Custom Web Design & Development
We build websites that look great, work perfectly on all devices, and convert visitors into customers. We care about strategic design and building user experiences that drive business results.
Our Work
What goes into every site.
Every engagement is scoped around what your business actually needs. Here's what we can bring to yours.
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Choosing the right platform.
The platform is a business decision, not a matter of taste. Three questions settle it: who will update the site once it is live, what the site has to do for the business, and how much it needs to grow. We build on Webflow, Framer, Shopify or in code, and we explain the choice, and the reasons for it, before any work starts.
Webflow
Webflow is our choice when a marketing site has to stay current and your team wants to run it. It gives us full control of the design and gives your people a content system they can update without a developer, so news, listings and team pages do not date the day after launch. It is the platform behind most of the sites in our success stories: Barrow Group, Boardwalk Estate, Robbergbay Shopping Centre, Drovers Vet Hospital and both ADOWA sites.
Framer
Framer suits a leaner site that a small team wants to own outright. Editing stays simple, which makes it a good fit for a firm that would rather change its own pages than send us a request. When Orca Risk and Orca Finance became Orca Group, we built the new website on Framer for exactly that reason: so the team can run and update it themselves.
Shopify
Shopify is the answer when the website has to sell. Products, payments and subscriptions are what it was made for, so we design and build the brand experience on top of a commerce engine that already handles the hard parts properly. When Reset Collective turned an in-person studio into an online class library, we built their subscription platform on Shopify.
Custom code
A custom build is right when no platform does the job well: an unusual integration, functionality a platform cannot offer, or the need for full control over speed and structure. This website is one, built on Astro with a content system of our own. Custom work takes longer to build and to change, so we recommend it when the business case is there, not by default.
Already on another platform? Moving does not mean starting again. When we moved Drovers Vet Hospital from WordPress to Webflow, years of their writing came across with it, so nothing they had built was lost.
The method behind our builds is written down too. In why we’ve embraced Relume for every website build we explain how a site starts from a library of professionally designed components, already responsive, accessible and tested across browsers, rather than from a blank page. That frees our time for what makes your site yours: the brand, the message and the journey to an enquiry.
It is not a template. The components are the structure; the typography, colour, spacing and motion that make a site look like your brand are designed for you every time. It also means the changes you ask for after launch are quicker to make, and less likely to break something elsewhere on the site.
Success stories from this work.
Frequently asked questions.
Anything from a few thousand rand for a template to millions for enterprise builds, which is why we quote every site as a fixed fee agreed upfront. Our projects typically range from R50,000 to R500,000 depending on scope, with a cost estimate on the discovery call.
Webflow, Framer, Shopify, Astro and fully custom-coded builds, chosen for what your business needs rather than what we feel like using. This site itself is built on Astro. The Webflow website design for Barrow Group and the Shopify build for Reset Collective show the range, and we explain our component workflow in why we use Relume for every website build.
That is the brief we design to. Structure, message and calls to action come before decoration, and we rebuilt our own site around that lesson. If your current site is underperforming, start with why your website isn’t converting, then look at what launch-ready looked like for Boardwalk Estate.
The foundations are, on every build: clean structure, titles and descriptions, structured data, fast load times and mobile performance. Ongoing SEO campaigns are scoped separately when you need them.
We agree the timeline upfront with the fee. A focused marketing site moves in weeks; larger platforms with content, e-commerce or multiple audiences take longer, like the two Webflow websites for ADOWA.