything

Every file, on your hosting, in your account. A one-command deploy script so changes go live in seconds, and documentation written for a human rather than a developer.

  • Full source files handed over
  • One-command deploy to your host
  • Plain-English edit documentation
  • Optional retainer for ongoing changes
A tidy laptop workspace

What a R5,000 template site
doesn't include.

A cheap site isn't a scam, it's a different product. This is what tends to be missing at that price, drawn from the rescue-guide articles people end up writing after it goes wrong.

  • A domain registered in your name, not the developer's, so it can never be held for ransom the day you want to leave
  • Full admin access from day one, not an "editor" account with the real settings hidden from you
  • Every cost stated up front, not a quote followed by a separate invoice for plugin licences and hosting mark-ups
  • Documented deployment, so if I ever disappeared tomorrow, any competent developer could pick it up without a rescue job
  • Files and code you actually own, not a template licence that stops working the day you stop paying rent

Packages
& prices

Real numbers, publicly. Fixed price per project, never hourly, so the number you agree is the number you pay. If your job doesn't fit a package, I'll quote it properly rather than bend one.

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Launch

Launch Site

Look like you're already winning, live in three weeks.

R29,500 Fixed price · about 3 weeks R5,400/moover 6 months, hosting included · R32,400 total

Choose it when: You're a new or growing firm with no site, or one that's quietly costing you work. You need credibility fast and you don't have a brand problem yet.

What's included

  • Up to 5 pages, custom designed
  • Design-token CSS system
  • Mobile-first, sub-1-second load target
  • Contact form with spam protection
  • GA4 and conversion event tracking
  • SEO head, sitemap, robots, structured data
  • Favicon and social share image
  • Deployed to your hosting, all files handed over
  • 1 revision round · 30 days of post-launch fixes

Not included

  • Logo or brand identity from scratch
  • Copywriting (light editing only)
  • Ecommerce or payments
  • Photography or custom illustration
  • Ongoing changes after 30 days
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Scale

Rebuild & Replatform

Everything the old site should have been, minus the platform bill.

R85,000 – R145,000 Fixed price · 5–8 weeks from R8,500/moover 12 months, hosting included · R102,000 total

Choose it when: You have a site that's slow, expensive to change or actively fighting you, and traffic you can't afford to lose in the move.

What's included

  • Everything in Launch, plus:
  • Information architecture and sitemap workshop
  • Up to 15 pages, or a full Shopify theme build
  • Component library your team can extend
  • Content migration from the old site
  • Redirect map, your rankings survive the move
  • Full technical SEO and schema markup
  • Conversion events on every call to action
  • Enforced performance budget
  • 2 revision rounds · 60 days of support

Not included

  • Writing all page copy (structure and editing included)
  • Custom application functionality
  • Ongoing SEO after handover
  • Product photography
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Enterprise

Multi-Site System

One design system. Every site on it. Your team can run it.

From R220,000 Scoped per project · 8–14 weeks from R22,000/moover 12 months, hosting included · R264,000 total

Choose it when: You run several sites, regions or brands and they've drifted apart, or an internal team needs to publish without breaking the design.

What's included

  • Everything in Scale, plus:
  • Shared design-token library across all properties
  • 2+ sites or 25+ pages
  • Region and language variants
  • Documented deploy pipeline
  • Internal team training and governance SOPs
  • WCAG accessibility pass
  • 90 days of support

Not included

  • Bespoke web application development (see Business Systems)
  • Ongoing content production
  • Translation and localisation copy
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No VAT is charged (not VAT-registered), so the price shown is the price you pay. Paid monthly there is no deposit: the same amount every month from the start, over 6 months on builds under R85,000 and over 12 months above that, with the total always shown. Paid once it is 50% to start and 50% on completion. Website and store builds paid monthly include managed hosting for the first year. Care runs with no lock-in, 30 days notice. Other retainers have a 3-month minimum, long enough for the work to show. UK and other international clients are quoted in local currency at local rates , ask for that price list.

Start here if you're not sure

Digital Audit, R12,000

Find out what's actually wrong before anyone quotes you to fix it. A fixed-scope review of your website, search presence, systems and operations, delivered as a written, prioritised plan you own outright and can take anywhere. Most people book this instead of a proposal, because a proposal tells you what I want to sell and an audit tells you what you actually need.

Credited in full against any project over R60,000 booked within 60 days , so if we work together, it costs you nothing.

What you get

  • Technical review of your site, speed, structure, mobile, accessibility
  • Search visibility check and keyword gap analysis
  • Analytics and conversion tracking audit, is your data even trustworthy?
  • Systems and operations review, where the manual work is hiding
  • Written report, prioritised by impact and effort, with rough costs
  • 60-minute walkthrough call

No plugins. No builders. No platform rent.

Fast

Nothing to load

No database query, no plugin chain. The page is a file, so it arrives instantly and Google rewards it.

Cheap

Runs on the smallest plan

Nothing to patch, nothing to license, no annual price increase from a platform you don't control.

Yours

Portable forever

Every file in one folder you own. No export limits, no lock-in, no hostage negotiation to leave.

From the blog

Straight answers to the questions people actually ask before they call.

Insights

How much does a website cost in South Africa?

Real South African website pricing, from R5,000 template sites to R150,000+ custom builds, and what actually changes the price.

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Wix vs hiring a web designer

A honest comparison of DIY site builders and hiring a designer, focused on the trade-off nobody mentions: your time versus your money.

Read it → Insights

How to redesign your website without losing your rankings

Website redesigns cause 30-60% organic traffic loss when done carelessly. Here's the checklist that actually prevents it.

Read it →

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that's fast?

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